Page 50 of Celestial Bodies

Meretrix must have caught the shift in Dacias’s face. He turned and caught sight of Julen. “I take it those puppy eyes are over him?”

Dacias nodded and was about to tell Meretrix that he needed to leave when Meretrix kissed Dacias with wild passion.

Julen

I’m going to be sick.

“That scumbag!” Souzie snapped her fingers, and Klorin rushed over to her.

Klorin looked grim. “Hi…”

“What the fuck is happening, Klorin?” Souzie asked.

Klorin shook his head. “I don’t know. That guy approached Dacias.”

Souzie wagged her finger at Klorin. “You should have stopped it! ”

“I tried,” Klorin protested.

Julen could barely hear the exchange; he couldn’t hear anything anymore. His vision narrowed in on Dacias and that…that…whoever he was kissing. His fists clenched at his sides as he gritted his teeth so hard that he thought he might chip a tooth.

Dacias saw Julen and then started kissing that boy. HesawJulen, and that was his response.

Julen didn’t feel sad anymore. He waslivid.He knew he had done wrong. He lied and shouldn’t have, but how could Dacias be so cruel? After everything that had happened between them, the fact that Dacias could be so cavalierly mean made Julen’s blood boil.

Two can play this game.

Souzie and Klorin continued to argue as Julen walked onto the dance floor. He stripped off his tunic, shoved it into the back of his trousers, and began swaying his hips to the beat of the music, naked from the waist up.

He thinks he’s the only one who can put on a show? We’ll see about that.Julen strutted about the dance floor, twirling and shaking his ass andovertly flirting with other men. Beads of sweat started falling along his chest, and he used his hand to rub it along his body. He glistened under the crystals as he danced in the most alluring way possible.

And he was succeeding. He could tell. Eyes were on him. He did a spin and snuck a peak at Dacias. His eyes were on Julen.Jealous? Good.

A man approached Julen and began dancing with him. Julen draped his arms around the man’s neck and pushed his hips into his.

The man released a hungry snarl as he wrapped his arm around the small of Julen’s back.

Julen looked at Dacias again, but he returned to talking to the blond boy.

Julen could barely contain his anger. His eyes burned. He hated this. He didn’t want to dance with this man. He wanted to make Dacias jealous, and it wasn’t working.

Julen swallowed hard and began backing up from the man. He grabbed Julen by the wrist and pulled him in. He smiled at Julen in a way that made Julen’s stomach clench.

This was a mistake. Julen hadn’t been thinking. He led this man on, and now he expected something from Julen.

He tried to smile and excuse himself once more, but the man put his hands on Julen’s ass. His fingers gripped hard, and Julen flinched at the pain.

The man leaned into Julen with his tongue sticking out, and Julen pushed his head away.

He didn’t like that. He gripped onto Julen’s wrists and forced them to Julen’s sides, then leaned in and began tonguing Julen’s face, trying to push it into Julen’s mouth.

Julen yelled at him to stop, but the man continued. He released one of Julen’s wrists to grab the back of Julen’s head. He forced Julen’s face to his, trying to shove his tongue in Julen’s mouth.

Julen started swinging with his free hand. He connected a right hook that pushed the man back, but he regained his composure and started dragging Julen to an exit.

He yelled, but the loud band drowned out his voice. Julen struggled, kicking and punching, trying to free himself from the man’s grasp. Thebastard pushed Julen’s face to his again and bit Julen’s lower lip.

Julen let out a yelp just as the man’s head suddenly moved away from Julen.

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