Page 84 of Passion and Payback

“What I was getting to,” he said, leaning forward to look at me. Wanting to be difficult, I continued staring at my phone, though my smirk gave away my intentions, “was that I was sorting through a lot in my head. And as messed up as this probably is, I realized I was more than just feeling good about killing the bastard.”

“It’s not messed up,” I said and then sighed. “Well, maybe a little, for a normal person. But everything you’ve been through has made you about as abnormal as it gets. So if you’re messed up, so am I for not thinking it’s messed up.”

“Fair enough,” he chuckled. “But it also made me realize there was more to it than just getting revenge. I’ve been feeling...I don’t know, more myself. Freer.”

“I noticed you haven’t been locking the door as much,” I said, scrolling through Reddit but not reading anything. “You also left the taser here when you went shopping yesterday. Hell, you used to carry your phone everywhere just in case, but you left that here when you went to go check the mail this morning.”

“Sometimes I forget how observant you can be.”

“Mmm, it keeps you alive.”

“Though maybe not completely observant.”

“What’d I miss?”

“The fact that the whole time we’ve been talking, I’ve been completely naked.”

I paused, lowering the phone to the couch, and turned around, no longer concerned about disturbing Clem. Hunter stood there, looking smug as he crossed his arms and stared back at me. I looked down to find he didn’t have a stitch of clothing on. As I watched, my eyes wide in appreciation, his dick began to stir, slowly getting thicker and harder.

“You have my complete attention,” I told him, not caring that I was probably a step away from drooling.

“You see,” he continued, and the little shit even reached down to wrap his hand around himself and start slowly stroking, “I realized I feel freer, less...wrapped up in the past. It’s still awful and always will be, but I’ve taken back some power. I realized I wanted more of my power back, and not just because we were going to get the other two...but I don’t want them to be able to keep any more of me than they already have.”

“I’m hearing you but not understanding where this is going. But that might be because I’m a little distracted,” I said, forcing myself to look up into his smirking face. “Which was probably the plan all along.”

“I want you...to fuck me.”

Well,nowhe had my undivided attention, and I blinked. “Wait, what?”

He smiled gently. “The only reason we didn’t do it before was because I was scared. Well, I’m done being scared.”

“I’m not sure that’s how it works,” I told him gently. “You might still?—”

“Freak out?”

“Yeah.”

“I probably will, but goddammit, I’m tired of losing out on something as great as being able to sleep with the man I love because of them. This all started because I was done letting them rule my life. Well, that includes being fucked by my boyfriend.”

It was hard to argue with logic, though admittedly, the blood necessary for thinking wasn’t exactly flowing to the right head. “I have this nagging suspicion you decided to have this conversation like this because it would be harder for me to argue with you.”

“Guilty as charged,” he said with a grin. “Now, are you going to get off that couch and come into the bedroom, or are you just going to sit there, drooling?”

“Devious,” I said with a grin, scooping up an indignant Clem and setting him onto his favorite pillow to assuage his indignation. It wouldn’t make him happy, and I’m sure he’d find a way to show his displeasure later, but that could wait. “Sorry, dude, but there’s a naked man who wants my attention, and he just called me his boyfriend, so that means I have obligations.”

“Obligations make it sound incredibly not sexy,” Hunter complained.

“You’ve got the sexy part nailed,” I said as I rounded the couch, grabbing him by the arm and pushing him against the wall. My hands slipped to the curve of his ass and grabbed it, testing to see if he really was up to the challenge of pushing pastthis final hurdle. If he was feeling any anxiety, he didn’t show it as I held him against me, squeezing his amazing ass and kissing him.

“I’d like to retract my previous complaint,” he said against my lips. “You can make obligations sexy...clearly.”

“Fuck,” I groaned as I felt him grow hard against my leg. “To think this is what I’d been missing out on all those years.”

“Well,” he said softly as I began to kiss down his neck and nibble on his collarbone. “We have time to make up for what we missed.”

His naked body enraptured me, and I didn’t try to hide it. There was so little body hair on him. What little there was glistened in the sunlight creeping through the windows. I ran my fingers through the fine hair on his stomach, leaving a trail of kisses. I gripped his hips and made sure he stayed against the wall. Leaning back, I turned my head so I could catch the head of his cock with my lips and suck him into my throat with one swift motion.

“Mmph,” he grunted in surprise, his fingers gripping the hair on my head, and groaned as I sucked him deep. I could feel his legs already shaking as he instinctively pushed forward, trying to bury himself as deeply as possible. “Was...trying to make it to the bed first.”

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