Page 12 of Diamond in the Rough

Maddox grabbed Jake’s hip and shoved it back and forth, encouraging him to move. The angle was all wrong, but Jake did his best until Maddox shot a pleased smile down at him. He rolled them over, and the room swayed as Jake got his bearings. He was sat up, impaled on Maddox’s cock.

“Keep going,” Maddox said.

Jake lifted himself hesitantly, sinking back down and feeling the raw stretch, but then he saw Maddox’s pleased expression, and he pushed away the slight scrape of pain. Being on Maddox’s lap, riding his cock while looking him in the eye, was indescribable. There was no better feeling physically or mentally. He was riding the man he loved, driving him closer and closer to euphoria.

Jake shivered at the atmosphere between them. Electric, charged with lust but something else, something powerful and meaningful, something that made the butterflies in his stomach beat their wings, flutter up, and escape his throat with a blissed-out gasp. His cock pulsed, and cum shot from the end and landed on Maddox’s stomach. He shivered and shook after the unexpected orgasm, and Maddox smirked.

Jake steadied himself, then rode Maddox’s body, squeezing his knees into his muscular sides. Maddox came with a gasp and a shudder. Jake drank in the sight of him coming undone. He placed his palm against his tattooed chest and felt his thunderous heart. The tension in Maddox’s body suddenly vanished. He shut his eyes, and a slight smile tilted his lips.

No words were spoken in the aftermath. Jake flopped forward and rested on Maddox’s chest. Maddox wrapped his arms around Jake and stroked his thumb against the nape of his neck.

“I needed that,” Jake whispered.

Maddox held him tighter and laid a kiss on Jake’s head. “We both did.”

“Why—why don’t we just leave?”

“Leave?”

Jake nodded against Maddox’s chest, not caring about the cum or the sweat. “Right now, get our things and leave. Start somewhere new.”

“Run away?” Maddox grumbled.

“Not run away, but—but go away, leave this mess behind.”

“Sounds a lot like running away, and that’s not the Mad Dog’s way. I’m not a coward.”

Jake rested his chin on Maddox’s chest and looked up at him. “I’m not saying you are, but does your reputation mean that much?”

“Yes, it does.”

“More than me?”

Maddox stiffened beneath him, and the next thing Jake knew, he was being pushed away. Maddox’s cock slipped out of his body, and he got to his feet. “Sounds like you’re giving me an ultimatum, Jake.”

Jake shook his head and ignored the wetness snaking down his leg as he rushed after. “I’m not—”

Maddox marched to one end of the room, then turned and marched back. “Someone has gone out of their way to humiliate me, and I need to find out who and deal with them. I’m not choosing my reputation over you. I don’t need to choose when I can have both.”

Jake caught Maddox’s wrist and held on tight. “Sorry, I just want this to be over.”

Maddox exhaled, then pulled Jake to his chest. “It’s not like I haven’t thought about it, taking off, the two of us, living a life away from all this, but it’s not in my blood to let it go. I’d run away with you, but my heart wouldn’t be in it. I’d think about this. It’d drive me crazy knowing someone destroyed me, someone humiliated me, and got away with it. I…I’d push you away.”

“Then you’ve got to find them.”

“Yes, and then I swear, wherever you want to go, we’ll go.”

Jake licked his lips. “Back to the island.”

Maddox’s rumbling laugh made Jake smile. “You liked it there? The sand, the sea, the sex.”

“It wasn’t just that.”

“Then what?”

Jake thought back to the beach. The feeling deep in his chest, one he’d never felt before: he belonged with Maddox, his heart utterly won without argument.

“I’d never been so happy.”

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