The tension reverberated between them.
Kayden pushed his jeans and boxers away and kicked them off to the side. Then he yanked off his shirt. “I don’t want to take too much of your time.”
“Take all of it. Take it forever.” Little did Kayden know that forever was possible for them. The thought tightened Ward’s throat with yearning.
He pulled Kayden toward him, seeking his lips, needing to feel them on his own before they were anywhere else.
Kayden responded hungrily, trailing his hands over Ward’s shirtless chest. His wings moved restlessly when Kayden brushed against him, skin hot where it met skin, need building like a firestorm within them.
Then he went up in flames when Kayden undid his leather pants. It took some wiggling on his part, but the feel of the cool leather sliding down his legs made his breath hitch. He couldn’t get them off with his clawed feet, so he muttered a spell, and they disappeared.
“Oh, that’s handy,” Kayden said, looking Ward over. “Damn, you’re fierce and incredibly sexy.”
Kayden curled his fingers around Ward, stroking him deliberately slowly, silencing whatever Ward was about to say. His entire body trembled. Such a simple touch, and it made him feel like he was about to collapse on the floor.
He dragged Kayden over to the bed and, with a low growl, dropped onto the edge of the mattress, then groaned at the erotic sight as Kayden sank down before him.
Kayden didn’t break eye contact as he lowered his lips down—yes—right there. Ward shuddered at the wet heat enveloping him—at the soft slide of Kayden’s tongue and knowing lips. Ward leaned back on his hands as desire radiated through him.
Kayden’s actions were neither gentle nor tentative. There was urgency and hunger in every stroke and motion, and it left Ward breathless and beyond rational thought.
The realization that his mate wanted him with such fervor, that Kayden was driven to do this for him, filled his heart with happiness.
Kayden made a deep sound in his throat that sent sensations rippling through Ward’s cock. Gods, this was going to be over embarrassingly fast, but he couldn’t hold back any longer, not with such luscious friction drawing him relentlessly, impossibly deeper into oblivion—into completion—and then—
And then—
He cried out as stars exploded behind his closed eyes and spilled himself between Kayden’s lips, a sensation akin to soaring through the endless sky, weightless and unbound.
A wind roared past him, ruffling his hair. Actually, was that his wings beating frantically against empty air? He opened his eyes, and why yes, yes, it was.
Kayden kissed up Ward’s chest after swallowing everything Ward had to give, making his tail beat against the bed. Then Kayden stretched upward until their mouths tangled once more.
Ward tasted himself on Kayden’s lips.
The slickness of it, the salt and musk that was still on Kayden’s tongue, sent an unexpected thrill coursing through him. Ward pulled Kayden up, then tossed him on the bed, settling on top of him.
He relished the feel of skin against skin. His wings folded on his back, and Kayden panted against his throat, his hard length pressing into Ward.
“You’re amazing,” Ward murmured into the wavy mess of his hair. “Can I make you feel good too?”
Kayden made a desperate noise—somewhere betweenyesandpleaseandnow—and ground against Ward’s hip in helpless need. Ward reached over to the bedside drawer, yanked out a bottle of lube, then straddled Kayden as he went to work on Kayden’s straining cock.
The glide of his fingers was gentle but persistent. He wanted Kayden undone, but not too fast. He wanted to watch him come apart slowly and to savor it.
“Damn,” Kayden gasped. “You’re driving me insane.”
Ward chuckled breathlessly, reveling in the maddening power like a drug. He shifted his touch just slightly—that perfect angle—and Kayden bucked against him with a ragged moan.
“I need you,” Kayden said impatiently. “Ward, I need—”
Ward stroked Kayden hard and fast as they moved together with urgency. Kayden made another wild sound.
Ward admired the pale curve of Kayden’s shoulder against the dark sheets, his sweat-dampened hair clinging to his brow, his mouth twisted into a delirious plea for more as time slowed.
Ward kept them teetering at the brink where every breath felt like liquid flame. Then Kayden shouted and came all over Ward’s hand. It was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.
Kayden made a strangled sound as Ward licked his fingers clean.