And somewhere behind us, a throat cleared.We sprang apart, looking up to see Ben and Matt standing there.

“You’ve been lying to me, little brother,” Matt said, a soft smile on his lips.“But why?I don’t care if these two are the cutest queer couple on Earth.”

Ben cleared his throat, and I was pretty sure he was blushing.“Last summer, you forced Aiden and Jay apart.They were worried you’d mix things up.”

Matt rolled his eyes.“Aiden and Jay were all over each other.I would have trusted these two to keep it more discreet.”

Ben eyed our current state meaningfully.“You sure about that?”

Matt pulled me to my feet.Ravi quickly followed.“You two, go find a hotel room to fuck in.But we hope to see you again.Any time.”

“Any time,” Ben echoed, giving me a quick, shy hug.“And text me, you have my number, right?”

“I do,” I said, grinning.“And your socials, so I can get all the latest Mages of Aleron tea.”

Ben laughed, shoving his hands in his pockets.“Of course.”

As we turned to walk back to our cabin and gather our things, I caught sight of Sutton standing near the cabin.He was staring at us with an odd look in his eyes, and it took me a moment to realize that his attention was focused on Ben.

I elbowed my friend.“You and Sutton?”

Ben snorted.“What?Fuck no.”

I glanced back at Sutton, silently hoping that he hadn’t heard any of that, but the look on his face told me maybe he had.He was gone by the time we got up to the cabin, his stuff cleared out, his mattress empty.Ben didn’t seem concerned.

But as mad as I’d been at Sutton at the beginning of the summer, all I felt for him now was pity.Something was going on with him, something that made him deny his sexuality — deny who he was.It was a relief to realize that he no longer held any power over me.

twenty-seven

Ravi

“Youcangetdeeperinside me if you put my foot up on the counter and just—” Parker wiggled his ass, making me groan.

“It’s a kitchen counter,” I interrupted, staring at the counter of his tiny kitchen.He lived in a tiny apartment over the garage of Aiden’s house, but I loved it here.My apartment was noisy, full of roommates.Here, I had Parker all to myself.Here, he’d walk around naked and tease me with his gorgeous body, as he had just a few moments ago.

That was why I was fucking him against the kitchen counter and not somewhere more sensible, like the bed.Sometimes, even I couldn’t maintain control around my gorgeous boyfriend.

I leaned forward to nuzzle into his neck, taking in his intoxicating scent and letting my teeth graze lightly against his skin.He shivered beneath me, a low moan escaping his lips as my hands found their way to the small of his back and pulled him closer to me.

“Um, yeah.”Parker tilted his head back to look at me, wiggling his ass a little to distract me.It was very distracting, honestly, with my dick inside him.I was where I belonged, held tightly by his inner muscles, snug and comfortable inside my boyfriend.I slapped his ass just because, and he moaned, going to lift his foot again.

I stopped him.“You can’t put your feet on the counter; that’s unsanitary.”

“You’re fucking me against the counter right now,” he said.“Do we have to stop and discuss sanitary stuff in the middle of sex?”

“It’s a kitchen counter!”I gasped, horrified.

“Remember, I bought you that big tub of Lysol wipes.”The cleaning supplies for his apartment had been a delightful gift.It wasn’t that he was messy, just that I had certain needs.Was he squeezing his inner muscles somehow to make me give in?

I held strong.“It’s your foot.On the place where we make our food.Why would we do that?”

“Because, jackass, I want you so deep inside me that I can feel every goddamn inch of your cock.I want your balls against mine, my body flush against your hips, so I know I have all of you.”

“Oh,” I whispered.“Is that a kink?I think I have that kink.The kink of wanting to climb inside you and stay there.”

Parker shot me a look over his shoulder.“Rav.Stop talking and fuck me.”

“Well.I have those Lysol wipes,” I said absently, lifting his leg and letting his knee rest on the counter, bracing him with his legs out wide.He’d gotten a lot more flexible since we’d returned to Stanford in August, and it was mostly because of the positions I liked to fuck him in.And he was right, like this, all spread out for me.I could drill just that much deeper.He whimpered as I backed off, pulling all the way out of him, and thrust all the way back in, feeling every inch of his body as it accepted my cock.Welcomed my cock.