Page 80 of A Life Imagined
No longer patient, Rayan rolled Mathias onto his back and straddled him.He took a palmful of lube and slowly lowered himself onto Mathias’s cock, taking a moment to ease into the feeling.Mathias steadied him at the waist and waited, staring up at him, his gray eyes smoldering, letting Rayan call the shots.
Rayan rolled his hips, biding his time before he started to move.Mathias captured the head of Rayan’s cock in his fist, and he thrust forward into the man’s hand as he clenched and released.Rayan moved faster as the pleasure grew, spreading through his chest and causing the heat to rise to his face.He leaned down, and Mathias slid a hand around the back of his neck, bringing Rayan’s mouth to his.
Then Mathias released him altogether and gripped Rayan’s hips.He raised his knees so that his feet were planted flat on the bed and began to slam Rayan down on his cock.Rayan groaned, the intensity of the angle sending him hurtling toward the limits of his restraint.
“Fuck—” He dug his fingers into Mathias’s shoulders, leaving marks in the skin, and was rewarded with the man’s quickened pace.His mind began to fracture as the illusion of control slipped out of reach.He thought of Mathias pressed beneath him at the motel, his lips brushing Rayan’s ear.
I’m all yours.
It wasn’t just Mathias who’d been pent-up.Rayan came in forceful arcs across Mathias’s chest, reaching as far as the man’s chin.Despite being entirely spent, his cock gave a jerk at the sheer audacity of the sight of his former capo marked with his pleasure.
Mathias drew a thumb through the slickness and brought it to his mouth.Rayan felt a shiver run through him, and he bent to kiss Mathias, tasting himself on the man’s lips.Then strong arms looped around his waist, and Rayan was swung down onto the mattress—Mathias now above him but still inside him.
Rayan moaned as Mathias began to thrust, powering toward his release.Mathias had him doubled over on his back, and Rayan’s hands clenched the sheets beneath them.Rayan’s vision blurred.He was aware of little but the merger of their bodies and how desperately he needed this man, how much he loved him.
“Yes… please—” Rayan choked out.
Mathias gritted his teeth, his lips twisting into a snarl as he came.His body gave a shudder, and he buried his face into Rayan’s shoulder.Rayan reached up to stroke the man’s hair, the wet strands sliding through his fingers.Mathias raised his head to kiss him deeply, and they lay like that, still joined, mouths pressed hard together.In the soft warmth of their embrace, Rayan found it difficult to imagine needing anything but this—Mathias beneath his fingers, in his bed.
Mathias eased himself onto his back, and they lay in a silence punctuated only by the sound of their breathing as it slowed.Mathias was the first to speak.
“Enzo was at the warehouse.”
A cold panic pierced Rayan’s insides.“Enzo Carbone?”
“The man himself.”
“For fuck’s sake, Mathias,” Rayan snapped, sitting up.“I told you not to keep this shit from me.”
“I’m telling you, aren’t I?”
“Tell me first.That’s what you should have led with.”
“I wanted to fuck you first.There’s a natural order to these things.”
Rayan let out a snort.How am I to supposed to argue with that?
He lay back and tried to curb his racing thoughts.“I presume he’s not here to clip you, because you’re very much alive.”
“They want me to head the family.”
Rayan felt as though a crate of lead had been dropped onto his chest.He realized he’d stopped breathing.When he finally spoke, he couldn’t hide the fear in his voice.He’d been too long out of practice.
“And what did you say?”
Mathias’s eyes scanned Rayan’s face.The man had him figured out.Rayan had said he wouldn’t stop Mathias from doing what he wanted, but this was the one thing Rayan couldn’t bear for him to want.
“What do you think I said?”Mathias asked.
“I know why they want you, and I know you could do it.You’d do a better job than Giovanni—hell, better than Russo even.You’d bring the whole city to its knees—I don’t doubt that for a second.This is your chance to become everything you’ve ever wanted to be, prove once and for all that you’re in an entirely different league from your father.”Rayan’s throat tightened, and he swallowed hard.“But please… don’t fucking do it.”
He turned away.He didn’t want to see Mathias’s face when he told him he was leaving.
“I said no.”
Rayan exhaled shakily and closed his eyes.“Why?”
“You know why.”
