Page 70 of Wellspring
Erick leaned up until he could reach Cade’s lips for another deep kiss.He was breathing a bit roughly when he finally pulled away, but then Cade was feeling pretty breathless himself.
“In the life I left behind….”Erick hesitated, his cheeks pinkening the way Cade always found adorable.“Because of my place in society, the expectation was always that I would take the… dominant role.”He lifted his head to meet Cade’s gaze, his own eyes dark and wide.“I would feel you inside me.”
Well, shit.Cade hadn’t misunderstood, but he also hadn’t understood at all.He opened his mouth to ask if Erick was sure, but no, he knew his lover better than that.Erick had asked, which meant he was sure, so Cade had only one decision to make: how he was going to fulfill Erick’s request.
Cade grinned, feeling downright wolfish.“Just lie back, darlin’,” he drawled.“I’m going to take such good care of you.”
“Of that I have no doubt.”Erick nodded toward the bedside table.“The cream Dr.Lillard gave me to use on the scars should serve….”
“I’ll get there, but we won’t need that just yet.”He pressed Erick’s shoulders gently back to the mattress, nuzzling down the curve of his neck to the hollow of his throat.Erick hummed his approval as Cade dragged his thumbs over Erick’s pebbled nipples.“Yeah, let me hear you.There’s no one here to know or care how loud we get.”He nipped at one of the tight points, winning a groan before he soothed the tiny ache with a swipe of his tongue and treated the other side of Erick’s chest to the same attentions.
They had this one, golden night to themselves, and then who knew when they’d next have this kind of privacy, so Cade took his time, licking and sucking at Erick’s nipples until they were both red and swollen and Erick was arching beneath him at every touch of his lips.He pressed a single, tender kiss to the healing scar tissue and licked his way lower, along the lines of muscle bisecting Erick’s belly.
“I will not last if you take me in your mouth,” Erick gasped.
Cade lifted his head and smirked at Erick.“As much fun as that sounds, I promised you something else tonight, and I intend to keep that promise.”He dropped a quick kiss to the overheated shaft, already slick with fluid, and resisted the impulse to taste.His own cock ached like a sore tooth, but he ignored it in favor of urging Erick to spread his legs so he could kneel between them.
He stopped for a moment and simply stared, humbled by the trust Erick was placing in him, allowing him to play like this.Somehow, through some twist of fate, they had ended up here, both of them alive against the odds, in bed together.As much as he longed for Erick, Cade knew in his soul this was more than just the joining of their bodies.This was the start of the rest of their lives.He ran his fingers up the inside of Erick’s thigh, stopping short of his balls.Erick shifted, spreading his legs wider.Cade slid his hand beneath Erick’s thigh and lifted so his knee bent, opening more space.He turned his head and pressed a kiss to the patch of skin there; then, bracing one elbow next to Erick’s hip, he kissed his way down the inside of Erick’s thigh until he reached his groin.The smell of Erick’s desire surrounded him, making him feel as intoxicated as he’d ever been, and he paused to rub his face against Erick’s sac, reveling in the heat and scent and masculinity.
Above him, Erick gasped and squirmed, making Cade smile.He shifted to balance his weight so he had his hands free to angle Erick’s hips to give him access to his target.His Comanche brothers had not named him Wolf for nothing, and the scent of Erick’s arousal drew him to this target as unerringly as any other, his tongue circling the puckered, untouched flesh.
“Cade,” Erick rasped, and Cade would never get enough of hearing his name in that pleading tone.For a moment he resented anyone else who had ever seen Erick like this.But, he told himself,no one had ever loved Erick this way—no one had ever loved Erick at all.He had the rest of their lives to fix that.
He licked and sucked and nipped until Erick was writhing beneath him before working his tongue into the furled entrance.It was a damn good thing Payne and Miz Roarke were gone, because the cry that wrung from Erick might have been heard all the way to the bunkhouse.
Cade’s chest swelled with pride at being able to bring his lover such pleasure.Determined to wrest as many similar sounds from Erick as he could before the night was over, he pressed closer and thrust his tongue in again, a little deeper each time, a hint and a tease of what was to come.He wanted Erick wet and loose and desperate for him even before he slid a first finger inside to stretch him.Erick’s taste and smell drove Cade wild, but he reined in his desire to focus on Erick’s pleasure first.
Erick bucked against his mouth, riding his tongue the way Cade fully intended Erick to ride his cock before the night was over.Cade tensed his tongue and met Erick’s movements with little thrusts and sucks of his own until Erick’s feet were kicking restlessly and his hands were scrabbling in the sheets for something to hold onto.
“Cade, please….”Erick’s voice was hoarse and broken and had never sounded more beautiful to Cade’s ears.“I ache… I need you now.”
Cade nearly ignored the plea, so lost in the joy of getting to ravish Erick this way, but the need to finally sink into his hot depths outweighed even that.With one last swipe of his tongue, Cade knelt up and reached for the pot of salve.“Not until I’m sure you’re ready for me.”He dragged his index finger through the thick cream and rubbed it around Erick’s wet hole before slowly easing it inside.“How does that feel, darlin’?”
“I have had my fingers inside me before,” Erick said a bit testily.“More!”
“Oh, you’re going to be one of those, are you?”Cade crooked his finger to coat the passage.He was going to come back to the image of Erick with his fingers in his own ass.Maybe even get Erick to demonstrate some night.Someothernight.“Trying to steer the wagon even when you’re not holding the reins.”
“I am happy to leave you the reins so long as you move at a proper pace.”Erick bucked his hips to drive Cade’s finger deeper.“I can take more.”
Cade slid out and slicked up a second finger before working them both inside.“Yes, but have you felt this?”He swiped a fingertip over the bundle of nerves that made Erick curse in German.Oh, that was going to be his new goal—to make Erick lose his English.He rubbed over the sensitive bump until Erick was clenching around him.“So tight—you’re going to feel so good squeezing around my cock.”
“Yes,” Erick gasped.“I want to feel that.Now.”
Cade spread his fingers, judging the give of the muscle, but however ready Erick thought he was, Cade wasn’t satisfied.Besides, he was having too much fun making Erick gasp and squirm and curse.Anything to drive Erick even wilder than he already was.“Soon,” he promised as he spread more cream around Erick’s entrance and pressed a third finger against his hole.Erick froze and cursed at the stretch, proving Cade right.As good as it would feel to simply sink into Erick’s hot depths, it wouldn’t feel good to Erick, which meant exercising his patience a little while longer.He rubbed his thumb over the patch of skin between Erick’s sac and his entrance, massaging his sweet spot from the outside until the constriction released enough that he could get three fingers inside.Finding the little bump again, he worked it from both directions, milking it relentlessly.“Sing for me, my sweet,” he murmured in Comanche.
“Cade,mein Lieber… bitte,bitte….”Erick was starting to sound frantic.Cade wasn’t sure how much longer he could hold off himself.His cock throbbed each time Erick clenched around his fingers.Erick keened as he drew his fingers out, driving Cade mad with the sound.As much as he wanted to just push inside that slick heat, his weight might be too much for Erick’s still-healing body to bear.Shifting to one side of the mattress, he rolled onto his back and smeared what was left of the cream over his leaking shaft.
“Erick, kneel up over me,” he urged.“It will be easier on you this way, and you can take me inside as slowly as you need to.”
Erick bent down to seize Cade’s mouth in a needy, demanding kiss before straddling his hips.Cade reached back, dragging his cock up and down the crease between Erick’s cheeks, biting his lips at the need to let Erick take control.He wanted nothing more than to roll Erick to his back and drive into him, but he had to let Erick do this at his own pace.When Erick’s hand closed over his own, he slid his palms around to brace Erick’s hips, hoping he would be able to last long enough for Erick to take him inside.
He and Erick cried out together when Erick thrust down, taking all of Cade in one strong push.Erick let out a ragged breath, not moving for a long moment, while Cade struggled not to give in to the insistent, exquisite pressure.
Cade caressed Erick’s flanks as tension mounted between them.He had to give Erick the time he needed to adjust to Cade’s presence inside him, no matter that it had been Erick’s choice to take him in so quickly, but fuck, he didn’t know how much longer he could stay still.After what seemed like hours, Erick shifted a little, though it only ratcheted the tension higher as Cade fought to lie there and let Erick explore.
Finally Erick rose up onto his knees, beginning to move more freely.Cade rocked his hips to meet Erick’s downward thrust and shot his lover a sly grin.“Ride me, cowboy.”
“Ah, now you do not complain that I take the reins?”Erick pushed down and circled his hips, raising a smug eyebrow when it made Cade gasp.
