Page 43 of The Cowboy's Home
The miracle of that, though, was that Craig wasn’t the only one who initiated it. For most of the long, tumultuous build-up to where they were now, Craig had ended up feeling like shit a lot of the time because Skyler never seemed all that interested.
Now, Craig would be hard pressed to say whether one of them or the other initiated more often. It was probably pretty close to even, and Craig could so easily remember a time when he would have thought it was impossible to feel as delicious satiated as he did.
“Come swimming with me,” Skyler coaxed, sitting up and taking off his sunglasses. He had been reading, but it was getting later in the day, and it was hot, despite the clouds that had sprung up as if overnight. Actually, there was a sort of thick, sticky quality to the warm air, and that made swimming an even more attractive option.
Craig stood and stretched, and then, much to his shock, Skyler actually stripped off the shorts which were all he wore. He stood, naked and not doing anything to try to hide that fact, the muffled sunlight glinting off of his beautiful, toned, tight little body.
“Skyler, someone could see,” Craig protested, and then Skyler gave him this incredibly sexy, challenging little look, one that most people in the world couldn’t have claimed to see. In fact, Craig sort of thought that he might just be the only one who brought this out of Skyler.
“No one’s around,” Skyler pointed out, as logical as ever. Still, to see him willing to bare his body, Skyler, who was usually so modest, it was honestly driving Craig a little bit insane. Funny how much difference the lack of just one piece of clothing, a pair of shorts, could be. “Or are you scared?”
If there was one thing about Craig that could easily be manipulated, it was that he was unwilling to turn away from a challenge. He had gotten into some trouble through the years because he had taken some dares that he really shouldn’t.
“Oh, don’t even,” Craig said, and it took him only a few seconds to push his own shorts down. He stood proudly, chin up, even though he was very aware of how his dick was swelling, just from the faint naughtiness of this. Well, it wasn’t like Skyler hadn’t seen that before.
He wasn’t sure if he reached for Skyler first or if Skyler reached for him, which was perfect. They met in the middle, fingers curling sweetly around each other, and ran together, laughing, into the pounding surf.
The tide was coming in, and with enough force that it quickly knocked them down into the water. They slashed each other, playing, and Craig tasted salt on his lips as they paddled out past the worst of the breakers. When they were in water deep enough that Craig could touch but Skyler couldn’t, Craig took advantage and wrapped his arms around his boyfriend, pulling him close.
“Oh, I see your plan,” Skyler murmured, as he came willingly close, his arms wrapping around Craig’s body, and his legs, too. “You’re just trying to get me to hold on to you.”
“Mmm,” Craig hummed in agreement. “And it’s working. I’m pretty pleased with my planning skills right now.”
Skyler laughed, a soft, low chuckle that utterly delighted Craig. He locked his legs around Craig and kissed him suddenly, the waves lapping around them, pushing them together as though the ocean approved of them being together.
It was deliciously naughty, being unclothed. It felt primal, natural, even though Craig couldn’t have imagined doing it with anyone else. And he definitely couldn’t imagine Skyler doing it with anyone else. But here, it was just them and nature, and he had the distinct if somewhat fanciful, idea that nature approved.
“You’re giving me ideas, you know,” Craig murmured, rocking his hips toward Skyler, spurred on by the swaying of the water around them. His cock slipped between the cheeks of Skyler’s ass, and it would be easy, so easy, just to slip inside of him. The water would let him do it easily.
“Good,” Skyler whispered, and then his mouth was clamping onto Craig’s, his tongue probing deep. His movements became more deliberate, seeking out Craig’s erection and doing his very best to adjust their position so that he could push right inside of the other man’s small, tight little body.
That seemed pretty clear to Craig, and when he pushed his hips forward, he found that he slid right in. He had just had Skyler last night, and he was open and welcoming and still slick for Craig. They were probably going to wear each other out soon, right? Only that didn’t seem to be the case. Where other people might have started to bore Craig a bit, Skyler only made Craig want him more than ever.
Once Craig was inside, there wasn’t much he could do but let the movement of the ocean rock them together. It was good that the waves were a little rougher than usual. It had them moving together at the perfect pace, Craig plunging deep and Skyler taking it. Right out in the open, they were joined, they were one, and even if someone had come by Craig would have had a hard time caring.
But no one did. It was just them, and the ocean, and the growing black clouds. There was probably some significance to those clouds, now that he thought about it, but he would be damned if he could figure out what it was.
Skyler came first, his body arching and tightening around Craig, as his arms and legs clenched him closer. That was all that Craig needed to find his own release, to grip Skyler by the sweet roundness of his ass and shoot inside of him.
It was then that the rain started. That was what those black clouds meant. Craig had been a little bit too busy to realize that until the first droplets fell on his face, light as a kiss. But they didn’t stay that way for long, and Craig gasped as the sky opened up, pouring on them so that he could almost swear that he would be drier under the water.
Keeping his arms wrapped around Skyler, Craig waded out of the ocean, and the waves seemed almost to be helping him along. He walked out of the surf, still holding Skyler, even still buried inside of him, as the rain pelted down around them. It was so thick now that he could hardly see through it, and while he had considered stopping to get their shorts, they were already soaking wet by now.
Lightning flared, thunder growled, and the air around them had taken on a sort of electrical charge that made Craig nervous. It was far too easy to imagine being hit by one of those blue-white bolts that arced across the sky, and he didn’t really feel safe until he was in the house, off of the beach where he and Skyler had definitely been the tallest thing around.
Inside, the howl of the wind around the cabin was obvious, but they were safe and dry in here. The storm receded from a real threat to an awesome spectacle of nature. The walls of the cabin were mostly mesh, to let in the warm air, and as Craig lay down, Skyler on top of him, on the couch, they were able to get a good glimpse of the restless ocean surging outside.
“It’s beautiful,” Skyler admitted, resting his head on Craig’s chest, a warm, comforting, and very sexy weight on Craig’s body. They snuggled together, Skyler still wrapped around Craig in the most intimate way possible.
“It is,” Craig murmured, but despite that beauty, he turned back to Skyler, who was even more gorgeous. “But I think this might be a sign that it’s time to move on. Once the rains start, they’re supposed to last for quite a while.”
Skyler nodded, and Craig felt the brush of the other man’s eyelashes against his shoulder as the smaller man curled up tighter on top of him.
“Mmm. Okay. Where do you want to go next?” Skyler wondered, and Craig frowned, giving that some serious consideration. There were so many places to go in the world, and the truth was, Craig still wanted to see all of them. So it was a hard question to answer, just because of how many options there really were.
“Tell you what we’ll do,” Craig murmured, his hands tracing lazy circles over Skyler’s bare back. “We’ll go to the Honolulu airport, and we’ll buy the first tickets we can get. We’ll wait on standby if we need to until there’re two seats together, and that’s where we’ll go.”
Skyler raised his head, and Craig grinned when he saw the shock on the other man’s face. He understood that shock, honestly. It wasn’t like it would be normal for him to throw himself on the mercy of fate like that. He was normally far too practical.
