Taking the decision out of Nix’s hands, Jamie throws off his shirt and gets down on his hands and knees, and disappears into the blanket fort.
Nix doesn’t want to waste a minute, crawling after him only to find Jamie already lounging like a king on the mountain of pillows and bedding that still smells like family. It’s intimate and close, and everything Nix had imagined.
“Do you want to watch a movie? Like old times?” He wakes the laptop up, and a familiar image fills the screen.
“Need for Speed?Holy shit, Nix,” Jamie murmurs as Nix lies beside him and props the laptop on his alpha’s belly. “We saw that at the drive-in on one of our not-dates, yeah?”
“Mmhmm, and then we watched it at my parents’ place that winter, too. Remember? Under all those blankets?” Nix hopes Jamie remembers, because Nix had been as horny as he’d ever been in his whole teenage life. He had smelled so good—a rich, woody pine that Nix was sure had been Jamie’s new cologne.
A scent he now knows as his aroused-alpha-Were scent. Nix’s eyebrows hit his hairline before narrowing in accusation. “Hey! You were horny that day!”
“What? No,” Jamie denies, but his face is red. Eighteen-year-old Jamie had been so careful of Nix, more than three years younger. So eager to be honorable, but it had been the sweetest torture for two teenage boys in love.
Nix dumps the laptop off to the side and slides on top of his beet-red mate. “You were! And here I thought it was just me.” He runs both hands over Jamie’s pecs, giving his nipple a teasing pinch. “Did you want me that bad, James Rhodes?”
Groaning, Jamie runs his hands down Nix’s back and slips one over his hip, bucking up. “You wereso pretty, Baby Boy. Gold from the sun, and with freckles on your shoulders and thighs. I wanted to lick them, and bite you—sobad.”
Yes. Nix would have let bleached-blond Jamie Rhodes do all of that, even back then.
Nix sits up, careful of the low-hanging roof on the fort. It puts his already wet ass over Jamie’s pelvis, seeking that hardening cock through his shorts. It’s lying on Jamie’s thigh, still not quite hard—justinterested. He’s reminded suddenly of how he’d wanted to put his hands under those blankets in his parents’ basement, just to feel them pressing along his (boy)friend’s thigh. Illicit and taboo, it had only made Jamie’s restraint hotter.
“We weren’t allowed, remember? You were so hot, Jamie. I wanted to touch you so bad then. You already had such a big dick. Thought about you all the time. In my hand, in my mouth…inme.”
“Jesus, baby. Yes. Anything you want,” Jamie groans.
Nix would have let him do anything back then. He’d fantasized about it so many times, teenage hormones adding fuel to the fire of their attraction. So many fantasies he’d missed out on over the years.
Huh. Nothing is stopping him from living that entire fantasy out right here. It hadn’t been the reason he’d started this, but maybe this is where his mind has been leading him with the entire afternoon’s plan. Arousal burns hot in his belly, shooting down into his toes at the thought.
Nix slides to the side abruptly and pulls a quilt over them both, positioning the laptop back on Jamie’s belly.
“Nix?” Jamie looks confused and a little disappointed; maybe even a bit worried. His little frown is so cute.
“Just play along, okay?” He whispers and pressesplayon the movie.
It takes him a second, but Jamie Rhodes ain’t no dummy. “Oh, okay.” He smiles eagerly and nods.
The movie starts, and Michael Keaton is talking about theDay Leonerace,but Nix isn’t paying attention now, just like he hadn’t then. This time, he slides a hand under the covers and places it lightly on Jamie’s warm, muscular thigh. His alpha catches his breath at the teasing touch, especially when Nix gets to the bottom edge of his sweat shorts. The skin on the insideof Jamie’s thigh is like velvet, and Nix discovers that he hasn’t bothered wearing boxers.
Oh, goody.
Shivering at the idea of easy access, Nix lets the tip of his finger trail through the prickly hair and graze the soft head of his cock.
His mate remains perfectly still, as if pretending not to have felt it. Playing along like Nix asked. He pops a strawberry in his mouth and watches the laptop like his life depends on it. But his cheeks are pink and the flush has crept down his neck already.
Surprisingly, the idea of Jamie ignoring him sends a frisson of illicit pleasure down his spine.
It shouldn’t come as a shock. Not really, as the past few months have been filled with opportunities to learn about what turns him on, and teasing Jamie or Gideon has rocketed to the top of the list. Luca thinks it’s because of the iron control they exert, and that he enjoys pushing it to its limits just to see it break.
It’s even more fun when he and Luca push their buttons simultaneously.Good Times.
Of course, he likes Rowan’s wild side and Gray’s deep, penetrating style of lovemaking. Nix really loves being romanced by Leo, where they take it slow and always get there together.
And Finn…whoo.The doctorrocks his Kasbah. If you know what he means. But at this moment, there’s nowhere he’d rather be than testing Jamie’s incredible will.
By the time Aaron Paul’s character is bragging about a car going 230 mph, Nix has managed to get his hand all the way up inside those loose sweat shorts.Jamie’s thigh is trembling and jerking under Nix’s hand, and when Nix brushes the head of his cock for the second time, it’s wet, already soaking the front of Jamie’s shorts.
He drags his palm through it, pumping his rock-hard length. Jamie’s deep rumbling groan is the sign his wolf has been waiting for. Surging up, he knocks the laptop to the side so he can get his hands hooked into thewaistband of Jamie’s shorts.
