He watched the tips of Kian’s ears flush red with pleased embarrassment, but the human didn’t reply. A smug grin lingered in the corners of his mouth as they walked. Adrissu wanted to ask him a thousand questions, wanted to look over every one of his notes, wanted to understand what Kian had pieced together under the tutelage of the warlocks at the Aefrayan library—but the sweet smile that curled around his freckled mouth made everything rattling in his brain seem pointless and secondary. It had been a month that they’d been apart, after all.
The further they got from the city gates, the closer Kian walked beside him, until their arms brushed against each other and Kian slipped his hand into Adrissu’s. He squeezed the human’s smaller hand in his own. Anticipation buzzed through his skin at the contact, but Kian kept looking resolutely ahead, whistling cheerfully as they walked.
They would veer off from the main road nearly an hour south of Castle Aefraya, and after another twenty minutes or so through the woods, they would reach the clearing just large enough for Adrissu to take form and fly. But Adrissu wasn’t sure he could wait so long, so he interrupted Kian’s whistling as he prompted,
“So tell me what you learned.”
Kian laughed, grinning up at him. “That eager, huh?”
“I’m much more eager to be inside you, but we have a bit of a walk ahead of us, so I figured this would help pass the time,” Adrissu replied, gesturing to the road before them, and Kian snorted with laughter again.
“Oh, headmaster, I couldn’tpossibly,” he replied breathlessly, and even though his teasing tone was familiar, it made Adrissu’s cock twitch all the same.
“Keep speaking to me like that, and I’ll find somewhere in these woods to bend you over,” Adrissu murmured, squeezing his hand and pulling him closer. Kian flushed, grinning up at him.
“I wouldn’t say no to that,” he said, and finally Adrissu stopped walking, Kian stumbling to a stop alongside him.
“Then what are we waiting for?” Adrissu said, watching Kian’s face—but there was no hint of hesitance, just a lewd, eager smirk.
“I’mwaiting onyou,” Kian retorted, and without any further answer, Adrissu hauled him off to the side of the road. They had passed only a few elves on their walk so far, fewer the further they got from the capital; but still Adrissu walked until they could no longer see the road through the foliage, although Kian’s excited laughter probably did them no favors if there was anyone approaching.
“Bequiet,” Adrissu growled, rounding on Kian to push him up against a tree. In one quick motion, his lips were on Kian’s, and one of his legs pressed hard between the human’s thighs, which parted eagerly around him. Kian’s tongue plunged into his mouth at the same moment his fingers began to fumble with the laces of Adrissu’s pants, making him groan with anticipation.
“And you’re tellingmeto be quiet,” Kian muttered against him, Adrissu moaning again as Kian’s deft fingers wrapped around his aching cock.
“You should be quiet,” Adrissu said, hips rutting against the human’s smaller form. “Or I’ll make you be quiet.”
Kian smiled wickedly at him. “That isn’t a deterrent at all, you know.”
As much as Adrissu had wanted to take control of the situation—wanted to manhandle Kian and have his way with him—when Kian dropped to his knees in front of him, Adrissu couldn’t bring himself to resist. Kian took his length into his mouth in one quick motion, sucking eagerly until Adrissu let out a ragged gasp.
“You’ve missed me,” he said, gripping Kian’s hair firmly in one hand and rocking his hips to feel the slide of his cock against the human’s tongue. “All you’ve been thinking of is my cock, haven’t you?” Kian groaned against him, nodding as his eyelids fluttered closed.
His cheeks were flushed and his lips swollen, and Adrissu had wanted him so very badly over the past month—it was a terrible combination, so after only a moment of fucking into the human’s mouth, Adrissu pulled away, ignoring the petulant whine Kian made when his cock slipped from his lips.
“Turn around,” Adrissu said, as he hauled Kian to his feet. The smaller man obeyed without question, bracing himself against the thick tree. He unlaced his breeches and dropped them, hitching up his loose shirt so Adrissu could admire his perfect, freckled backside.
“Be gentle,” Kian groaned, as Adrissu grabbed a handful of his ass, squeezing hard to pull his cheeks apart and rub the head of his cock against his pink hole. “Shit, I don’t have any kind of lube.”
“I do,” Adrissu said, and Kian laughed again, bucking against him.
“This was your plan all along, wasn’t it?” Kian teased breathlessly. Adrissu laughed, kissing the human’s neck.
“Of course it was,” he growled against Kian’s ear, relishing how the smaller man shuddered against him in response. “Did you really think you’d make it home before I had to get my hands on you?”
“No, I suppose not.”
Adrissu pulled away just enough to dig through his pockets, retrieving the small vial of lubricant he’d brought along. He made quick work of slicking his fingers and pushing them inside Kian, making him yelp.
“Begentle,” Kian groaned, but rocked against him all the same. Adrissu smirked, still kissing along the side of his neck. “It’s been a month. You have to go slow.”
“Oh, I don’t think I can do that,” Adrissu teased, slipping another finger inside. “It’s been an entire month. I’ve needed you forweeks.”
“Adrissu,” Kian whimpered, grinding against him with each thrust of his hand. For all his protests for Adrissu to be gentle, he was obviously caught up in the moment as well.
When his third finger slid inside with little resistance, Adrissu worked him open for only a moment longer before withdrawing his hand to slick his cock and line himself up with his opening.
“Slow,” Kian repeated, his voice breathless, and Adrissu forced himself to go slowly as he pressed himself inside. Tight, wet heat enveloped him, pulsating around his length; it took every ounce of his self-control to stop himself from mindlessly losing himself in his mate. “Fuck, I’ve missed you.”
