"Was I? And what were you getting ready to do when you started taking off your jacket?" Rob asked him.
"The one you took from me?" Julian said accusingly, but that didn't stop Rob's questioning.
"Were you going to rush him?" Rob asked him straight out, and he was pretty sure he knew the answer.
"I wasn't going to let you get hurt," Julian said, as much as admitting that he was right.
"I don't want you getting hurt either. Don't you take any crazy risks," Rob told him, his words coming out as an order.
"Look who's talking," Julian shot back.
There might have been more he wanted to say, but in that moment, Rob realized he didn't want to fight with him. He touched Julian's hair gently. "You were incredible, you know. You stayed so calm," Rob said just as Julian collapsed against him. Rob could hear him grit his teeth and feel him shiver in his arms.
"That fucking bastard," Julian rasped into his shoulder, his voice harsh and angry.
"It's OK now," Rob told him. "Don't hold back what you feel. You can lean on me, you know."
"I'm not sure I know how," Julian admitted. "But I'm learning."
As Julian raised his face to him for a kiss, Rob could see so much trust written in his beautiful eyes. He was lost in them. Those deep brown eyes could swallow him up, and Rob wanted to kiss his mouth forever. But first he let his fingertips smooth Julian's brow then trail down to stroke through his beard. In the next instant, Rob's lips were against his and Julian's beard tickled his chin. Rob kissed him softly at first then he let the kiss deepen, become rough with need.
Bodies pressed together, arms locked around each other, they kissed, and Rob couldn't get close enough to Julian. His whole body wanted to melt into Julian's.
"Your heart is beating like crazy," Julian noticed.
"Is it? I can't feel it," Rob breathed, barely hearing his own voice.
"I can. It's beating like a drum," Julian told him, stroking his chest through his shirt.
"You did that. It's because of you." Rob's lips brushed his earlobe as he spoke Julian's name in his ear.
Julian's hand was slowly sliding under his shirt and over his naked chest. Rob moved to unbutton Julian's shirt, but his hands ended up twisting with his shirt in his grip, wanting to tear it off him. Rob restrained himself for now and worked the buttons open.
When Julian started grinding against him, Rob started groping his ass. Grasping for him, Rob was desperate to press himself to Julian harder and feel his body shudder for him.
Desire roared through him, an irresistible force that couldn't be ignored. He pushed Julian back toward his bed and stripped him hurriedly. Flushed with so much desire, Rob couldn't contain it. He had to kiss and touch Julian everywhere, spread him out naked on that big bed.
His body thoroughly kissed and licked, Julian was shivering, his skin burning hot. As he watched Rob get ready to finger him, he whimpered. Rob worked his hole until Julian threatened to come.
Soon he had Julian moaning his name and arching off the bed as he fucked him. Rob drove himself inside him, loving him, needing to be as close to him as two bodies could get.
Then they were both moaning and coming together. Gasping his name, Julian was so beautiful and so spent. The sheen of sweat looked so good on him. Resting on top of him, Rob wiped the sweat off his brow and then kissed him deeply, wanting to drink him in.
Hair tussled, moving lazily, sighing and reaching for him, Julian was an irresistible sight. Rob wrapped himself around him and heard him say, "I love you, Rob." His eyes were half closed, his voice only a whisper and a sleepy, satisfied smile played on his lips.
"I love you too," Rob whispered back and felt Julian let out a sound between a moan and a sigh right before he fell asleep.
