Chapter 26
After the love they shared there, Julian wanted to stay in that bed with Rob and never leave, but he didn't want to be away from Danny all night. So they got out of bed in the middle of the night, drove back to the house and climbed into Julian's bed.
That meant dressing and then undressing each other again, touching warm skin until it became hot, kissing and getting to suck off Rob, taste him, love him in his own bed. Rob did the same for him.
Even as his eyes started to close, Julian thought he was too excited and happy to fall asleep, but being satisfied and exhausted won out.
In the morning, he took a deep breath against Rob's chest and woke up to Rob tilting his face up to kiss his eyelids.
"Good morning," Julian said with a lazy satisfied grin. "This is a nice way to wake up."
"Nothing nice about it. I'm waking you for purely selfish reasons. Time is short and I want to spent an eternity on you," Rob said and flipped him on his back.
Julian was struck by the word eternity but tried not to dwell on it. That word still spun around in his head. If he could spend an eternity like this with Rob, he would.
"I'm never going to be able to get enough of you," Rob said as his hands started to roam Julian's body and his hard cock pressed into his hip.
"Same here," Julian breathed. "I never want to leave this bed."
"Good. This is where I want you," Rob told him. He dipped his head down for a kiss then they heard a yippy little bark.
Rob raised his head and Julian groaned.
"Christie promised me she would keep them busy," Rob said just as they heard her telling Danny to show her the kitchen. Once they were gone, Rob pinned Julian to the bed and nibbled his way from his earlobe to his shoulder.
"I guess some peace and quiet is too much to expect on the day of the festival. This is the only time we're going to get alone together all day," Rob grumbled.
"We can shower together to make up for it," Julian suggested.
Rob grinned and kissed Julian long and hard to let him know he was taking him up on it.
Julian felt like he really owed Christie for looking after Danny and keeping him occupied that morning, but it seemed like she and Danny were having fun.
"You know I remember having a little brother. It wasn't like this," she said to Julian while they were waiting for Rob to finish helping Danny get ready for the festival. "From the second he was born, Rob bugged me so much. I guess it's different when your little brother is so much younger."
"Danny is very special to me," Julian told her, but he didn't think he could ever put into words how much Danny meant to him.
Christie looked at him oddly. "You're so different from what I expected. I thought you would be some arrogant, overbearing, high finance, Wall Street bro."
"Would Rob be interested in someone like that?" Julian couldn't imagine that be would be, but Christie wasn't so sure.
"I don't know. With men and with jobs, Rob always seemed to go wherever the wind blew him."
Looking at her as she said that, Julian saw more sadness than disapproval in her eyes. Julian wanted to say something to reassure her, but Danny was tromping down the stairs already followed by Rob. Danny was chattering to Lenny about the festival and why doggies couldn't go, and Rob was impossibly gorgeous.
The theme of the festival was fall colors and food. They could see some of the decorations they helped with and there would be more. Danny was excited but with so many people filling the sidewalks, he stayed close to Julian and Rob. Plenty of tourists had come for the festival, so the crowds were bigger than at Halloween but not as scary-looking.
While keeping an eye out for people they knew, they showed off the town to Christie. "The food you liked so much came from there," Rob told her while pointing out the Peach Tree Café. "Some friends of ours work there."
"Calling them 'our' friends already," Christie said, teasing him.
Rob denied it. "Did I say friends? I meant some guys, some random guys. Sam is really nice though." Leaning over, Rob told Julian. "All morning I kept waiting for Rico to show up at the last minute with some crazy costumes for us. Making us dress up as turkeys or pumpkins or something."
He looked grim but Julian had to laugh. "We got here safely."
Danny looked up at them, and he seemed a little nervous with so many people there.
"He's not loving this crowd," Rob said.
