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I was so caught up in the moment and his kiss, I almost forgot what else we were doing. My body remembered, though, and the need for friction had me rocking in and out of him. Not as hard as I’d planned or as he’d challenged, but pounding into him didn’t feel right. Not this time. I just wanted to move in him. Move with him.Feelhim.
He broke the kiss but kept a firm grip on my neck, and his breath gusted across my lips as he said, “God, I love you.”
A rush of emotion and elation almost knocked me off my stride, but I recovered quickly, and a second before I found his mouth again, I murmured, “I love you, too.” I would never get tired of saying that. Or hearing him say it.
And it… didn’thurtto say it or think it anymore.
It shouldn’t. Of course it shouldn’t. But I’d been so frustrated and heartbroken for so long, just thinking it and wishing I could say it to him had hurt as if we were exes or something. As if every time the words ran through my mind, or even tumbled off my lips when I was alone, they cut a little deeper.
They didn’t anymore. They were a salve now. A relief. Because I could finally say it to him, and he said it, too, and Istillcouldn’t believe this wasreal.
If I thought too much about it, though, I’d wind up breaking down, and I didn’t want to alarm Matt or ruin this moment.
Instead, I did the next best thing—gave him exactly what he wanted.
One deep thrust had him dropping back onto the bed with a startled “Oh, fuck,” and I didn’t give him a chance to recover before I did it again. Matt’s eyes were wide, his lips apart, and he arched under me as I started railing him.
“You like that?” I asked.
The response was a choked whimper. He squirmed under me, rocking his hips to drive me one, and when he found his breath, he managed, “More. God, baby,more.”
His need was heady, his pleas absolutely music, and I fucked him for all I was worth. That chased away that certainty that my emotions were about to overwhelm me, and it also had us both groaning and cursing as my bed protested every hard, punishing thrust.
“Fuck, Cory…” He squeezed his eyes shut as he started pumping himself furiously. “Jesus Christ, that’s so good.”
“Yeah?” I bit my lip as I kept plowing into him. “Can you come like this?”
He moaned and arched. “I’mgonnacome. God, keep… ungh, don’t stop…”
As if he needed to tell me twice. I was too mesmerized to stop. By the physical sensation, but also the sheer rush of turning him into this. Watching him fall apart beneath me as I drove into him again and again and again. The flush of his skin. The muscles standing out on his arm and his abs. The way he tightened around me as we both sent him closer and closer to his orgasm.
Then his eyes flew open. He ground out a couple of curses, and then he let go of a cry that lit my senses on fire and nearly hauled me over the edge with him. His whole body quivered with the force of his climax, and cum dotted his abs as he mumbled absolute blissed out nonsense.
I rode him like a man possessed all the way through his orgasm, and it was that moment afterward—that sigh as he relaxed onto the bed, still trembling from his release—that made me let go. I forced myself in, shuddering hard, and I didn’t even know what I was saying or if there were words at all as I came deep inside the man I loved.
With a ragged sigh, I slumped over him, shaking all over as I tried to hold myself up. Matt wrapped his arms around me and pulled me all the way down. He kissed my forehead, and then we were just still—panting, trembling, letting the ecstasy roll through us as the dust began to settle.
I was distantly aware that I’d been hurting earlier. That I’d been sure Matt didn’t want me for anything more than a roll in the hay.
In his arms now, as he stroked my hair and we caught our breath, I was as relieved as I was satisfied.
Matt didn’t just want me physically. He loved me. He was holding me the way I’d always wished he could.
And everything was perfect.
Chapter 16
Matt
Magic was nothing unusual in my world. I spent more time around magic users than the average mortal, and I’d witnessed all kinds of things that most people never would. After fifteen years of representing sorcerers, fae, and the odd alchemist in the courtroom, it took a lot to shock or wow me.
Andnothinghad ever awed me more than this perfect, lazy moment in bed with Cory.
It was nothing short of a miracle that we were here. Him. Me. Naked. Satisfied. Completely in love. The man of my dreams who’d been right in front of me all this time in the form of the best friend I’d ever had.
Lying here with him, memorizing the shape of his body and the heat of his skin against mine as we shared languid kisses and blissed out looks, I was more content and awestruck than I’d ever been.
I’d done a lot of stupid shit in my life, but none of them would ever hold a candle to nearly losing him. Never making that mistake again, that was for sure.
