Guardian (11 page)

A
lex totally counted
lunch and games at Ty’s place as a date, even with Val and Phoebe in tow. They went to see a movie together midway through the week. Technically, then, as far as he was concerned, it was their fourth date when Ty came over to his apartment for a dinner Alex had cooked himself.

Ty was giving the inside of his apartment that critical eye. His expression was neutral as he looked over all the astronaut toys, rocket ships, and yet more space shuttles which were neatly arranged in a prominent display case beside the television.

Alex glanced out at him as he arranged the stir-fry he’d concocted onto the best plates he owned, grateful that he actually had a pair with the same design among the mishmash he’d accumulated over the years. Ty had put his new suit on again, and Alex would be lying if he said it wasn’t incredibly sexy. Ty managed to avoid looking like a nightclub bouncer and more like a soldier in dress uniform. It was the way he held himself: upright, confident, at ease without being casual.

This man was here, in his apartment, and he’d kept coming back even though Alex was making him leap through hoops. It wasn’t the behavior of a man who wanted to fuck him and abandon him. Ty
liked
him. They laughed together. They teased gently without being rude or offensive. They were almost always touching, whether because they sat together or because they could at least hold hands in a darkened movie theater. And the kissing…

Alex sighed with satisfaction. Ty kissed like a man possessed. It was as though mere contact with Alex was enough to drive him out of his own mind, and knowing that he had such an effect on this powerful, smart man was intoxicating.

He’d seen Ty eat kimchi, which meant the mechanic wasn’t averse to a bit of spice in his diet, so Alex sprinkled a little shichimi over the stir-fry before he carried plates to the table.

Ty turned from the display case and came over to kiss Alex’s cheek. “Smells delicious.”

“Me, or dinner?” Alex laughed as he sat. Val trotted into the kitchen in case Alex had dropped food in there.

“Yeah.” Ty grinned and sank into his seat.

That was another thing about Ty. He didn’t whine that Alex was vegetarian. He didn’t insist he had to have meat in his own food and Alex should maybe try some bacon. He sat down and he ate a vegetable stir-fry without complaint, and his only comment on the meal was that it was every bit as delicious as it had smelled.

“So is your bedroom stuffed to overflowing with even more space toys?” Ty chuckled once the meal was done.

“Oh, you’re asking to see my bedroom now?” Alex blushed as he cleared the table.

“Maybe. You know, just to check it out. Make sure there aren’t gonna be any astronauts watching us.”

Alex’s gasp was faint, automatic, and his skin tingled. He wet his lips quickly. “Us?” he managed to squeak. He all but ditched the plates into the sink. “Anyway, astronauts are cool. I was going to be an astronaut when I was a kid.”

“Really?” Ty stepped in close and slid hands around him. They settled on his ass and began to knead through Alex’s pants.

“Mhmm.” Alex sagged against Ty’s body as his cock began to swell. Ty’s fingers were firm, and the warmth of his touch seeped through the cotton. “Yeah,” he groaned. He wasn’t sure whether in answer to the question or as encouragement for the manhandling.

Ty chuckled and ducked down quickly. His hands went to the backs of Alex’s thighs and he scooped the attorney up and over one broad shoulder into a fireman’s carry.

Alex cried out in surprise. Within a moment he was half upside-down, his face against Ty’s back. One hand gripped at the man’s jacket while the other grabbed his glasses before they fell off. His cock ground into that beefy shoulder and his cry melted into a moan.

“Uh huh. Had a funny feeling you’d like that.”

Alex bobbed his head in a wordless agreement. The floor ran away from him and it took a second to work out that he was being carried through the lounge while Ty opened doors and checked out what lay beyond each one. Val bounced after them, her tail held high.

“Yeah, here we go.” Ty ducked through into the bedroom with care, and Alex pressed against his body to prevent getting knocked against the door frame. Then he reached out to shut the door before Val could chase them inside. “Wow. You could sleep half a squad in this thing. Where do you even get sheets this big?”

Alex’s answer was cut short by Ty’s hands cupping his ass and delving between his legs. All he could do was mumble a wordless agreement when fingers nudged over his balls.

Ty leaned over, and Alex fell back against his own bed. He let go of Ty’s jacket and wriggled up to make room for them both.

“Nuh uh. Stay right here.” Ty grabbed him by the belt and dragged Alex toward him with one hand. “You don’t get away that easy.”

Alex bit his lip and reseated his glasses so that he could look up at Ty. He watched while the mechanic slowly peeled his jacket off and tossed it aside, and finally it sank in that Ty was stripping for him when the other man’s fingers unfastened his tie unnecessarily slowly. Alex’s prick swelled when Ty pulled his tie free and the silk made that distinctive
rasp
sound against his collar until it fell away. “I wouldn’t want to get away,” he breathed.

Ty lifted an eyebrow, and smirked down at him. “Those are words to remember,” he rumbled. His fingers danced down the front of his shirt and popped each button with ease. The further down he went, the more he tugged his shirt open, and the more of his mountainous form he exposed until at the end he teased the material free of his pants and Alex could see down past his belly button to the dark treasure trail which disappeared under his belt.

“You’re making me hard as fuck,” Alex admitted. He drank in the exposed flesh, desperate to see more.

“I’ve never gotten a good look at you,” Ty rumbled. He dropped forward and landed one hand beside Alex’s hips, hard enough to shake the mattress. With his other he began to unfasten Alex’s belt, and he drew it slowly free until he could toss it away. “Undo your shirt.”

Alex raised his chin obediently and popped his buttons with trembling hands. Every time he unfastened one, Ty pushed the material aside and gazed down at the skin it exposed, then dipped in to plant a kiss against it.

Alex writhed as Ty’s lips left hot, wet tracks down his chest. When the bigger man pressed a kiss against his stomach, he shivered in delight.

Ty gripped Alex’s shoulders and pulled him from the bed enough to push the shirt down his back. Some fighting with his cuffs, and then the shirt was gone, and Ty pushed him back down.

“You’re a lithe little thing, aren’t you?” Ty’s voice was hoarse as he drank in the sight. “I bet you wriggle around a lot.”

Alex squirmed and lifted his arms over his head to better offer himself up. “I can’t help it.”

“Bet I can stop you.” Ty grinned and turned his attentions to Alex’s pants. He unbuttoned them, palmed the length of Alex’s cock through them, then unzipped the fly and hoisted the smaller man’s hips off the bed so he could pull pants and boxers down in one smooth motion.

Cool air wrapped around his cock as it sprang free, and Alex groaned. He felt heat flush along his skin at being handled so easily, and it grew hotter when he caught sight of Ty standing over him, staring at his cock, paying full attention to it.

“You gotta understand,” Ty said slowly, “I don’t often say shit like this…”

Alex swallowed. A twinge of fear crept into him. Was Ty about to back out? Had he changed his mind now he’d actually got this far?

“…but that is one fucking good-looking cock, Alex.”

His cock hardened at the praise, the scrutiny, and sent ripples of pleasure through his balls, his ass, his stomach. They cascaded through his body and his nipples tingled, firmed. “Oh, God,” he whimpered.

“Nah.” Ty’s smirk returned. “Just me. Close, though.” He peeled Alex’s socks off, then ran his hands along Alex’s inner thighs. He stopped short of making contact with anything delicate before he let go.

“You know, I’m not even gonna argue with that.” Alex’s eyes were drawn to the unmistakable bulge in Ty’s pants.

Ty chuckled and unzipped himself, but he turned away as he pushed his pants down.

Alex had to raise his head from the sheets to watch, but he was rapt the moment he did.

Ty had gone commando. He’d sat there all through dinner with absolutely nothing under his pants but this tight, round ass with tail feathers splayed across it, and calves like tree trunks. And he’d
known
. He’d known he was literally butt naked under his suit while he laughed and joked with Alex.

He’d come here like this. To strip for him.

“Fuck, that’s hot,” Alex blurted.

Ty said nothing. He raised his shirt, exposing more and more of his tattoo until the eagle was fully spread, wings above his head. The shirt fell, but Ty remained there a moment.

Then he lowered his arms and turned to face Alex.

“Jesus fuck!” The words exploded out of him at the sight of Ty’s hard, erect length. It was… not unexpected, he had to admit, but
still
. Seeing it in the flesh, it was as much of a beast as the rest of Ty. Ramrod straight, veined, the head dark and bulbous… Alex licked his lips and swallowed.

That… one day… was going to be a serious challenge.

His eyes widened sharply and he looked up at Ty, but the man gave a reassuring shake of his head.

“What, you think I’m gonna skip all the getting-to-know-you and race to the finish?” Ty ducked away and fished condoms from his discarded jacket’s pocket. He waved the packets like a developing Polaroid and the packets made the familiar crinkling sound. “And I’ve been Googling. Nothing touches anything it shouldn’t ’till we both get tested. I’m with you on that now I know, you know...” He paused. “When the Army taught this stuff it was all focused on straight sex.” He tossed one of the condoms to Alex.

Alex grabbed for it and looked it over. Ty’s Googling must have hit jackpot; he hadn’t even got lubricated ones. “So what’s the plan?”

Ty grinned. Without ceremony he tore the pack of his own condom open and rested his knees against the edge of the bed. Then he looked Alex right in the eye as he pinched the tip and rolled the latex down slowly.

Alex’s breath caught in his throat as he watched. Ty’s hand just about wrapped around his own girth, and his hips thrust toward Alex while he unfurled the clear condom down around himself. He made it look absolutely filthy, filled with promise, with intent, as he brought his other hand in to smooth along the shaft and chase the first toward his dark mass of pubes.

When Ty pulled his hands clear, his cock looked no less huge, and Alex squirmed.

“Your turn.”

He tore at the pack in his grasp and plucked the condom free. After Ty’s near-obscene show it’d be rude not to return the favor, so Alex glanced down past his own chest to where his cock stood proud and eager. He squeezed the air from the tip and rolled it down slowly, firmly, over his length and once he was sure it was in place he looked up to Ty as he shuddered at the pleasure of his own touch.

“Trust me?” Ty growled.

Alex nodded quickly. He had no idea what the mechanic had in mind, but at this point he didn’t care. “Yes,” he breathed.

Ty sank down over him, and their bodies pressed together. “Good,” Ty whispered in his ear.

T
y exhaled
as his skin came into contact with Alex’s. It was more than just their hard cocks pressing together between them, though
fuck
that made his ass clench when it happened. His chest against Alex’s, their hips together, Alex’s hard nipples pressing into his skin, the shift of the other man’s ribs as his breathing came hard and fast, it was all so intimate, so… so
new
.

Christ. He felt like some fumbling virgin all over again. Everything was fresh. Vivid.

Different.

Yet it didn’t feel wrong. Unusual, but weirdly perfect. Alex was squirming and gasping, and his otterlike frame fit against Ty’s body as though it was shaped just for him. His own custom-fit lover, made to measure.

Alex’s breath was hot against his ear. His lips nibbled tentatively at Ty’s shoulder. Hands began to explore his back, soft and supple from a life of desk work.

Ty wanted to do that. He wanted to touch every inch of Alex, to feel his skin and warmth, to have every breath and tremor resonate against his palms.

He propped himself up slowly and eased Alex’s glasses from his face to reveal those stunning blue eyes. He stretched as far as he could to put them safely out of the way on a bedside table, then went back to gazing down at Alex, drinking in every line of his face. His sharp cheekbones. His slender nose. Those pink, moist lips. Alex straddled a line between handsome and beautiful that Ty didn’t have any words to describe, and yet for all his fine features and delicate limbs, there was nothing about him that Ty could possibly apply the word
feminine
to.

No. This was real. Alex was a man. A very hot, sexy, and passionate man who made it clear only moments ago that he really,
really
liked to be overpowered.

Yeah. Ty could do that.

Alex’s lips twitched up at the corners. “What’re you thinking?”

“Nothing,” Ty lied with a wolfish grin.

“Uh huh… Oh!”

Ty slipped a hand between them. All he’d done was brush his palm across Alex’s chest, but the effect was immediate. The attorney’s head fell back and his back arched in a way that exposed his throat in a glorious curve. Ty sneaked a look down to where his hand rested, then made a soft sound of surprise.

Alex’s nipples were hard as goddamn marbles. One peeked between his fingers, dark and pink, ringed by sparse and pale hair so slight it was almost invisible. Was that what had made Alex arch so abruptly? Just a touch?

He drew his palm back, brushing it across the same nipple, and Alex groaned again. Ty felt the twitch of the other man’s cock against his own, too.

“You like that, huh?” he breathed.

“Oh God,” Alex groaned. “Yeah.”

“How about this?” He took the nipple between finger and thumb and began to roll it softly in his grip.

The sound Alex made was unintelligible, yet it spoke directly to Ty’s groin, and he ground his hips against the man under him on pure instinct.

“I’ll take it you do,” he growled. He lowered himself, back curving to let him reach without parting their groins, until he could fasten the other nipple between his lips and drag his tongue across it.

Alex bucked and writhed like a goddamn stallion. He cried out, a strangled and desperate sound, filled with lust and need and heat. His hands gripped Ty’s ass so tightly that Ty could feel the neat nails digging into his flesh.

Yeah. Alex liked
that
all right!

Ty chuckled against the warm, faintly salt nub of flesh, but he didn’t want to focus on just nipples all evening. There had to be more to explore, more to discover.

He pulled back and stole a look up at Alex’s flushed, sweat-beaded face. The man’s lips were parted wide, and his head thrown back against the sheets, which left that seductive line of his throat fully available.

Ty couldn’t resist such a call. He slinked his way toward it. Ran his tongue along it. He began at the dip between Alex’s collarbones and followed the crest all the way up and over his Adam’s apple, which vibrated with another of Alex’s delirious moans. He kissed back down the wet trail he’d created, before easing his tongue along the angle between neck and shoulder.

Alex bucked against him. His fingers began to knead and claw. His hands dragged up and over Ty’s back, spreading across his spine and up toward his shoulders. They were like birds dancing in the rain, and the more sweat they slipped over the more smoothly they slid.

Ty cataloged it all. He teased and licked, and noted which areas Alex preferred. He liked that soft spot at the base of his throat. He
loved
the side of his neck, especially just behind where his jaw met his ear. He went wild at the gentlest touches to his nipples, and Ty had no intention of pushing that any further at the moment. That was something to ask about, not just launch in on.

Alex loved other things, too. Things Ty hadn’t thought of. He loved it when Ty breathed across his skin, especially his stomach. He groaned with pleasure as Ty’s fingers brushed over the insides of his elbows. And he let out words to make a nun blush when Ty pressed a hand against his collarbone to pin him down.

“Fuck,” Alex begged. “Fuck. Ty, fuck…”

Ty lifted himself off. Their chests were almost stuck together, and when they parted, the air on his damp skin made him shiver.

Alex made the most adorable sound, and cast him a wild-eyed, desperate stare.

“I’m not going anywhere,” Ty stated. “Hold your horses.”

He’d only brought a small packet of lube with him, carefully chosen so as not to damage the condoms. He backed away from the bed and gazed at Alex’s ruffled, sprawled form, then grabbed his jacket off the floor and fished out the packet.

Alex’s eyes widened at the sight of it, and he swallowed. His gaze flickered up to Ty’s eyes, briefly uncertain.

Ty had asked for Alex’s trust, and Alex had given it to him. But that didn’t mean he wouldn’t want a little reassurance right about now. Ty hadn’t been with a guy before, and he sure as hell didn’t want to hurt Alex.

“I’m not gonna do anything crazy,” he said softly as he tore open the packet and squeezed lube into his palm. Then he stepped in and curled his hand around Alex’s dick. “See? Just this.”

“Oh!” Alex laughed with relief, then gasped again. “Ohhhh! Oh my God, Ty!”

“Uh huh.” Ty couldn’t find anything else to say.

Alex’s cock was in his hand.

He had his hand around Alex’s cock.

It seemed so unreal all of a sudden. Alex’s cock was hard and long and it wasn’t as thick as his own, but it was still
another man’s cock
and it felt amazing, like he could control Alex’s whole body through this one motion, like the hot, solid shaft of dick fit his palm perfectly and he knew exactly what to do with it even though he’d never touched it before in his life.

His hand slipped along the length with ease. He worked the shaft slowly, his grip firm on the way down and looser as it returned to the head. He didn’t want to risk dislodging the condom, so he kept his touch measured and precise, then forced himself to stop before he pushed Alex too far.

He’d come here with plans, and he intended to stick to them.

“Tyyyy,” Alex whined as Ty released him. “Don’t stop…”

Ty grinned. He
liked
that tone of voice. It was so needy, so out of control. Completely unlike Alex’s cool, collected, professional demeanor. It was a side of this man that nobody else could or would see.

He squeezed the rest of the lube out and coated his own cock with it. The touch made him shudder, and he was careful not to stimulate himself too much.

Before Alex could grow restless, he reached out with his dry hand and grabbed him by the hip and then, without any mercy, flipped Alex over onto his front. He knelt between the attorney’s knees and pushed them apart while Alex was still working on freeing his arm from under himself, and he placed his dry palm against one ass cheek to hold Alex still.

Then he trailed the fingers of his other between Alex’s ass cheeks. He slicked lube along the crease, taking his time to feel the heat there, the curious softness of this skin. He caught a glimpse of Alex’s hole, pink and vulnerable, and his fingers idly eased toward it, then skipped over without making contact so that he could trace the inch and a half of skin between it and the back of his balls.

He’d spent all week reading everything Google could find. Now was the time to find out whether or not it paid off.

Alex cried out and ground his hips against the bed, then back against Ty’s hand, as though he was helpless between the two and couldn’t tell which he wanted more. “Fucking hell, Ty! Oh God! Yes! Yes!”

Ty wiped his hand on the sheets, then gripped Alex’s other ass cheek and slowly nestled his cock between them.

He couldn’t tell which of them gasped the loudest. The sensation of that hot, wet crack cradling his dick wasn’t anything he could have prepared for, but it sounded like Alex was just as aroused by it, and for a moment the two of them were still, and the only sound was their rapid, heavy breaths.

Ty squeezed Alex’s ass and pushed his cheeks closer together as he slowly thrust between them. His cock slipped through the lube-lined channel and his balls brushed over Alex’s in a light touch which made his sack tingle with excitement.

The muscles of Alex’s back shifted. Tension eased from his shoulders, but gathered in his back instead. He twisted to look up at Ty over his shoulder, holding himself up on one elbow, and his mouth hung helplessly open.

“God, you’re fucking sexy,” Ty snarled. He ground against Alex’s crease, his weight supported by his hands on the smaller man’s ass. “You’re gonna make me come if you keep looking at me like that.”

Alex swallowed quickly, and his gaze darkened. “You’re gonna come on me?”

“Yeah.” Ty moved his hands to the sheets and sank forward, pressing against Alex’s back. He snaked an arm around the man’s lithe body, pausing only to drag his thumb across a hard nipple, then clamped his forearm across Alex’s chest and gripped his shoulder tight. He used the hold to bear Alex down against the mattress, then his free hand drew Alex’s wrists together over his head and held them there. “I’m gonna come right here, right against your ass.”

Alex shuddered. His hips tipped toward Ty’s cock and he rubbed himself against it as hard as he could. “Fuck,” he breathed. “Fuck, I’m gonna come. Ty… Ty!”

Ty nuzzled against the side of Alex’s neck. He smelled musky and sweet, and the taste of his skin had changed in subtle ways he couldn’t define. He thrust against the smaller man as the familiar tension of orgasm gathered momentum. The harder he thrust, the stronger the need to pump his cock against Alex’s ass became, and the more his tension tipped itself toward pressure.

It built.
God
it built. It radiated through him and he teetered on the precipice.

And then he fell.

“Alex! Shit, Alex!”

A white-hot moment of clarity, and his hips jerked. The breath was knocked from his lungs as each shot exploded out of him until he had nothing left to give.

He shuddered. Sweat dripped from his forehead and landed against Alex’s hair. The body under him shook as Alex let out a long, low moan.

And then they sagged together. Panting. Gasping like suddenly the room was all out of air.

Ty loosened his hold, just a little, then gathered enough strength to shift his weight off Alex’s back and onto the bed beside him. He managed a few kisses against the back of Alex’s neck, then laid his head down and idly ran his fingers over that silky blond hair.

“Was that okay?” he whispered when he had the energy to.

Alex laughed weakly. “Okay?” He sounded incredulous. “Baby, it was incredible!”

Ty grinned like an idiot and pulled Alex back against his chest.

Yeah, he could get used to this.