Promises: Part I (Bounty Hunters Book 1) (20 page)

Vaughan still supported most of his weight on his elbows but he leaned in until their chests were together. He kissed him again but he made sure to keep the kisses light, full of love. Vaughan didn’t want them to get out of control and end up hurting one another. Duke opened his legs and let Vaughan slide between them, and he immediately began to thrust gently into Duke’s balls. Damn, he was comfortable there. Where he’d known for years that he belonged. Loving on Duke Morgan.

“Yessss,” Duke hissed. Vaughan reached down and gripped both of their cocks together. His movements still calculated and slow. He was running this right now. If they were gonna indulge, then he was damn sure going to make it safe… but also, so very worth it.

“There’s so much I want to do to you, Duke. Oh, my god.” Vaughan pushed his lips against Duke’s temple and held them there, pressing and mumbling his sentiments. Trying to figure out what word in the English language described what he was feeling for Duke. “I watched you when I was younger. Watched you until I just couldn’t anymore, and I told my dad that I wanted to study abroad.”

“You were just out of grad school when you went to Europe,” Duke said through a whisper that revealed his shock. “That was almost six years.”

“Yep.” Vaughan ran his fingertips down Duke’s cheeks, tucking his chin between his two fingers and tilting him up to look him in the eye. He needed to Duke to know how serious he was about him long before the man needed a life-saving kidney. “In my twenties—early twenties, actually—I’d convinced myself that I was ready to approach you. That you’d finally see me as a man. I’d just finished my master’s; I felt so grown up and mature. There were men and women in grad school that still fucked around and did stupid shit. Anytime I thought about things getting tough, and wanting to stop, I thought of you.” Vaughan kissed Duke again, keeping it chaste so he could continue speaking. “But when I came back home to North Carolina, I went straight to your office. And I saw you there. It was late. So late that I should’ve called first. Or texted you. Anything that would’ve saved me from seeing what I did.”

Duke lifted his head and shifted slightly. “Vaughan. What? What did you see?”

Vaughan’s caress was gentle and affectionate on Duke’s hair, but the next second, Vaughan’s fingers curled tightly around the long, silky strands of silver on the top of Duke’s head. Anytime he thought of that image it made him see dark things. Made him feel like he could actually be mean. Vaughan clenched his teeth together and thrust his solid erection deep between Duke’s thighs. It sought out what it wanted, craved… to claim.

Duke’s breath caught and he moaned seductively when Vaughan pressed hard into him. “What did you see, Vaughan? Tell me.”

Vaughan slid down lower, so he could lock eyes with his lover. Duke’s eyes were a smoldering, rich chocolate brown, but the outer rims simmered with a lighter shade of brown, almost like gold, when Duke was excited… aroused. Leaning in, he took Duke’s mouth in a punishing kiss, loving the way Duke gasped and panted into his mouth, straining for oxygen. But Vaughan held him pinned beneath him until he was ready to let him have air. “Let me fix it,” Duke pleaded when Vaughan let him breathe.

“You can’t fix that.” Vaughan licked down the back of Duke’s ear, into the nape of his neck. With his firm grip still on Duke’s hair he turned him to the side so he could have access to his neck. “I saw him with his hands on you.”

“Jesus,” Duke groaned. “How long ago was that?”

“Not near long enough.” Vaughan bit the side of Duke’s neck, hard enough to show he wasn’t kidding. The mere thought still drove him insane. Enough that he couldn’t stay and watch Duke pine for someone else. Especially a bastard as big and intimidating as Judge.

Duke hissed and tried to pry away from Vaughan’s assault. “Fuckin’ brat,” Duke growled back at him. “Just fuck me already. Then only that image will be in your head from now on.”

Vaughan licked at the puffy red welt he’d left on Duke’s throat. He burrowed his way back up to Duke’s mouth and kissed him gently, whispering to him. “I need to forget it. I need inside of you.” He looked down at their joined abdomens, reaching between them to lightly trace their similarities. “No matter what happens to us in the long run. I’m always there.” Vaughan pointed at the long incision along Duke’s pelvic bone.

Duke didn’t have much left to say. It twisted his stomach to know that Vaughan had come to him before and Duke was with someone else. Damn, that had to have hurt something wicked. He couldn’t imagine watching the person you love be intimate with someone else. He wished he could take all that away for Vaughan, but he wouldn’t know where to start. He didn’t regret his time with Judge. He was there when no one else was filling the void in his bed. But that’s all Judge filled. He never even came close to touching Duke’s heart, much less filling it.

Duke would only be able to show Vaughan what he meant; how different the importance was of the roles both men played in his life. He turned and positioned himself on his side and pulled a couple pillows down to drape his top thigh over it as he opened himself up for his lover. He stretched his casted arm in front of him and Vaughan settled comfortably behind him, curving his body around him. Duke reached his hand back and shamelessly pulled his ass cheeks apart, showing himself to his man. His most sacred offering. This was the fourth man he’d ever offered it to in his life and he hoped he’d be the last.

“I touch myself like this when you’re not with me.” Duke said breathlessly, as his fingertips danced across his hole, and every few swipes he’d push his middle finger in, just past the rim.

Vaughan groaned low and proud in his throat. “You think about me when you’re in this big bed all alone?”

“Yes,” Duke purred. “Only you. I need you so badly there. Just you, Vaughan.”

He felt Vaughan place his finger over top of Duke’s while he continued to tease himself. “You look so fuckin’ sexy doing that. I wanna watch you pleasure yourself one night. As if I’m not in bed with you. I just want to watch while you call my name out when you orgasm.”

“Vaughan. Come on,” Duke groaned. He’d do anything Vaughan asked, to be honest. But waiting was killing him. Thinking about using his flesh-toned seven-inch dildo on himself while Vaughan sat back with his hard cock leaking on his stomach and watched him. Duke wouldn’t last two minutes. He’d feel Vaughan’s presence there and he’d explode. He didn’t even want a lot of prep now; one or two fingers would be enough stretching. He wanted this wonderful man to fill him and press deep inside him. He pressed his own cock into the soft folds of the pillow but it didn’t give him near enough of what he needed. He needed friction, contact. Before he could complain, he heard Vaughan spit behind him then felt the slick feel of two fingers pushing into him.

“You can take it can’t you, sweetheart?” Vaughan said behind him. His voice had dipped to that strong, breathless baritone pitch as he pushed deeper into Duke’s channel. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth through the sweet burn. With his own fingers still in the mix he traced his stretched hole around Vaughan’s long digits.

“The lube and condoms are in my top drawer,” Duke added after enjoying a few more deep strokes. Sighing each time Vaughan pushed against his ass. A few seconds later he heard the top of the lube click and the sound of the liquid squirting from the tube.

“I think it’s okay to bypass the condom don’t you? I mean. One of my organs is inside you, sweetheart. If I have something in my blood, it’s pretty safe to say you probably do, too,” Vaughan said, his tone full of amusement and lust.

Duke partly chuckled and part moaned when he thought about the truth in Vaughan’s statement right before a blunt tip pushed at his twitching hole.

“Are you ready?” Vaughan licked the shell of Duke’s ear, continuing to press inside instead of waiting on an answer.

“Oh, fuck yes. All the way, Vaughan. As deep as you… Ahhhhhh… Fuuuuck.” Duke panted harshly as Vaughan continued an endless dive into his body. While his man’s cock wasn’t stretching him beyond capacity, he was sinking that long cock deeper than anyone else ever had.

When Duke finally felt the prickly hairs at the base of Vaughan’s dick, Duke pushed back further, hoping there might be an inch left untapped.

“Easy, baby.” Vaughan gripped Duke’s hip hard, keeping him securely in place. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

“Never,” Duke whispered, turning his head, seeking out Vaughan’s soft mouth. Even at that angle, Vaughan was able to lean over and capture Duke in a searing kiss, his mouth open wide, his tongue plunging deep into his while his cock sat buried to the extremity inside his pulsating ass. “Please keep going.”

“Oh, god. I love how you beg. So damn beautiful.” Vaughan pulled out a couple inches and pressed back in, keeping the thrusts slow and shallow. Whenever Vaughan would drive all the way back in, Duke would grunt a curse word, and it turned him on like nothing ever had.

With one hand under Duke’s neck, his palm against his cheek keeping him turned towards Vaughan’s mouth. The other continued to hold Duke’s hips. After Duke was able to control himself he felt Vaughan’s hand move over and splay across his ass. “I love the hair you have here and around your dark hole. It’s sexy.” Vaughan breathed a soft escape of air into Duke’s open mouth each time his cockhead sank deeper.

With their foreheads pressed together, Vaughan kept up a steady and smooth rhythm. Duke felt Vaughan reach down and pull the covers back up to their waist. Covering them both and wrapping his arm up and across Duke’s chest, securing him to him. Vaughan linked his fingers over Duke’s shoulder and pushed him down as he eased up. It was a gentle forcefulness that made Duke see stars. That wonderful cock touching places he didn’t think could be reached. It made him cry out to Vaughan for more. Regardless who heard, he made sure Vaughan knew that what he was doing to him had never been done before.

Vaughan rubbed all over his chest. Squeezing his pecs and twisting his nipples, while still keeping his movements slow and stimulating, never amping up the tempo to where things could get rough and frantic. It was so romantic and sensual, perfect for their first time. The room was dim, the candles’ flames casting a beautiful luminance on their lovemaking. And that’s what it was. As much as Duke loved to be rode hard, he couldn’t deny how wonderful the feelings were that he and Vaughan shared. And based on the sounds coming from behind him he was confident that his new lover was pleased.

“Oh, Duke. Damn I’ve waited so long. Nothing has ever felt this good to me. I love you so much. Come on, sweetheart. Come with me. I need to come inside you.” Vaughan’s movements became less rhythmic, jerkier. “I feel like I can’t get deep enough.”

Duke gasped for breath when Vaughan went deeper. “It’s deep enough, babe. Trust me. It’s so fuckin’ deep.”

Vaughan’s smile could be felt against Duke’s cheek. “Yeah. And you’re so tight. Like you’ve been waiting for me.” Vaughan pulled all the way out until the tip of his cock was just outside Duke’s hole before he eased all the way in to the root.

Duke screamed out, his orgasm slamming into him with full force, completely taking him by surprise. “Vaughan! Fuck! I’m coming!” Duke groaned like he was in excruciating pain but Vaughan was making sounds very similar to his as he felt warmth flood his already hot channel. “Oh, god. I feel you. Feel you inside me.”

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Duke’s confined heat seared Vaughan through his shaft to his aching balls. A spark ignited in his groin and radiated through every part of his body that was in contact with Duke’s—which was all of him. Nothing could’ve prepared him for the real thing. To finally have his heart’s desire.

Vaughan held on to Duke for dear life as he let his seed flood him. “Fuck, you’ve got a sexy hole.” Vaughan breathed heavily even though the loving had been slow. His orgasm had stolen his breath away.

They laid there for an unknown amount of time, holding and loving each other.

“Was it worth it?” Duke said into Vaughan’s bicep, which was pressed against his cheek.

“Every damn year that I waited for you was worth every second of what we just did.” Vaughan eased out of Duke’s ass. He watched his come drip out of Duke’s hole and slick down the hairs that surrounded his opening. A sight he’d never tire of.

“How are you feeling?” Duke sounded like he was almost asleep.

“I feel like I’m floating. I’ll be right back.”

“Don’t go.”

“I’m gonna get us a washcloth and clean you up and then you’re going to sleep in my arms until the sun rises.”

“Hmm,” Duke hummed his approval.

When Vaughan finally finished cleaning himself off and brought a warm cloth for Duke, his man was already asleep. He couldn’t help but puff his chest out. Carefully, he wiped Duke’s thighs and crease free of his juices, then oh so gently wiped over Duke’s stretched hole. He wanted to push his finger back inside and stroke until they were both ready to go again, but he wouldn’t dare deprive Duke of some much needed rest.

He blew out the candles and made his way back to the other side off the bed. Again he pulled up the covers and folded himself back over Duke’s prone body.
Damn, he’s the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen.
Squeezing Duke tighter to him, Vaughan cleared his mind of all thoughts except Duke and drifted into a peaceful sleep.