Before You

CHAPTER NINE



Roth studied his on-and-off lover. Going with his gut instinct, he invited, “Come home with me, Adam. And, stay the night.”



“Okay.” That gloriously beautiful man squeezed his hand. “I was born Adam Taggart”



Roth smiled, accepting the man’s at least partial surrender. “Good to finally have a name.”



“Go ahead. I’ll grab a few things and follow you.”



Roth didn’t think he should doubt him. However, he had a niggling reservation. “I felt like this the first night I met you. Afraid to look away for fear you’ll vanish.”



“I haven’t given you reason to trust me,” Adam replied, meeting his gaze.



“Now’s your chance.” Roth released his hand and turned toward the door. Adam caught his arm. About-facing, he saw the other man’s face coming close and groaned. Adam’s lips touched his in a surprisingly soft, almost chaste kiss. “Hurry,” Roth whispered.



“I have a better idea. Give me a few minutes and I’ll ride with you.”



Roth kind of melted inside. Standing patiently, he waited as Adam went into the bedroom, rifled around, and emerged with a small duffel. “Ready.”



Thrilled by the combination of new honesty and the fact he would have Adam for the night, Roth experienced a lightness in himself. So much time had passed since experiencing it, he almost didn’t know how react. He descended ahead, and moved quickly to open the car door. Closing it after his guest, he rounded the car and got behind the wheel.



Before he had cleared the complex parking lot, his companion’s long arm slid behind his neck and that beautiful mouth pressed to Roth’s jaw. Gooseflesh erupted in the wake as it moved along his jaw to his ear.



“Christ, Adam.” Roth struggled not to close his eyes as the man used his warm tongue to trace his ear, then delve inside the sensitive canal. “I have to drive.”



“You’re a doctor. You can concentrate on multiple tasks.”



Adam scooted his fine, narrow ass closer. Roth wanted to hold him. Steering and changing gears occupied his hands. “Don’t test me. You turn me on too much.”



Adam bit Roth’s throat, hand pulling his shirt from the waistband of his jeans. “I want to have the appetizer before the entrée.”



Roth had to force his attention to lights and signs as his erotically skilled lover used his mouth to send sexual lightning through him. Scintillating sensation raked him as Adam leaned down to suck and lick his nipples. “When I have you behind a locked door, I’m going to fuck you half to death.”



Adam massaged Roth’s erection as he sat upright to blow long, slow, warm breaths into Roth’s ear. “I look forward to it.”



Roth turned his head when he had the chance, stealing sultry kisses from his lover at intersections and lights. He loved the way Adam tasted.



They got caught at one light beside a Jeep-load of rowdy ladies. Adam devoted his attention to kissing Roth. He embraced Adam’s torso, savoring the man’s body half in his lap.



“Woo-hoo!”



“Yeah, boys! Share some of that stuff with us!”



The appreciative calls became more forward. “There’s four of us and two of you. Let’s take this party somewhere private!”



Adam reached over and lowered the electric window. In a flat tone, he said, “I found him first.” He raised the glass.



When they finally pulled into the garage, he slammed in the clutch, hit the door’s remote clipped to the visor above him, and turned off the ignition. He jumped out, leaving the keys hanging in it as he rounded the front of the car. Adam had Roth’s shirt off before they made it into the laundry room. Their mouths parted long enough for Adam’s to follow suit, then the aggressive mating of tongues continued as they stopped mid-kitchen.



Roth flexed his hips, rubbing his denim-covered erection against his lover’s. He broke the kiss, holding the other man’s jaw in his hands. Rubbing his thumbs over Adam’s cheekbones, he murmured, “Look at me.”



Those heavy black lashes lifted to reveal violet eyes liquid with passion. “You’re beautiful.”



“Is that what you want from me? A hot, beautiful fuck buddy to satisfy your body and leave the rest of you unknown?”



The sound of their accelerated respiration seemed very loud in the dim, quiet house. Adam swallowed. Roth tracked the working of the throat muscles. The hands moving over his chest promised sexual delight. However, Roth needed more.



“I don’t know,” his lover answered honestly. “Can we just take this one step at a time?” He leaned close, nibbling Roth’s lower lip and making rational thought difficult. “You’ve already broken my biggest barrier this evening.”



Seeing the new, and much appreciated softness in his lover’s eyes, Roth nodded. “Fair enough.”



As if in pre-arranged coordination, they embraced and their reunited mouths created a palpable surge of urgency. They stumbled and faltered, bumping into furniture in a blind, heated rush to remove their remaining clothes and reach Roth’s bedroom.



Adam fell back on the bed, hauling Roth down with him. “I need you in me,” he growled, deliciously feral and demanding. With nothing between them now save mutual lust, their bodies met skin to skin.



“You’re gonna have to wait.” He yanked open the nightstand drawer, took out the lubrication and dropped it beside them. Libidinous avarice gnawed his gut. Shifting lower, he helped himself to Adam’s delectable torso, biting, sipping at him, using his tongue to map the geography of his lover’s body.



Roth sucked Adam’s jerking erection into his hungry mouth and couldn’t tell who groaned louder.



“Please. Fuck me.”



His hands shook as he slicked his erection. His lover grabbed the covers, hauling them close and wadding them into a pillow for under his hips. Roth shuddered as the other man’s limbs embraced him, and gently pushed at the enticing threshold of Adam’s body. The welcome he received humbled him. Almost scalding, clinging heat and sensual nirvana wrapped his needy cock and his heart thumped roughly. “I’m never taking my dick out of you.”



Adam purred low in his flushing chest. “Don’t.”



Roth kept the bulk of his weight braced above the man he made love to, but leaned low to let their mouths join as their bodies did: hot, artless, urgent. This time, he refused to allow his partner silence. He adjusted the angle of his hips, and the thrust of his own until Adam cried out in primal, stark pleasure. Roth hammered him with cautious, considerate violence. They both shook and broke into a hard sweat.



“I’m close,” Roth panted, burning in the fire of their coupling.



“Me, too. Just nail me.”



Roth felt his climax rip down his spine and out his erection even as Adam’s semen pelted his chest and throat.