A Promise of Tomorrow (18 page)

Kyle moaned against his mouth, taut muscles flexing in his palms as the young man rubbed his cock and belly against James’s. He could feel Kyle panting against his neck as they strained together, his warm, moist breath heating James’s already fevered skin a moment before the younger man drew back to meet his eyes and begantuggingat James’s nightshirt.

He reluctantly let go of Kyle’s arse only when the man began making angry, frustrated noises at the nightshirt, which was trapped beneathhis knees.

James chuckled and leaned in to capture those frowning lips, sucking and nibbling at them as he moved to help. Together they managed to free him from his nightshirt, and once bared, James leaned back into the pillows, drawing Kyle on top of him again. As their bodies met, he reached downto grasp Kyle’s hips, urginghimto move against him. They rocked and rutted for several moments, and soon he could feel Kyle’s hands everywhere on his body, frantically stroking one moment and clenching about his shoulders and arms the next.

James couldn’t help but find Kyle’s urgency contagious. He wanted to take his time and explore this treasure, but he was fairly certain that that was not going to be possible. He finally had Kyle in his arms, someone he admired as a man as wellas desired as a lover, and the intensityofhis need was almost overwhelming.

He pulled Kyle closer still, melding their bodies together, pressing his face against Kyle’s neck and enjoying the warm, solid body pressed against his. He tried to force himself to slow down then, taking a deep breath and stilling his body, but his lover was having none of it. Kyle began wriggling in his arms, forcing his hand between them and gripping James’s shaft. When James felt him run his thumb over the crown, he gasped, and his hand flew to cover Kyle’s, holdingit still. That was too much.

“Wait,”he said throughclenched teeth. And to Kyle’s confused look, he replied, “Not yet, or we’llbe over before we’ve begun.”
Kyle smiled shyly, then gasped as James gripped him by the hips and flipped him onto his back, taking control again. Though he was finding Kyle’s combination of aggression and submission surprisingly intoxicating, he needed to take some control of their encounter, or it would be over alltoo soon.
Pressing Kyle into the mattress and using his weight to hold his lover still, he quickly undid the fastenings of Kyle’s trousers and pushed them down around his hips. Kyle lifted his hips to help, then reached for him, but James slid off the bed, taking Kyle’s trousers with him. Kyle lay back on the pillows, gazing up at him shyly and bitinghis bottomlip.
He was now completely bare, spread on his back in the moonlight, and James took a moment to simply look his fill. He could have wished for daylight for this moment, but if he were honest, he probablywould have embarrassed himselfifhe’d gottenthat wish.

“So beautiful,”he said huskily.

Kyle’s pale skin glowed in the silver light. His slender shaft arched beautifully over his smooth, flat belly, rising out of the coarse black thatch at its base. Lean limbs lightly dusted with dark hair lay spread wantonly on the bed as elegant, long-fingered hands reached out to him.

James purposefully avoided those hands and slid down the bed to lie between his thighs, and Kyle spread them wider to accommodate him, his glazed eyes fixed and his swollen lips moist and parted. James held his gaze as he lowered his face, stopping with his open mouth hovering just over Kyle’s leaking crown. He expelled a hot breath over the glistening head, smiling as it jumped and twitched over Kyle’s belly. Kyle gasped and fisted his hands in the linens.

“Please,”Kyle begged.

Needing no more encouragement, James wrapped his fist around Kyle’s cock, drawing down slightly on the foreskin, and ran his tongue over the flushed head. As the evidence of Kyle’s need exploded over his tongue, he hummed in pleasure and drew him further in, sucking and laving his way down to the base before drawingback up to the crowninone long, slow glide.

Kyle’s low moan vibrated through his body, and James felt his lover’s thighs clench on either side of him. Running his thumb over Kyle’s slit, spreading the beads of moisture that were escaping, he kissed and sucked down the underside, then ran his tongue wetly over Kyle’s bollocks, sucking one and then the other into his mouth. Kyle was whimpering in earnest now and bucking against him, but James put his palmflat onhis bellyto keep himstill.

“Patience, sweet,” he said, waiting for Kyle to still beneath his hand before taking Kyle back in his mouth and sucking on just the crown. As Kyle stilled beneath him, James let himslide slowly in and all the way to the back of his throat, then swallowed around him in reward. Kyle let out a strangled cry, his chest heaving and his body tremblingwiththe effort not to thrust.

“Good lord,”Kyle whimpered.

Feeling his own need throb in response to Kyle’s obvious pleasure, James decided perhaps he wasn’t going to be capable of slow and easy after all and began to suck in earnest. Drawing his lips tightly around Kyle’s shaft, he slid his hands around to cup his buttocks and urge himupward, givinghis permission.

It didn’t take long before Kyle took his meaning and began to thrust into his mouth, his back arching off the bed. Relaxing his throat and increasing his suction, James let Kyle thrust with abandon. He knew it wouldn’t be long by the shaking of Kyle’s body and the sweet, soft cries that were comingalmost unbrokennow. A few more quick thrusts, and Kyle’s hand flew to his mouth, stifling his cry as James felt his spend rushing into his mouth. James swallowed all that Kyle gave himand milked his shaft a few more times before relaxing his hands and allowing his lover to collapse back down on the bed, panting.

James licked his lips, savoring his lover’s flavor, then climbed up his body, taking Kyle’s mouth in a hungry kiss and giving him a taste of himself. Kyle returned the kiss with enthusiasm, wrapping his arms around James’s back and pullinghis knees up to cradle his hips.

The position sent a fresh pulse of need to his already aching cock, and James nudged Kyle to roll on his side, sliding behind him and pressing his erection against Kyle’s firm backside. Kissing and nuzzling Kyle’s neck, he cupped his hand behind Kyle’s knee and urged it upwards. As he continued to lick and nibble at Kyle’s neck and shoulders, he moved his hand to Kyle’s mouth, sliding his fingers across moist lips and pressingtheminside.

The feeling of his lover sucking and licking at his fingers sent a fresh wave of heat through him, and he was forced to rest his forehead against Kyle’s shoulder and just breathe for several moments before he could master himselfenoughto continue.

He withdrew his hand and slid it down to Kyle’s exposed opening, playing lightly around it and feeling Kyle tremble against him. Wetting them again himself, he swirled his thumb around it, then moved to press his middle finger in to the first knuckle. He pumped the finger inand out onlythat smallamount, teasinghis lover.

He knew he would have to find oil before they could go much further. Kyle was tight, and he didn’t want to hurt him, so for now he would content himself with simply playing… at least until he could be assured his legs would support him long enough to stand and go lookingfor the vial.

He continued to play and tease, steadying his own breathing and nibbling on his lover’s shoulder and neck until he felt Kyle go completelystillagainst him. It was thenthat James realized the panting and moaning breaths had ceased and Kyle was no longer writhing in his arms.

James stilled his hand as soon as the realization hit and asked, “Kyle, are youallright?”
“Yes,”he replied, but James could hear the straininhis voice.
When the rest of his blood finally made it back up to his brain, James understood his mistake.
“Damn!” he swore, removing his hand completely. “Kyle, forgive me. I’ma bloody fool. I know what happened, and I was still too blinded bymyownpassions to think. Please forgive me.”

“No, please don’t stop, please!” Kyle turned in his arms, and James could see his eyes glistening in the moonlight. “I want you to, truly!”

James shook his head and pulled further from Kyle’s back, appalled withhimself, his shaft alreadysoftening. “No, youdon’t have to do this, Kyle. Not for me, I promise you. I know what you went through must have been terrible. I would not be the cause of more pain.”

“No, please, I need this, I need you. I know you won’t hurt me. I need to feel you, to know the feeling of you inside me, to make me forget… anything that happened before. I know you’ll be careful with me. I know it,” Kyle said, his words tumbling over each other as he reached to grab James’s hip to keep himfrompullingaway.

James stilled at the anxiety in his words and allowed the young man to pull him close lest he think James was rejecting him completely.

“Kyle,” he sighed, running his hand down his lover’s cheek. “You’re afraid. I can feelit in your body. I can hear it in your voice. I
will
hurt you if you’re afraid and can’t trust me. I won’t do that. I
can’t
do that.”

“Please, my lord. Please do this for me. I promise you won’t hurt me. I promise,” Kyle pleaded, and to James’s horror tears spilled out ofthe corners ofhis eyes.

James closed his eyes. Kyle was obviously getting more upset by the moment, and he didn’t want their first time together to end badly, but he wasn’t sure what to do. Gathering Kyle into his arms, he simplyheld onwhile he tried to think.

He wanted to give Kyle what he asked for, how he wanted it, but he couldn’t bear the thought of hurting him when there were so manyother ways for themto enjoyeachother.

After a while Kyle obviously became impatient with him, because he felt his hand grabbed and placed firmly on his lover’s arse. It was more of a command than an invitation, and the move startled himfromhis thoughts and gave himanidea.

He drew back, brought his hand back up to Kyle’s jaw, and lifted his face into moonlight. Looking into his eyes, he said, “If this is truly what you want, then I won’t deny you. But it will be on my terms. I believe we may both get what we want if you can trust me and do as I bid. Canyoudo that?”

“Yes, ohyes, anything,”Kyle replied eagerly.

 

James stared into Kyle’s eyes for a moment longer before he nodded and rolled to the edge ofthe bed.

“First, I would like you to call me by my given name, James. I believe we’re long past the need for formality,” he said with a wry smile that Kyle returned shyly.

“Second, I believe we need more light. I need to be able to see you,” James said as he rose to light the lamp on his night table. He then rooted about the room, finding his vial of oil and two cravats. Smiling at Kyle’s confused frown, he returned to sit on the bed, placingthe vialofoilonthe night table and handinghimthe cravats.

“Do you trust me?” he asked again, looking deeply into those enchantinggreeneyes now that theycould see one another better. “Yes… James,”Kyle said simply.

He smiled again. His name sounded every bit as sweet coming from Kyle’s mouth as he’d imagined it would, and he felt his blood heatingagaininresponse.

He leaned in to capture those wonderful lips, keeping the contact teasing and light. He plucked at Kyle’s lips over and over withhis own, never lingering long enough for the other man to deepen the kiss. He continued to tease Kyle’s lips and tongue as he crawled around him, forcing the young man to follow. He leaned back against the headboard, and Kyle leaned into him now that he couldn’t get away. He let Kyle deepenthe kiss for a few moments before drawing back and placingfingers against his lips.

“Now, I want you to use those to tie my wrists to the bed,” James said, pointingto the cravats lyingforgotteninKyle’s lap.

Kyle looked startled for a moment; then he swallowed, bit his lip, and pushed up on his knees to comply. James raised his arms to make things easier, and soon Kyle was crawling around himto tie the other wrist.

Having never been on this end of this kind of play, he was surprised to find he enjoyed the delicious thrill of fear that tingled across his skin as he was bound. It heightened his senses such that every brush of Kyle’s skin against his was magnified. Even the slightest brush of those nimble fingers on his wrists or of thigh against thigh felt as if he were being stroked somewhere far more intimate. He made a mental note to visit the idea again in future, when he wasn’t so distracted withconcernfor his lover.

After Kyle finished, he sat back on his heels, looking to James for more direction. He made such a pretty picture kneeling on his bed in the lamplight that James couldn’t help a proprietary smirk from playingacross his lips before he turned to examine his lover’s work.

The restraints looked more like bows than knots, but James hid his smile, not wantingto hurt Kyle’s feelings. He had undoubtedlytied them loosely because he was afraid to hurt him, but it didn’t matter. They would have the desired effect, and that was all James really cared about. He would be able to free himselfifabsolutelynecessary, but Kyle would believe himhelpless.

James tugged on themgently, demonstrating his “helpless” state for his lover, and said, “Verygood, now kiss me.”

Kyle seemed quite willing to comply, leaning in and claiming James’s mouth with enthusiasm. He knew the very moment Kyle realized James could no longer do anything to hold him back, because he suddenly cupped James’s jaw in surprisingly strong hands, and his kiss became ravenous. James allowed him free rein, simply enjoying the feel of Kyle’s lips and tongue on his own and the pressure ofKyle’s renewed arousalagainst his hip.

After several long moments, Kyle broke away, panting, and stared uncertainly into James’s eyes, seemingly a little startled at his forwardness and perhaps afraid of criticism. James smiled encouraginglyand took a moment to catchhis breath, thensaid, “You may touch me and explore me as you please, however, if I tellyou to stop, youwillstop. Is that understood?”

Kyle nodded and began running his hands over James’s chest and stomach, then looked back into James’s eyes, biting his lip. He looked so nervous that James took pity on him again and said, “Would youlike me to tellyouwhat to do?”

Kyle blushed and nodded again, smiling shyly. “I don’t know what youintend,”he said quietly. “I’ve never done anythinglike this.” As Weir had always struck him as a selfish and unimaginative man, James wasn’t surprised to hear it.