And I Am Happy (9 page)

“I thought myself obvious.” There were
crinkles at the corners of his master’s eyes, though he kept his
head away and his gaze on Will’s skin as he slowly exposed more of
it. He pushed Will’s shirt to the floor and Will shuddered lightly.
He had never been anywhere near this naked before his master.

“You are never obvious, sir.” Will wanted to
frown and could not, not with his master pulling down his trousers
too. They tumbled down to Will’s ankles. He thought his master
pleased and would have stripped his own clothes away if Charlie
wished it, but the slow motions of Charlie’s hands kept him from
moving. He thought perhaps his master had imagined undressing him
like this. Will was not about to deny him.

His master seemed like a man made of fire. He
always had, but now he was touching Will, laying hands on him with
such intent that Will could not move. He was undressed and undone
and all but in his master’s bed.

“You want me here too?” Will did not add
sir
. He could not though he got a frown that made his heart
race. Charlie finally looked up into his face again. His gaze was
dark and earnest and resolute.

“Do you think I would risk the wrath of my
sisters for anything less?” Charlie spoke quietly, causing Will to
recall Miss Ann’s words and feel a distant shock. His master only
grew more passionate at Will’s silence. He struck like lightening,
leaving Will to shiver in awe. “Do you think I don’t love you? I
thought you know of the nights I have spent awake wishing you
beside me, dreaming you were just as torn and aching as I was.” He
didn’t seem to see Will’s desperate nod as Will tried to express
the multitude of feelings in his heart. “Yes, I want you here. As
long you want to be here I want you here.” At that Charlie paused
and glanced away. His firm tone faded away. “If you are sure you
want to be here. I will not punish you if you say no. I would
understand.”

Will’s face was hot. Outrage made the words
stick in his throat. As that could ever be doubted, as if he would
have said no. “If you punished me, sir, I would still stay,” he bit
out. He held to that truth as he would hold to the knowledge that
Charlie loved him. “You are my master,” Will declared, bold and
impossible, “
mine
.”

He knew he had startled Charlie, knew it from
the silence and the hot breath at his collarbone. Then Charlie
inhaled and leaned forward to speak into Will’s skin. “Then please
get into my bed, Will,” his master whispered at last, punctuating
it with a kiss that did not make it any less of a command. His
hands dug into Will’s hips. “I do not understand you,” he admitted
in the next moment, “but stay. Do not leave me.”

Will put his hands to the bed and climbed up,
straddling his master’s lap and leaning over him in a way that made
him dizzy. Or perhaps that was the look in his master’s eyes as his
hands slid up Will’s back and drew him closer.

People would have much to say about this.
Even Will could not fully credit it, even with Charlie’s mouth at
his throat. He held a hand in the air for some time before dropping
it to his master’s shoulder. The metal was warm, the skin warmer.
Will splayed out his fingers and felt Charlie’s approving moan echo
through his chest.

“I do not understand how I am either, sir,”
Will confessed as though he was not clinging to Charlie with a
tighter and tighter grip. “All you need know is that I will serve
you however you require, though I am not nearly what you
deserve.”

“Hush, Will,” his gentleman murmured, giving
a groan that Will no longer thought was pain, “you are mine and I
am happy.”

“Yes, sir,” Will agreed, and listened, as he
would for no other.

The End

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