The Law of Attraction (13 page)

“Sorry, Hopalong.” Alec grinned. “I forgot.” He let go of Ed’s hand and wrapped an arm around him instead, encouraging Ed to lean on him. “Better?”

“Much.” Ed put his arm around Alec’s waist and held on tight.

When they turned down a side street where it was quieter and darker, Alec couldn’t wait anymore. He brought them to a stop and tugged Ed around to face him.

“What?” Ed’s face was beautiful, his features heightened by the play of light and shadow.

Alec put his hands up to touch Ed’s cheeks, then slid his hands around the back of Ed’s neck and pulled him gently into a kiss. Ed made a soft, humming sound of approval, wrapping his arms around Alec until their bodies were fused. His lips were cool, but the inside of his mouth was warm and sleek.

They kissed until Alec was breathless. He pulled away to stare at Ed again. Giddy with the wild, reckless freedom of kissing Ed like this, out under the sky instead of hidden away, he smiled wide and joyful, and Ed smiled back.

They kissed again in the hotel lift. Alec couldn’t wait. Impatient and desperate, it was as though the years had dropped away and he was a teenager again. He’d kissed countless men before, he’d fucked and sucked, but he’d never felt like this. Everything was new and thrilling and terrifying all at once.

“My room?” he asked as the lift reached their floor. He was suddenly afraid Ed might pull away, that he might have changed his mind.

“Yours has the better view, but do you have condoms?”

“Fuck, no.” Alec couldn’t believe he hadn’t thought of that. “I’ll run back down and find a late-night shop or a pub with a machine in the toilets.”

“I’ve got some. Let’s go to my room.” Ed took Alec’s hand and tugged him along the corridor.

“You packed some?” Alec wasn’t sure whether to be flattered or offended that Ed thought he was so easy.

“I didn’t think I’d get to use them, but now I’m glad for my relentless optimism. It paid off for once.”

As soon as they were inside Ed’s room with the door locked behind them, they kissed again. Desperate for Ed’s skin, for his touch, Alec didn’t know where to begin. He didn’t want to stop kissing him, but he wanted him naked. They stripped each other between kisses, cursing as buttons stuck and heads got trapped in T-shirts, but somehow they managed to get all their clothes off.

“Hang on. Lube and condoms are in the bathroom.” Ed went to get them.

Alec watched his arse as he went, and admired the sway of his hard cock as he returned.

“Here.” Ed tossed the supplies down on the bed.

They paused then, facing each other.

“What do you want to do?” Ed asked.

“Anything. Everything. Whatever you want?”

“Anything?” Ed raised his eyebrows, looking amused.

Alec couldn’t think of anything he’d refuse Ed right now, but he was still relieved when Ed took Alec’s cock in his hand and said, “I’d really like you to fuck me again. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you inside me.”

Fucking Ed was well within Alec’s comfort zone, and given how many boundaries Alec had already pushed tonight, maybe that was for the best. “Okay,” he said. “I can do that.”

Ed stroked him, his hand firm and tight as he asked. “How do you want me?”

Alec grabbed Ed’s hips and walked him back towards the bed. “Like this.” He pushed him down and Ed scooted back, spreading his thighs so Alec could crawl between them. “Perfect.”

Now he’d finally got Ed where he wanted him, Alec was in no rush, and Ed seemed to pick up on the change of pace. They kissed lazily, letting their hands roam. Alec mapped out the smoothness of Ed’s skin with his palms, and Ed combed his fingers through the rough hair on Alec’s chest.

“It feels so good against my nipples,” Ed muttered between kisses.

Alec moved lower to tease Ed’s nipples with his lips and tongue, loving the way they hardened for him and the way Ed gasped and slid his fingers into Alec’s hair as he did it. He worked his way down Ed’s torso, over the warm skin of his stomach, down to the cradle of his hips where the skin stretched tight over his hipbones as Ed arched up, spreading his legs wider. Alec looked up at him as he lowered his mouth to Ed’s cock and licked, tasting him, smelling his scent, watching the flush on his cheeks as he stared down at Alec.

“Fuck,” Ed gasped as Alec finally sucked him, taking him deep for a moment before bobbing back up with a swirl of his tongue. Alec was torn, wanting to keep his mouth on Ed for longer, but suspecting Ed wouldn’t last long if he did. He felt like a kid in a playground. He wanted to do all the things at once—fuck him, suck him, eat him out. He moaned around Ed’s cock, overwhelmed by the strength of his desire.

Ed made the decision for him. Grabbing the lube and condoms and passing them down to Alec, he said, “Please. Fuck me. I want to come with you inside me.” He hooked his hands under his knees and pulled them back.

Alec remembered their first night together, when Ed had lain like this, opening himself up for Alec’s cock. Ed had been a stranger then. Now he was so much more.

Alec rolled the condom on first and then squeezed some lube into his palm. He slicked his cock and used his fingers on Ed.

At the first gentle touch on his hole, Ed moaned, pushing against him. The tips of Alec’s fingers slipped inside, but Ed shook his head. “Your cock,” he said. “Just use your cock.”

“You sure?”

“Yes, Alec. Please.”

As Alec lined himself up, Ed lay back, watching him with hooded eyes. His cheeks were flushed and his lips pink and shiny from their kisses. With his dirty-blond hair tumbling over one eye, he looked like a debauched angel. When Alec pushed inside in one slow, steady thrust of his hips, Ed moaned, squeezing his eyes shut.

“Okay?” Alec rolled his hips carefully, withdrawing just a little. God, Ed felt amazing. He was tight and hot, and Alec wanted to fuck him into the middle of next week.

“Yes.” But there was tension in Ed’s voice, and Alec knew he wasn’t comfortable yet. He wasn’t asking Alec to stop, so Alec kept moving gently, shifting his weight slightly and tilting Ed’s legs to see if he could find a better angle.

“Oh yes. Fuck.” Ed’s eyes flew open. He grabbed Alec’s hips and pulled. “Like that, but harder.”

“Yeah?” Alec grinned, breathless. He could do harder.

Propping himself up on his forearms, he slammed into Ed, fucking him like he’d been dreaming about ever since their first time. This time it was even better, because it meant something. Alec didn’t know what, exactly, and maybe it only meant something that would end in heartache, but at this moment, with Ed under him, moaning and urging him on, Alec didn’t care about anything outside this room. He stared into Ed’s eyes and their gazes locked. There was so much emotion there—heat and passion, along with something softer that was frightening in its intensity. Alec could see it in Ed’s face as much as he could feel it in his own heart. He wondered whether it was written all over his features too, whether Ed could see what Alec saw reflected back at him in a feedback loop of need and want and hopeless longing.

“God, Alec,” Ed slid a hand into his hair and tugged Alec down into a messy kiss, and it was almost a relief that Alec could no longer see his face because it was too much.

Everything slowed down again. Desperate urgency became a slow, languid build of pleasure. With Ed’s tongue in his mouth and Ed’s cock hard between their stomachs, Alec spiralled slowly towards orgasm. He wanted to make Ed come, but he couldn’t focus. Ed was like a drug, enhancing his senses and stealing his reason. He was dimly aware of Ed slipping a hand between them, and he felt the bump of Ed’s knuckles as he jerked himself off. Wet heat spilled between them, and the sensation of Ed’s walls pulsing around him dragged Alec over. He groaned, pulling away from the kiss and burying his face into Ed’s shoulder as he came and came, shaking with the force of it.

Alec’s brain came back online in fractured pieces. First he noticed the scent of Ed’s skin. Next he registered the soft stroke of Ed’s fingers on the back of his neck.

“Jesus,” Alec murmured, his body limp and useless. “Sorry, am I squashing you?”

“A bit.” Ed’s voice was warm and husky next to his ear. “But only in a good way.”

Alec chuckled. He managed to lift his head and press a kiss to Ed’s lips. “I’ll move in a minute.”

Ed slid his arms around Alec’s body and held him close. “No rush.”

Alec finally roused himself when his cock started to soften. In danger of losing the condom, he pulled out carefully, knotted it, and tossed it onto the floor. “I’ll get it later,” he said as he flopped onto his back beside Ed.

Ed snuggled closer and threw an arm over Alec’s chest. Alec’s heart squeezed, and a rush of emotion took his breath away.

“Will you stay?” Ed asked. “I’m not ready for tonight to be over.”

“I could probably go for round two a little later,” Alec said lightly. It was easier to keep this about the sex. He wasn’t ready to find words for the feelings that tightened his chest and made his heart beat faster.

“Sounds good.”

They lay quietly for a while.

Ed stroked his hand over Alec’s chest, tracing the shape of his muscles and ribs under the soft dark hair. “You’re so gorgeous,” he murmured. “It’s been killing me, being around you in the office, knowing what you look like naked under those sharp suits of yours.”

Alec smiled. “Same. I have to force myself not to keep staring at your arse.”

Deep down, Alec knew this wasn’t just about sex anymore, not for him, anyway. He thought about how exponentially more difficult it was going to be keeping his feelings for Ed under wraps now he’d had this—this intimacy, the sweetness of this evening. He kissed the top of Ed’s head, breathing in his warm, comforting scent, and he wished with all his heart that things were different.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Ed listened to the thump of Alec’s heart. He had come drying on his belly, but he didn’t want to move. He was afraid that if he left the bed to clean up, the mood would be broken. After five weeks of unbearable sexual tension, antagonism, and then finally a slow drift into something easier between them, he still couldn’t believe they’d found their way here.

Even in Ed’s wildest fantasies, he hadn’t dared to dream of this. Alec’s arms around him, Alec kissing his hair, the way Alec had looked at him while he’d thrust into him, like Ed was the centre of his universe. His feelings for Alec were careering out of control, way past the physical, and he didn’t think he was alone on that ride. But Alec had made it very clear they only had tonight.

Just one more night
.

Ed wasn’t sure his heart could stand it. But it was too late now. If they only had tonight, he was damn well going to make the most of it.

The second time they fucked, Ed took charge. Alec had dozed off, and Ed woke him with his mouth on his cock. He sucked him into hardness, tasting musk and salt as Alec swelled against his tongue. Alec brought his hands down to smooth Ed’s hair away from his face, and Ed looked up to see his smile.

Ed pulled off so he could grin back. “Round two?”

“I think it could be arranged. What did you have in mind?”

“You can just lie there and look sexy. I’m doing all the work this time.”

Alec chuckled. “I can do that.”

He put one hand behind his head so he could see better, and Ed admired the dark hair in his armpit and the curve of his bicep. “Yeah. You’re excellent at that,” he agreed.

Ed rolled the condom onto Alec, lubed him up, and lowered himself onto Alec’s cock, inch by decadent inch. He held Alec’s gaze as he did it, and there was that expression again. For a poker-faced lawyer, Alec sucked at hiding his feelings in the bedroom. Ed wasn’t complaining. He didn’t think he’d ever get tired of seeing Alec look at him like that. He pushed away the thought that this was probably the last time it would ever happen. Now wasn’t the time to be worrying about the future. The present was too good to ruin.

When he’d taken Alec all the way inside, Ed leaned back a little and stroked his own cock until he was fully hard. Alec watched him, his eyes dark and hungry now. He brought his hands to Ed’s thighs and stroked, rubbing the sensitive hairs the wrong way as he slid his hands higher so that his thumbs skimmed Ed’s balls. “Are you planning on moving? Or are you just going to sit there and jerk off on me? Because while the view is very pleasant, I wouldn’t say no to a little action.”

Ed rolled his hips, squeezing his muscles as he lifted himself up, before letting gravity pull him back down. He did it again, and then again. “Like this, you mean?”

“Yeah,” Alec said breathlessly, “that’s exactly the sort of thing I had in mind.”

Ed rode Alec slowly and deliberately, seeking his own pleasure while watching Alec’s reactions. What worked for Ed seemed to be working for Alec too. A deep flush spread down Alec’s neck, and soon he was moaning, arching up into each downward movement of Ed’s. He gripped Ed’s hips, trying to take control and make him go faster, so Ed grabbed his wrists and pushed them over his head, pressing them into the pillow. “
No
. I want it slow.”

Alec groaned in frustration, but he let Ed hold him down and kiss him for a while. Ed was getting close, but he needed more. Sitting up again he wrapped a hand around his cock. He rode Alec faster, stroking himself as Alec watched. The heat of Alec’s gaze rippled through Ed, lighting him up.

“Ed.” Alec’s voice was rough and the desperate sound of his name on Alec’s lips drove Ed higher, closer, right to the edge… and then he was tumbling over into bliss. He cried out as he gripped Alec with his thighs, fighting to stay upright as he came, cock pulsing and spilling over his hand and Alec’s stomach.

“Fuck, that was hot.” Alec was looking at him like he’d seen God.

“You didn’t come yet, did you?” Ed wasn’t sure. In the throes of his own orgasm, it had been hard to tell.

Alec shook his head. “Nearly, but not quite.”

Ed tried a tentative lift of his hips. He was still sensitive from coming, and he couldn’t hold back a hiss as Alec’s cock brushed his prostate. It wasn’t unpleasant; it was just… a lot. But the expression on Alec’s face made the slight discomfort worth it.