Zombies Ahead (Club Zombie, Book One) (9 page)

Kai covered his face as he recalled parts of the dream. He definitely had needed him. He had been begging the two Jaspers to have their way with him. He remembered how he kept begging for more like a slut. Kai let himself be spanked and fucked and sucked off. He really was an abomination like his uncle had always said.

A firm hand clasped his shoulder. “Lots of disturbing things are challenging what you have always believed. It is natural to be confused.”

Kai uncovered his very red face and just looked at Jasper. He really was more handsome than a Hollywood star. And the guy was just so nice. Would it be so bad if…
Yes, it would! He wasn’t gay.
End of discussion.

When he didn’t say anything, Jasper nodded with a tiny smile. “So have you heard from your cousin?”

Breathing a sigh of relief at the topic change, he met Jasper’s eyes. “Yeah, yesterday.” He frowned.

“What?”

“I just really miss him, you know?” He ate some more cereal.

Pushing away the idea that Ulrich would be in one of those rooms from last night looking for his mate. “I should call him.”

“Of course. I am going to get ready for the competition.” He stood up and leaned against the table.

“Competition?”

Jasper smiled. “Not really a competition. More like a game. It helps…”

“With what?” Kai asked curiously as he stood up moving towards Jasper.

Jasper looked at him for a long moment. “I don’t get any other type of physical release, so I learned that pushing myself with exercise and games helps me relax.”

Kai’s face may have caught fire as he tried not to think about the physical release he had all over his sheets. He lamely said, “Oh.” This was his future if he didn’t find his mate.

A hand fell onto his shoulder. “It’s not that bad, really.” Jasper smiled a little at him.

He looked up at him as the pressure of the hand eased off his shoulder. Jasper was staring down at Kai as if he were trying to read him. Kai got lost in those gentle eyes wanting someone to explain his feelings to him.
It wasn’t like he didn’t find him …um, males attractive, it was that…
His heart began to race as he fought the pull to kiss the gorgeous man in front of him. His dream vision was standing before him in real life. Memories of his dreams from this morning invaded his thoughts. Part of him desperately wanted fantasy and reality to collide, and the other part told him to run.

Kai’s body had unconsciously gotten closer to Jasper, their hips were almost touching. Jasper was leaning against the table not moving. He seemed to be waiting for Kai to do something.

The only thing he seemed capable of doing was breathing. Panting. Kai tried to get air into his lungs to slow the energy that seemed to propel him into action. He was so close to everything he shouldn’t want so desperately. His cock had gone hard with this uncontrollable need. He hated it. He loved it. He didn’t understand it.
Or maybe he just didn’t want to understand it.

Jasper did nothing the entire time except watch him. He didn’t encourage or discourage anything; he seemed to be waiting. Kai seemed to be spinning himself up into knots of emotion while Jasper remained untouched by what Kai felt zapping between them. He seemed to feel none of the need that was chewing Kai up inside. Embarrassment and shame washed over him for his one-sided silly schoolboy crush.

Kai looked away so he could step back. Away from Jasper’s heat, he was hoping to pull himself back from this irrational need for the man. He muttered, “I’ll go call my cousin before I head down to the pond.”

Jasper folded his arms in front of him, “See you in a bit.”

Relief washed over him as he shut his bedroom door. Humiliation rained down on him as he thought about how he panted after Jasper. The man must have known how much Kai wanted him. He glared down to his erection that made it difficult to miss. Readjusting himself felt good, so he squeezed.

“Mmmmm,” Kai softly moaned. Maybe a call to Ulrich could wait until later. He went into his bathroom. It was the most private place he could find. He stripped off his clothing and started the shower. When it was a nice temperature, he stepped under the spray.

He took some shower gel and resentfully wrapped a fist around his cock. Kai pulled it straight out from his body. The annoyance of an inconvenient hard cock faded into the sharp pleasure he received as he worked it.

Within a minute, images of Jasper standing at the table staring at him flashed through his mind. Kai’s mind took wild liberties. His mind manufactured another fantasy. This time Jasper pushed Kai down on the table. His pants were ripped open, and Jasper’s sweet wet mouth was sucking at his proud erection. He was being forced to accept the pleasure of Jasper’s talented mouth.

Nice strong phantom sucks drove him insane as his fist moved faster. He paused to pump more shower gel into his palms. The fingers of his left hand scooped some up and reached behind him. He never played with his ass before, but the dream enticed him into experimenting. One soapy finger slipped in, and the other hand wrapped back around his cock to tug.

He wiggled his finger inside his hole gently as his cock started reacting wildly. It felt odd, but good. His mind exchanged his finger for Jasper’s long finger. His imaginary lover was breaching him gently as his mouth sucked him off.

Sensation weaved through his body as his mind fantasized. Within seconds, he was emptying himself against the wall of the shower. He bit back a scream of completion, allowing only a soft moan to escape. His fist stroked through his pleasure until he was breathless.

Oh. Wow.

He rinsed and turned the shower off. He dried himself and went to lie down on his bed for a moment.
Fuck! That was strong.
Kai must have fallen into a deep slumber because when he became conscious Jasper was standing over him.

At first he thought it was a dream. He almost reached for him, but he had just enough willpower not to do so.

Jasper’s dreamy face broke into a tender smile. “Sorry, I thought you would want me to wake you. Corey just called to ask where you were.”

Kai realized he was lying in his bed naked except the towel barely thrown around his waist. “Geez, I didn’t mean to fall back asleep.”

Jasper’s gentle fingers moved some hair off his face so he couldn’t hide behind it. “You must have needed it because you’ve been out for a half an hour.”

“Oh. Um, yeah? I was… I, um…”

Jasper grinned. “No need to explain.”

Kai felt his face tint pink. He realized Jasper knew this was his second shower in two hours and must have easily put the pieces together.

“Come on. If you are ready to leave in ten minutes, I’ll walk down to the pond with you.”

Kai couldn’t help but smile. “Okay.” He wasn’t going to stop and question the fluttering of excitement he got by spending a little bit of time with Jasper. He wasn’t going to think at all.

Chapter Eight: Friends and Lovers

After a handshake from Jackson and a quick hug from Corey, Kai didn’t know what to say. They all sat down on the red plaid blanket spread out on the grass. Jackson seemed to be watching the game on the field. Corey seemed to be watching Kai which was making him rather uncomfortable. He tried to find something to talk about, so he asked a question he already knew the answer to, “How long have you guys been here?”

Corey smiled at him, and leaned back to relax on his palms. “We’ve been here twenty-one years.”

“Wow.” Doing the math that made them nearly forty, but they both looked like they were not even twenty. He blushed when a question he had no business asking came to his mind.

“What?” Corey asked as if he were taking in his red face smirked. “Oh, right. You were there last night. I saw you.” Corey’s smirked turned evil. “I can tell, you liked watching.”

Kai wanted to deny the statement, but he found he couldn’t. It wasn’t like this man was judging him, so he shrugged without committing.

“You probably want to know why we can still… erupt, shall we say?” He said it as if to reduce Kai’s embarrassment, but it only increased it tenfold.

“Jasper said you and Jackson were mates.” As if his name conjured up his devastatingly handsome apartment mate, the man raced past them on horseback. His muscles were rippling with his efforts. His brown wavy hair was bouncing over his shoulder like some romance novel model. He was so gorgeous and he made Kai want things he’d never desired before.

Corey cleared his throat, which brought Kai’s attention back to the conversation before he replied. “The doctor thinks since we are mates this allows us to maintain the ability to…” The guy looked right into his eyes before saying, “Spew.”

Kai wanted to die, but at the same time the expression on Corey’s face was pretty funny, so he laughed instead.

Looking down, Corey’s voice went soft, “We know there is another mate because we are still able to ingest the essence of others.” Kai could almost see the hole that seemed to be in the guy’s heart. But a grin replaced the sadness, “My turn. I hear you are
straight
?” The disbelief was evident in his tone.

Sighing, Kai nodded though he was beginning to have serious doubts. He pulled up some blades of grass and focused on them. It wasn’t like he could ignore everything around him. His feelings were not so easy to bury here, especially with Jasper around.

“Sucks for Daddy Jasper.”

“Why?” Why would it impact Jasper at all?

“His family comes from the same place you’re from…” Corey stopped as Jackson turned and stared at him. He sighed dramatically. “Not my story to tell.” Corey stuck his tongue out at Jackson before the bigger guy turned back to watching the game.

Kai’s mind was screaming with questions. Jasper’s family was from Germany.
Why would that matter?
He had heard location played a part in finding one’s intended.
Was Jasper his…
Kai stopped himself from going there. He tried to think of a question to ask Corey to stop his train of thought. “So did you two know each other before?”

Jasper and some of the other guys came galloping by on horseback, play fighting with wooden swords. There seemed to be an object to their game, but Kai had yet to figure it out.

Corey answered, “Yeah, Jackson and I were from the
same
small town about three hundred miles from here.

Jackson frowned at Corey. “We went to the same high school.”

“He didn’t give me the time of day for four years.” Corey rolled his heavily lined eyes.

Shrugging, Jackson looked over at Kai for support. “I was on the football team. He was all punk grunge.” Kai laughed at the look of annoyance Corey gave to Jackson. The guy was adorable as he pouted. Jackson shook his head, “Our paths rarely crossed.”

“Punk? Really? You are still going with that as the reason you ignored me?” Corey looked at Kai trying not to smile before turning his hurt look back onto Jackson. Kai could tell this was not the first time, and it probably wouldn’t be the last discussion on this matter.

Jackson grinned and pulled him into his arms. “I didn’t ignore you. I just couldn’t talk to someone so hot.”

“Hot, right,” Corey waved him off, but the guy’s cheeks actually colored just a little. As Jasper rode by, seeming to be one with the horse, Corey’s attention left the conversation. “That’s hot. He’s all manly.” Turning to Kai, he smirked, “Straight or not, how do you not jump his body every single night?”

Kai swallowed hard as he pulled his eyes away from Jasper. “Um,” he said quite articulately as he made sure his T-shirt was covering his lap.

“Not um, yum,” Jackson said. Wrapping an arm around Corey, he asked with no jealousy, “You like looking at him, baby?”

“He is so our type.” Corey turned in Jackson’s arms.

“Mmmmm, he is, baby,” Jackson agreed as he held him closer.

Kai wanted to stop them from ogling Jasper. He wanted to explain Jasper wasn’t their type. Kai personally thought they should stop looking at Jasper like he was on their sex menu. The man would never have been interested in them. He briefly wondered if the sting he felt could be jealousy. But that didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t like Jasper was his to be covetous about.

Jackson’s voice dropped to a soft whisper, but Kai was close enough that he still heard every heated word. “He’s as dominant as Lafayette, just less experienced. But he would order us to suck on him. As soon as he was all hot and ready, he would take turns with us making us suck him in deep. You would do that little trick you do that turns me inside out. It would make him moan for you.” Unfortunately, Kai’s imagination could easily conjure up that image of dominant Jasper. It made him feel restless and confused. Their lips shouldn’t be anywhere near Jasper even if it was only a fantasy.

The couple fell into each others’ arms with an open-mouthed kiss. Corey groaned in approval as he straddled Jackson without breaking contact with his lips. Kai was embarrassed, but didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, so he just sat there as they sucked on each other’s lips. Their tongues battled, and soft moans of pleasure broke the loud silence. Surely they would stop soon. After all, they were outside, and he was sitting right there.

Breaking the kiss, Jackson groaned as his little emo lover went right for his throat. Corey licked the column of his neck. Kai tried not to watch, but they were in his line of vision. The smaller man started nibbling aggressively.

Kai was glued to the spot. His cock had been aroused from watching Jasper ride past, shirtless and shiny with sweat, clearly besting all the other men on the field. Now his cock throbbed as he tried not to picture the fantasy Jackson had created of Jasper as a strong powerful man completely in charge… of Kai.

“Jasper would stop us before we made him come,” Corey moaned softly as he nuzzled into Jackson’s neck. “He would make us bend over the sofa and fuck us one at a time.”

Jackson seemed to love this idea because he picked up the fantasy tale, and he carried the thought forward. “First, he would sink in nice and deep into your tight little body. He would give you a couple of shallow strokes, making you beg for more.” Running his fingers through the black-dyed hair, Jackson reached up to pull the hair at the back of his neck to tilt face away from Corey’s neck. His lover waited breathlessly, but Jackson held back on the expected kiss, the delay seemed to make Corey even hotter. “But he wouldn’t give you more. He’d stop and slowly drag his cock out of your tightness.”