Page 69 of Forever King

I trail my fingertips along the space between his hip bones and feel his skin flutter at my touch. I love that. It never fails to make me feel like I have the power to affect him like he affects me.

He squirms a little and kisses me, teasing my tongue with his. I sense he’s not wanting to spend much time with foreplay now, which is fine with me, so I open my legs and tilt my hips so heslides inside me. My eyelids flutter closed as he fills me up. It’s the most sublime sensation I’ve ever felt, and he knows it.

Eager to come again, I lift my hips to meet his thrusts, and we quickly fall into a sensual rhythm. This is how I love us best—open and wanting to make the other person happy. Kellen can be many things, and some of them infuriate me, but when he’s not trying to be anyone but the man who wants me to be happy, I can’t think of a thing other than how much I adore him.

With each time he slides his cock into me, my body comes alive and I inch closer to that moment I want so badly. He grunts in my ear, sounding purely animalistic, and I swear it makes me even more excited. Never one for base emotions, something about how he sounds when we fuck drives me wild.

He comes first, filling me up until there’s nothing left inside him, but he keeps going, wanting me to feel as incredible as he does. A few thrusts more and I feel myself unravel inside, coming hard on his cock. It’s sublime and exhilarating unlike I’ve ever felt with any other man.

“Damn, that was unbelievable,” he groans before rolling off me.

When I can finally move a minute later, I roll over to kiss him. “You never disappoint, honey.”

He turns his head and smiles at me. “I aim to please.”

I rest my head on his chest and let out a heavy sigh. “You always do.”

This right here between us is what I worry we’d lose if we got married and had kids. People change when those happen. I don’t want that for Kellen and me.

25

Kellen

I rununder the dark green awning on the front of Baxter’s where I’m meeting Marius and Ronan for dinner. We scheduled this weeks ago, and since it’ll be just the three of us, I’ve been looking forward to it.

Not that I don’t love Lily or either of my brothers’ wives, but it’s nice to have a night out alone with them. We don’t have enough brotherly time together these days.

Irritated I decided not to take my umbrella, even after my assistant warned me it was forecasted to rain tonight, I shake my arms to at least shed some of the wetness from running in this weather, even if it was only for a few yards. Hopefully, the air conditioning isn’t too much inside, or I’ll be frozen before my meal comes.

I step inside and turn to say something to the host about meeting people when I see Ronan wave to me from a table on the right side of the restaurant. Hurrying over to where he and Marius are seated, I sit down, noticing neither of them are soaked.

“This place is only three blocks from King Industries headquarters,” Marius says with a laugh. “Did you swim here?”

That gets him a well-deserved glare. “I took a cab and got out at the corner since the traffic was ridiculous and I would have been late if I waited for him to get through the light. This is the result of less than half a block in this weather.”

The two of them lean over and lift up their umbrellas. “They have this new contraption, Kellen. It’s all the rage. You may have heard about it.”

Why I’ve missed these times together I have no idea. They never fail to bust my balls from the minute I enter the room.

“Yeah, my assistant mentioned something about it. I was hoping I could dodge the raindrops. I guess I was wrong.”

Both Ronan and Marius laugh at me, but I’m more focused on the drink menu. I haven’t had a good bourbon in a while. I think I’ll get that.

“So what’s new with you?” Ronan asks just before the waiter arrives to take my drink order.

Happy I’ll be enjoying some bourbon in a minute or so, I sit back in my seat to decide what I want to share with them. These brothers have little interest in what we do at work, so that leaves only my personal life. Since I don’t really like to share much of that, I’m left with very little to talk about.

“You know, same old same old,” I say as nonchalantly as possible. The last thing I need is them thinking there’s something wrong in my life.

Quickly, I flip the question back on them. “What about you two? I have to say you look great. Whatever you guys are up to, it’s working.”

They turn to look at one another and seem to assess my opinion of how they look. Nodding, Marius says, “Just clean living. You know how it is.”

When he’s like that, I can’t help but laugh. “Clean living? You’re the person who used to spend weeks on end never seeing the sun when we were teenagers, and then you’d go off on some trip and we wouldn’t hear from you for upwards of a month. Now you’re a clean living guy?”

He gives me a sheepish look and shrugs. “Okay, not really, but I think it’s mostly Eden and Lily who keep me feeling good.” Marius turns to look at Ronan and adds, “And working with this guy at the foundation. I can’t deny that makes me feel good, at least, so maybe that’s coming out in some way in how I look?”

I turn to ask Ronan the same question, but before I can, he says, “All I do is work for the foundation and spend time with Kate, so if I look good, I think that’s what gets the credit.”