Page 38 of Measure of the Stars

“I need a yes or no,” she said, holding up a length of rope.“We’re tying your hands together.”

Wes looked up.The doms had moved him and Delauney so that Wes was lying on his back at one end of the table, with Delauney on his hands and knees on the other end.Their faces met in the middle, Delauney looking down at Wes, their hands barely touching.

“Yeah,” Wes said.It was remarkable how he could still see light in Delauney’s eyes, even when his face was in shadow.It was as though the stars were determined to follow him everywhere.“Yeah, go for it.”

To his surprise, when the dominant with the rope reached for Wes’ left wrist, she also took Delauney’s.She deftly bound Delauney and Wes’ hands to each other on one side, then the other, effectively locking them in place.The rope had enough give for Wes to wrap his fingers around Delauney’s wrists.With a little effort, he could free Delauney quickly enough on his own.

Delauney’s eyes went wide, and Wes squeezed his hand.“Someone has their...their fingers inside me,” Delauney said, in the kind of posh, polished tone someone would use to comment on the scandalous colors of a gown at a country ball.

“Does it feel nice?”Wes asked, keeping his voice low.Someone parted his thighs, but he kept his gaze on Delauney, watching him bite his inner cheek and suppress a moan.“How many people will have stretched you out by the end of this, do you think?And you haven’t even been formally introduced.”

“I sincerely doubt I need to be,” Delauney said.There was a smack of a hand striking flesh, and Delauney let out a low cry, squeezing Wes’ hands tight.

“Oh, he liked that,” someone said.Wes bit his lip as a hand trailed down his thigh to cup his ass.He felt wetness as someone spat on his hole, then the slightest pressure of a finger along his rim.

“He has a nice ass for it,” someone else said.They spanked Delauney again, making him jerk forward slightly.Wes craned his neck to see Delauney’s untouched cock bobbing with every strike as the indistinct figures behind Delauney took turns trying to make him squeak.While Delauney let out sharp gasps and squirmed overhead, Wes groaned as the person teasing his hole finally pushed a finger inside.It was hardly enough to stretch him properly, but they took their time with it, slowly easing in and out while Delauney’s face turned as red as his ass probably was.

“Do you think you can take a flogger?”Delauney’s head jerked up as someone grabbed him by the hair.Wes could just see Delauney try to nod desperately before they let go.

Whoever was teasing Wes finally tired of it, because he felt the slickness of oil as they pressed a hard, slender cock against him.He took it easily, barely needing to adjust as the dom hilted himself inside him, and Wes caught Delauney watching him with undisguised want.

“If he’s going to keep his mouth open,” someone muttered, “he might as well use it.”A shadow slid over them both as the first dom climbed onto the table, his braids falling over his shoulders.He knelt over Wes’ chest, smiling rakishly down at him for one moment before turning to Delauney.He snapped his fingers and nodded to his cock, which was thick and flushed.“Here, now, you know what to do.”

Delauney met Wes’ gaze briefly before he leaned down to take the man’s cock in his mouth.From Wes’ place below them, he had a perfect view of Delauney’s lips parting around it, the way his throat moved as he sank down its length, and the soft, almost imperceptible sounds he made as he tried not to choke.Wes gripped his hands, rocking back as the man fucking him set a hard, fast pace.

This time, when the doms returned with the flogger, Delauney did make a sound at the first strike.He groaned around the cock in his mouth, then squealed, voice muffled as the braided dom started fucking his mouth in earnest.As Delauney squeaked and whimpered above him, Wes’ breath came short as the man fucking him grabbed him by the thighs, slamming him hard into his cock.Delauney choked at last, throat fluttering, saliva trailing down his chin.

The man taking Wes pulled out suddenly, leaving him empty and aching, and Wes tried to close his legs to rub his thighs helplessly against his cock.Someone clicked their tongue and parted his legs again, and he felt come spill onto his lower belly.

“You’re next,” someone said, and Wes groaned as another, rougher pair of hands grabbed his legs.They pushed his legs up until he was afraid he would bump into the man fucking Delauney’s mouth by mistake, and Wes felt a much larger cock stretch him further still.

When the braided man came, he pulled out before he was done, letting his spend fall over Delauney’s face and onto Wes.It spattered over Wes’ cheek and nose, and Delauney looked down at him in concern, still gasping for breath.

“Clean him up, then,” the dom said, carefully getting off the table.Delauney bent down slowly, nervously, and licked Wes’ cheek.Wes tipped his head back, silently begging for a kiss.It was messy and awkward with their faces in the wrong position, but Wes didn’t care, and he certainly doubted Delauney did, either.They tried their level best regardless, gasping and panting as the people behind Delauney flogged his thighs and the man fucking Wes pulled out to give another dom a try.

Wes quickly lost track of how many people stretched him full.He was too distracted by Delauney, who was always leaning down to kiss him.Their hands stayed bound until someone got the clever idea to put Delauney in the stocks with his cock in Wes’ throat, jerking every time a dom fucked into Delauney from behind.Delauney came then, with Wes kneeling below him and a stranger’s cock making him rattle the stocks.Wes swallowed him down, throat constricting around his cock as he spent himself limp and boneless.One of the doms released him, letting him fall into Wes’ arms.

“Your man should be the last one to fuck you,” someone said, and Delauney nodded, reaching for Wes with both hands.

“Spirits,” Delauney whispered, parting his legs as Wes leaned over him on the barroom floor.“You certainly know how to wring a fellow out.You do this every time you come here?”

“I try,” Wes said.He kissed Delauney softly.Delauney was fucked loose, his hole slick with oil and come, and Wes rocked into him with gentle, slow strokes.The doms around them weren’t touching them, now.They were simply watching, some stroking themselves off, others writhing together in the shadows, some sprawled on the benches with a fierce light in their eyes.

“I think I like this part the best,” Delauney whispered, wrapping his arms around Wes’ shoulders.Wes felt something tight unravel in his chest, and he kissed Delauney again, unable to answer.Delauney rocked to meet his thrusts, pressing their faces together cheek-to-cheek.

“Come inside me, Wes,” he said.“Please.”

Wes’ hips stuttered as he came, still holding Delauney tenderly, heart pounding hard.He felt someone come over his back as they stood over them, and another on his ass, but Wes could still only think of Delauney below him, of his breath and his heat, the sparkle in his eyes.He kissed him again, still gentle, and realized with a start that he could only have this and be content.Only Delauney, with his cleverness and his softness, his fussy clothes and the impulse that spurred him to rescue convicted sailors.

“Here,” someone said, and Wes drew back as the braided dominant lay a hand on his forehead.He had a pair of cloths over an arm.“Do you two need help coming down?”

“No,” Delauney said, still staring up at Wes.“Just Wesley.”

The dom smiled.“All right, then.”He handed the cloths to Wes.Wes looked around to find that most of the crowd had dispersed, either slipping out the door or milling around the flogging post, where a woman with an enormous back tattoo was standing.“It’s nice to see submissives looking out for each other.But if you need a dominant touch, I’m heading outside for a smoke.”

Wes nodded.He usually did rely on nearby dominants to come out of subspace, but he felt oddly private in that moment.He just wanted to be with Delauney for a while, tending to him, helping him slip out of the haze that had likely overtaken them both.

“You were lovely,” Delauney said, as Wes helped him up.