was being grounded, pulled to Earth, fighting against being crushed by the force of it—and it was everything. It was too soon to let himself really fall, but the potential for so much more was there.
He had a future ahead of him, a plan and a destiny when it came to his career, and up to that moment, he hadn’t thought anything could exist that would make him consider veering off that path. But with the promise of Julian’s body against his, and mouth on his skin just like this more than just a handful of mornings, he was willing to set his entire life on fire.
It should have been terrifying, but he couldn’t bring himself to care.
Letting out a small groan, Julian’s fingers spasmed on his skin, then drifted up until they wrapped around his torso. His hand grazed the space just below his neck, and Archer groaned again. Julian pushed against him, leaving a sucking kiss at his hairline before he pulled back and murmured against the back of his ear, “I want to taste you.”
Archer pushed his face into the pillow and his hips backward against Julian, and he felt the rumble of his laughter as the other man began to kiss down his spine. “God, you’re so…”
“I know you’re speaking, but I can’t understand you very well,” Julian interrupted. “I hate wearing my hearing aids this early, so if you want me to stop, tap me twice.”
Archer had no argument against it, not when Julian’s hand dragged down to his hip, then pushed Archer over so he was lying flat on his belly. His cock was aching, hard against the warm sheets, and he gave a couple of thrusts against the mattress as Julian’s fingers spread him. His faced heated, embarrassed for only a second to be on display like that, but then Julian leaned in and laved his tongue across his hole.
Archer had done a lot with his past lovers—trysts in bathroom stalls didn’t always begin and end with sloppy blow-jobs, but he’d never done this. He’d never had anyone want to put their face there, their mouth there. When Julian’s tongue formed a spear and thrust inside of him, Archer lifted his hips off the bed with a shout. A second later, Julian’s bruising grip shoved him back down, and he squirmed, desperate for friction, but unable to get enough as Julian ate him.
He could feel it, sloppy and wet, erotic and just shy of too much, and he felt like he was going to combust. He’d never, ever been able to come untouched. It hadn’t even been something he considered, but the dull press of the fabric beneath him had him nearly there.
“God, I’m so close, I’m so close fuck, and you can’t…you can’t hear me, and I need…”
And maybe Julian couldn’t hear the words, but he might have heard the desperation in his tone because one hand crept up between the V of his legs and cupped his balls. They rolled against his palm, and Archer thrust helplessly against the sheets as Julian’s tongue worked as deep inside as he could get. It was not enough, and yet it was, because when Julian’s thumb pressed into his perineum with a circular, hard push, that was it.
Archer howled, and he humped against the bed, and he felt his hot release smearing over his dick with the rhythm of his hips. Julian stilled, his tongue resting just inside, then he pulled out with a series of wet kisses, landing the final one against the small of his back. His fingers drew lines up and down Archer’s crack, pressing just a little at where he was still wet, and still a little open, and Archer shuddered with the sensation of it.
“You’re so fucking beautiful,” Julian said. He pulled his hand back and drew jagged lines up and down the expanse of Archer’s ribs. “For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings, that then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
Archer allowed himself not only to hear the words Julian spoke against his flush-warmed skin, but also to feel the rumble of his voice that raced through his limbs. He turned after a moment, then drew Julian close, and laughed when the other man shied away from a kiss.
“I’m not afraid to taste myself.”
Julian’s nose wrinkled. “How about a shower instead?”
Archer didn’t put up a fight as Julian pulled him to his feet, and the pair of them stepped into the small bathroom and Archer