least, and he’s trying to lowball me.”
Giving a playful growl, he pressed a kiss to John’s cheek and stood. “Fuck him. You’re amazing, and if he can’t see that, then he doesn’t deserve you.” As he made his way back to the kitchenette, he asked, “Did you take your ibuprofen yet?”
He was filling a cup with water, when John was suddenly right behind him, pressing Lukas into the counter and wrapping his arms around his waist. “You know you don’t have to take care of me, right?”
The words were spoken right into Lukas’s skin, and the moist heat caused him to shiver. “I know. I want to though. Is that okay?”
“More than.” John pressed kisses from Lukas’s ear to his shoulder. “Just didn’t want you to feel like you had to.”
Lukas arched and moaned as John bit down where his neck met his shoulder, the plastic cup in his hand slipping from his grasp and landing in the sink.
“Whoops. Better grab that. I’ll go get the pills.” And John was gone.
Lukas stood shivering and panting for a moment, unable to move. Finally, he got his rioting body under control and picked up the cup. “That was very rude.”
John’s deep chuckle told him he disagreed.
Suppressing a grin, he walked over and handed the cup to John. “Here, you jerk.”
Grinning, John tossed the pills in his mouth and accepted the cup. After swallowing—which Lukas did not find erotic at all—he set the glass down on the nightstand next to the lotion. “Thank you.”
Trying to hold on to his pout, he crossed his arms over his chest and nodded at the lotion. “I was going to offer to rub your back for you, but if you’re going to be mean and tease me all night, I don’t know if I want to.”
Which was a lie. No matter what happened, he’d never want John to continue being in pain if there was something Lukas could do about it.
It looked like John was trying to tone down his smile as he reached for Lukas and tugged him closer. “I’m sorry. That would be very nice of you, but I’d understand if you changed your mind.”
Rolling his eyes, he nodded at the bed. “Fine. Take off your shirt and lay down.”
His smile really did seem to dim at Lukas’s words, but John didn’t say anything. He pulled off his shirt and tossed it at his suitcase, then turned and carefully climbed onto the bed, lying on his stomach and crossing his arms under his pillow.
Eyeing the tension in John’s shoulders, Lukas picked up the lotion and climbed onto the bed, straddling John’s upper thighs. Pouring some lotion into his hand, he rubbed them together before gently laying them on John’s lower back.
He’d convince John he was attracted to his body. But first, he’d make it feel really good.
It only took a few minutes for John to relax into the bed and groan at the feeling of the heels of Lukas’s hands pressing into the tightness right above his ass. When he’d accepted the offer of a back rub, his brain hadn’t been thinking ahead to the fact that he’d have to be half-naked in front of the beautiful creature currently straddling him. Sure, Lukas had seen him in his swim trunks earlier that day, but pressed together on the bed? That was much more intimate. Sexual. And he couldn’t quite silence the voice in his head telling him his stomach was a little too soft for someone as young and fit as Lukas.
It wasn’t like he was under any illusion that Lukas thought he was secretly ripped, but with Lukas in his arms—without a shirt on and all his delicious skin on display—he’d been reminded that John wasn’t built like Lukas at all. Plus, would the hair on his chest be weird to someone who barely had any?
But Lukas didn’t say anything, just went to work making John feel good, and it wasn’t long before John was moaning and sighing into the pillows, wishing the massage never had to end. Lukas used just the right amount of pressure, starting softer and then beginning to dig in a little harder as John’s muscles began to give way beneath his fingers.
“Feel okay?” Lukas asked softly, after about ten minutes, as he pressed his hands into either side of John’s spine and moved up toward his shoulders.
“Amazing. Feels a lot better,” he muttered, his words a little husky since he’d also been getting more and more aroused the longer