was in his mind, Qhuinn was in his mouth...Qhuinn was inside of him, the two of them moving together -
This was wrong.
He froze. Just stopped dead. "Shit."
Blay released his cock, even though the mere process of letting the betrayal go made him grit his molars.
Opening his eyes, he stared into the darkness. The sound of his breath punching in and out of his chest made him curse again. So did his pounding need for an orgasm - which he refused to give in to.
He was not going to take this any further -
From out of nowhere, that image of Qhuinn arched under the falling spray slammed into his brain, taking over everything. Against his higher reasoning, and his loyalty, and his sense of fairness...his body went into instant overload, the orgasm shooting out of his cock before he could stop it, before he could tell it no, that wasn't right...before he could say, Not again. Never again.
Oh, God. The sweet, stabbing sensation repeated over and over until he wondered if it was ever going to end - even though he didn't help things along.
This physical reaction might be outside of his control. His response to it was not.
When he finally stilled, his breath was harsh and the coolness across the bare skin of his chest suggested he'd broken out in a sweat...and as his body recovered from the rush, his awareness returned - and his deflating erection was like a barometer of his mood.
Reaching forward, he patted over the desk until he found his shirt; then he wadded it up and pressed the thing into the juncture of his thighs.
The rest of the mess he was in was not going to be so easy to clean up.
Across town, on the eighteenth floor of the Commodore, Trez sat in a sleek steel-and-leather chair that faced a wall of windows overlooking the Hudson River. The noonday sun was shining down from a crystal clear, chrome-like sky, everything ten times brighter because of the fresh snow that had fallen overnight on the shores.
"I know you're there," he said dryly, taking a sip from his coffee mug.
When there was no reply, he spun his chair around on its swival base. Sure enough, iAm had come in from his bedroom and was sitting on the couch, iPad on his lap, forefinger striping across the screen. He would be reading the New York Times online edition, of course; he did that every morning when they got up.
"Well," Trez bit out. "Go on."
The only response he got was one of iAm's brows lifting. For, like, a split second.
The smug bastard wouldn't even look over. "Must be a fascinating article. What's it about? Recalcitrant brothers?"
Trez passed some time nursing his hot coffee. "iAm. Seriously. This is bullshit."
After a moment, his brother's dark stare lifted. The eyes that met his were, as always, completely uncluttered of emotion and doubt and all the messy stuff that mere mortals struggled with. iAm was preternaturally sensible...rather in the way of a cobra: watchful, intelligent, ready to strike, but unwilling to waste the power until it was needed.
"What," Trez ground out.
"It's redundant to tell you what you already know."
"Humor me." He took another draw off the rim of the mug, and wondered why the hell he was volunteering for this. "Go on."
iAm's lips pursed the way they did when he was considering his response. Then he flopped the red cover of the iPad down, each of the four sections landing like footsteps across the screen. He then put the thing aside, uncrossed his leg, and leaned forward to balance his elbows on his knees. The guy's biceps were so thick, the sleeves of his shirt looked like they were going to split wide.
"Your sex life is out of control." As Trez rolled his eyes, his brother kept on talking. "You are fucking three or four women a night, sometimes more. It's not about feeding, so don't waste either of our time by excusing it in that fashion. You are compromising the professional standards of - "
"I run liquor and prostitutes. Don't you think that's a little highbrow - "
iAm picked up the iPad and waved it back and forth. "Should I go back to reading?"
"I'm just saying - "
"You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk."
Trez ground his teeth. See, this was the issue with his