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made Bartholomew want to rut up against Lachlan’s hip until he came. Instead he kept kissing, caressing Lachlan’s backside until he licked the little dimple right above Lachlan’s right cheek. Bartholomew stifled a giggle.
“Fingers to stretch,” Lachlan begged hoarsely, and Bartholomew drizzled some of the lube on his first two fingers.
One first, finding that little indentation. He pushed gently, surprised when Lachlan took him in.
Lachlan chuckled, the sound strained. “Not my first time, Tolly. Two, and stretch.”
Bartholomew did as he asked, finding sensuality and power in the sounds Lachlan made as Bartholomew prepared his body for sex. Topping was amazing—to give your lover this kind of pleasure, to know what you liked, to try to give someone you cared about the same thing in return. He scissored his fingers gently, his own groin throbbing as Lachlan groaned into the mattress.
“Good, Tolly,” he whispered. “Now. Just… now!”
Lachlan fumbled a cloth from behind his back, and Bartholomew used it before lubing his own cock and positioning himself. He paused before thrusting in, trying hard to be gentle and firm in the moonlight—thought-magic was a weak thing to this. He might never feel closer to being a god.
He thrust carefully but with confidence, remembering what Lachlan had said about being bold but not cruel. Lachlan moaned again, making encouraging noises into the quilt, and Bartholomew kept going, making a little “Oh!” sound when his head popped in.
Lachlan’s sound was much deeper, much more carnal.
Much more demanding.
Bartholomew followed his sound, canting his hips forward, pushing all the way in until he bottomed out. Lachlan’s moan this time was both gratified and hungry, and Bartholomew could deal with that.
“More?” he asked, begging in his head.
“God, yes.”
More. Slow at first, but more, and more, he found a rhythm, something hard and powerful but not too fast, Lachlan’s cries music to his ears. Oh wow, he was giving and giving to Lachlan, and he’d loved receiving. This was amazing! This was fantastic! This was—oh fuck! It was rapidly coming to an end!
“Lachlan, baby, come!” he begged, because he wasn’t sure he had the self-control to wait.
Lachlan dropped his hand to the front of his body, and he started to vibrate to his own rhythm. Oh wow, he was stroking himself, hard and fast, and Bartholomew was fucking him, and oh damn, this was happening! This was happening! And—
“Yes!” Lachlan screamed into the mattress, and his body clenched so violently Bartholomew had no choice but to climax himself.
Yes! Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
Breathless, Bartholomew collapsed across his back, head swimming, dizzy with sex and orgasm.
Later—possibly moments, but possibly years—Bartholomew assessed their position, his sprawl over Lachlan’s body, Lachlan’s increasingly steady breaths. Bartholomew’s come was running from Lachlan’s backside, and Bartholomew couldn’t find a single inhibition about sex left in his own damned head.
“Did I do it?” he asked, because he needed to hear it. “Did I make you happy?”
“Yeah.” Lachlan pushed up, and with some rustling, they positioned themselves under the covers.
“Did I really make you happy?” Bartholomew asked, nuzzling his chest. He did like Lachlan’s nipples. He would have to get to them again this weekend.
“Every day, Tolly,” Lachlan murmured, stroking his hair back from his eyes. “You make me happy every day. You’re even better than cookies.”
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Warm Heart
By Amy Lane
Search and Rescue: Book One
Survive the adventure. Live to love.
Following a family emergency, snowboarder Tevyn Moore and financier Mallory Armstrong leave Donner Pass in a blizzard… and barely survive the helicopter crash that follows. Stranded with few supplies and no shelter, Tevyn and Mallory—and their injured pilot—are forced to rely on each other.
The mountain leaves no room for evasion, and Tevyn and Mal must confront the feelings that have been brewing between them for the past five years. Mallory has seen Tevyn through injury and victory. Can Tevyn see that Mallory’s love is real?
Mallory’s job is risk assessment. Tevyn’s job is full-on risk. But to stay alive, Mallory needs to take some gambles and Tevyn needs to have faith in someone besides himself. Can the bond they discover on the mountain see them to rescue and beyond?
AMY LANE lives in a crumbling crapmansion with a couple of growing children, a passel of furbabies, and a bemused spouse. She’s been a finalist in the RITAs™ twice, has won honorable mention for an Indiefab, and has a couple of Rainbow Awards to her name. She also has too damned much yarn, a penchant for action-adventure movies, and a need to know that somewhere in all the pain is a story of Wuv, Twu Wuv, which she continues to believe in to this day! She writes fantasy, urban fantasy, and gay romance—and if you accidentally make eye contact, she’ll bore you to tears with why those three genres go together. She’ll also tell you that sacrifices, large and small, are worth the urge to write.
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By Amy Lane
Shortbread and Shadows
DREAMSPUN DESIRES
THE MANNIES
The Virgin Manny
Manny Get Your Guy
Stand by Your Manny
A Fool and His Manny
SEARCH AND RESCUE
Warm Heart
Silent Heart
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Shortbread and Shadows
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Digital published July 2020
v. 1.0
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