a second time. I tried to wick away the dampness on my jeans and the water that dripped from my soaked body. When he returned, he had changed into a white T-shirt and gray sweat pants. They molded over his muscular frame, the shirt revealing his biceps, the pants cuffed at his ankles, emphasizing his bare feet and the outline of his cock. “Here.”
My lingering gaze snapped up to his face and I accepted the folded garments, our hands brushing in the exchange. Again, I felt that damn pull toward him. I knew coming to his place would put us on a precipice, and he had made that clear during one of our late-night conversations. But being here now, facing that fork in the road, one that would take us in an entirely new direction, could no longer be ignored. It was now or never, and needing him to believe I was ready for this was what prompted me to put the clothes he gave me on the arm of a chair before dragging off my wet T-shirt.
Ricky’s ice-blue eyes blazed as they raked over my naked torso, and fuck if I didn’t feel my entire body quivering in anticipation. He then met my gaze again, and the struggle within him was clear as day. He wasn’t going to make this easy on me, not that I expected him to.
It was my job to open the door. It was up to me to walk through it.
This was my metamorphosis.
And I did so by stepping close enough to press my body against his, and then my lips. Although his mouth responded to mine, his arms hung limply at his sides.
Pulling away, I asked, “Do you need a formal invitation?”
“Is that what this is?” He nipped at my bottom lip and tugged before asking, “If so… there’s no turning back.”
“I know.”
“Say you want this. I need to hear it from your mouth, Cooper.”
Being the same height, it was easy to level him with my gaze. “I want this.”
Instantly, his hands gripped on to my ass before he tugged me closer. With a measured roll of his hips, he ground his cock against mine. The thin fabric covering him may as well have been nonexistent, and the wet heavy denim covering me intensified the friction. I felt every bit of him, hard and ready, the sensation causing my eyelids to slowly slide closed on their own accord.
“Open them,” he commanded, as he continued to torture me with his hard-on. Nose to nose, we swallowed each other’s panting breaths until I could no longer take the pressure building within me.
“Stop teasing me,” I barked, tormented with each stroke of his cock over mine. Nothing we’d done until now compared to this, and this wasn’t even anything significant. I was slowly losing control as all reservations I held on to were about to snap.
“As you wish. It’s time for me to sexually school the professor.” He pushed me hard enough to fall on the leather couch behind me and then dropped to his knees. While staring into my eyes, he wedged between my legs to swipe his tongue over my flat nipple. I had barely reacted to that when he sucked on it with such force I whimpered from the pressure. His lips trailed to my other nipple while he palmed my erection, still held prisoner in my damp jeans.
That hot mouth of his latched on to suck on a spot just below my pec, and that scruff of his scraped across my sensitive flesh, sending an unexpected jolt through me, ending in my cock. The animalistic sounds grew louder, and when he pulled away, I knew I’d been branded by the red angry bruise he’d left behind.
“Proud of yourself?”
“Almost.” While staring into my eyes, he unbuttoned and then unzipped my jeans. I wouldn’t be surprised if he could hear my heart, the way it pounded behind my chest wall. Slowly, he struggled to peel the uncooperative denim down my legs, and if the air between us hadn’t been so charged, I may have laughed. Finally, he was able to get them around my ankles. Leaving them there, he tucked his fingers into the sides of my briefs and paused. “Last chance.”
“If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were the one unsure.”
“Oh, I’m sure,” he countered, yanking them off my throbbing flesh, leaving me in a compromising situation—pants and briefs around my ankles as my dick saluted him.
Instantly his eyes focused on my tattoo