All of the Voices (14 page)
Carlin hummed and tapped the steering wheel. “Yes, I do believe I can. Two things—or maybe it’s one person and one thing, whatever. Severo came to New York a few weeks ago.
He brought brochures for two highly rated private psychiatric facilities, each of which is only an hour away.”
Matt smacked his forehead hard enough to make his vision blur. “Why the fuck didn’t either of us think of that?”
Carlin shrugged. “That’s what went through my head, too, though I didn’t try to slap my brain out like you just did. I think I was so set on keeping Dad close and in the best place possible, and it didn’t even occur to me that there might be something just as good down here. I mean, I don’t know the area, all I’ve really seen is McKinton, and there’s certainly no help here for people like Dad.”
“Remind me to give Severo a big, sloppy kiss.”
Carlin cut a mean glance at him. “A ‘thank you’ will keep you from having me or Laine finish knocking your brain out of your head.” Carlin looked back out the windshield. “So Severo found two places and both were every bit as good as where Dad was in New York.
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spent a week in Fort Worth seeing to that. I didn’t want to come here and proclaim my intense love for you, then have to turn around and leave again.”
“I’d have followed you in a heartbeat. And the ‘thing’ that helped bring you here?”
“Conner,” Carlin said succinctly. “You got visits from Aunt Mary—where is she, by the way?”
Matt had grown so used to the familiar oatmeal and raisin scent that he hadn’t realised it wasn’t surrounding him now. “I don’t know, maybe she’s giving us some time to talk.”
“Maybe. Anyway, Conner was apparently lingering around and telling Severo what a pathetic guy I was. I hadn’t told Severo when I’d spoken to him, so he didn’t know how bad off I was. Once he did, he made up his mind to find a solution, and he did.”
“And you don’t think the guy deserves a sloppy kiss?” Matt wasn’t going to do it, but it was fun to tease Carlin and watch his cheeks tint a ruddy colour.
“I think he deserves two.”
Matt couldn’t pretend to be jealous, not when he knew Carlin loved him. Hell, the man had moved all the way down from New York for him! “You can give him both, just don’t enjoy it too much or Laine’ll be pounding on
your
head.”
Carlin stuck his lower lip out as if to pout but ruined it by chuckling. “You are no fun at all.”
“I’m plenty of fun. Just wait until we get home and I’ll prove it.” Matt frowned as a thought occurred to him. “Where are you going to be living? And working, for that matter?”
Carlin cleared his throat and darted a quick glance at him. “I haven’t had a chance to look for a place to live yet. I drove straight from Fort Worth to the Sheriff’s Department, hoping to beat the town gossip, and I did. As for a job, I’ll set up in McKinton. I won’t make nearly as much as I did in New York, but Dad inherited a lot of money, and I inherited a hefty chunk as well.”
What Matt got most out of that was Carlin needed a place to live. “You can stay with me. I think we’d suit, but if you’re not ready yet, I understand.”
Carlin steered the car into Matt’s drive and shut the vehicle off after putting it in park.
He gave Matt a luminous smile and pulled the keys from the ignition. “I’ve been missing you for more than five months. It’ll take a lifetime to make up for that, so yes, I’d love to share your home with you.”
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Matt couldn’t get unbuckled and out of the car fast enough. He rounded the hood of the car where Carlin was waiting, somehow having managed to exit the vehicle faster. Matt let out a joyful whoop and scooped Carlin up, tossing him onto his shoulder as Carlin yelped.
“You’re all mine,” Matt crooned, topping the claiming with a swat to Carlin’s ass. “The things I’m going to do to you…”
“I can’t wait,” Carlin rasped as he slipped his hands down the back of Matt’s pants.
Matt moaned as his ass was kneaded while he loped to the front door. He shoved his hand in his pocket and pulled out the keys then opened the front door. And smelt it the same time Carlin did, it seemed.
“Hi, Aunt Mary,” Carlin called out. “Thanks for watching over Matt for me!”
When had the bedroom door moved so far away? Matt thought they were never going to get there, but once they did, he had Carlin on the bed and was stripping him as fast as he could. Carlin made it difficult as he kept trying to get Matt naked, too. After the third time they got their fingers tangled, they both laughed and settled for taking their own clothes off, then Matt was finally,
finally
holding the man he loved.
Matt kissed him softly then with increased passion as the months of going without Carlin came to an end. He wanted to take his time, wanted to hurry, needed to be inside Carlin’s tight ass already. Carlin bit Matt’s nipples and Matt knew he wasn’t going to last long.
“Need you soon,” he croaked as he reached for the petroleum jelly.
“You never got lube?” Carlin asked.
“Didn’t think I’d ever need it since you weren’t here.” Matt pulled the lid off and tossed it somewhere on the floor. He slicked his fingers in the gooey stuff then reached down to tease Carlin’s hole.
“Yessss.” Carlin’s legs dropped open, giving Matt room to play. He took one look at the big, leaking cock tapping against Carlin’s lower belly. That was exactly what he wanted. He fisted the base then sucked down Carlin’s cock at the same time he pushed his index finger into Carlin’s satiny heat. The shout those two things shoved out of Carlin was music to Matt’s ears. He sucked and licked Carlin’s dick until he had three fingers stretching Carlin’s hole, then Matt let Carlin’s length slip from his mouth.
“You ready?” Matt reached for a condom and prayed like hell they hadn’t expired.
They had, and Matt cursed and threw the package on the floor.
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“Wallet,” Carlin rasped, then spoke clearly when Matt arched a brow at him. “I knew you were going to be fucking me as soon as possible, so I bought some. Got a box in my suitcase.”
“I’d like to get tested so we don’t have to use them.” Matt got off the bed and let Carlin think about that while Matt hunted down the condom.
“I want that, too.”
Matt turned back to Carlin and tossed the package. Carlin caught it then ripped it open with his teeth. Matt sidled up to the bed and watched, shuddering a couple of times, as Carlin sheathed his dick.
“You want to fuck me like this?” Carlin rolled onto his stomach then brought his knees up underneath him and thrust his ass in the air. “It’s my favourite. You can fuck me really deep and hard. God,
please
fuck me like this!”
Like Matt could refuse that fluttering hole or those rounded ass cheeks, or the heavy balls hanging low, or—Matt crawled onto the bed and kneeled between Carlin’s calves. He guided his dick to Carlin’s opening with one hand while with the other he held one of Carlin’s hips.
“Do it, all the way in, please, need it…”
Matt pressed his crown against Carlin’s hole then settled his other hand on Carlin’s hip.
“You sure?”
“Matt, please!”
Carlin knows what he wants
, Matt assured himself, then he tightened his grip and plunged his cock balls deep into Carlin’s tight heat. Carlin screamed and thrust back against him, adding to the force of the penetration. Matt would have been concerned but Carlin immediately began fucking himself on Matt’s cock and shouting, “Yes! Fucking yes!” every time his ass slammed against Matt’s groin.
“Let me do the fucking,” Matt growled as Carlin’s inner muscles contracted around Matt’s shaft. He kneed Carlin’s legs further apart then covered the man, pressing his chest to Carlin’s back and resting on his elbows above Carlin’s shoulders. Matt really liked this position, and showed it by pounding into Carlin’s ass with quick short jabs.
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and saying things that didn’t make any sense but Matt didn’t care. He pumped Carlin’s dick and pummelled his ass.
“Do it! Fuck me! Yes! Matt!” Cream squirted onto Matt’s hand as Carlin came, cursing and whimpering each time spunk shot from his shaft.
Matt’s hips stuttered as his cock was massaged by Carlin’s clenching muscles. “Carlin!”
Matt couldn’t say anything else as his climax slammed into him. He ground his groin against Carlin’s ass and panted as he filled the condom.
Once his softened dick slipped from Carlin’s ass, Matt pulled the condom off and tied it shut then tossed it onto his recently shucked clothes. Carlin mumbled something and Matt snuggled the man to him, spooning the slender body with his larger one. Matt dozed contentedly with his lover, only waking when he heard Carlin’s voice.
“What’d you say, sweetheart? I couldn’t hear you.”
Carlin craned his neck around in a position that looked painful to Matt. “I said, I forgot to tell you Severo has his doubts about what’s wrong with Dad. He seems to think Dad can hear spirits, at least some of the time. I just don’t know about that.”
“Severo won’t do anything to hurt your dad.”
“I wouldn’t have put him on the visitor’s list if I’d thought Severo would hurt my dad. I guess I’m just afraid to get my hopes up. I’d rather Dad be hearing and speaking to spirits than be schizophrenic.”
Matt nuzzled Carlin’s soft blond hair and told him it’d all work out. And it would, Matt was certain. They had great friends, a roof over their head, enough money for their needs and possibly more than that, but most importantly, they had each other. Everything else would come with time.
About the Author
A native Texan, Bailey spends her days spinning stories around in her head, which has contributed to more than one incident of tripping over her own feet. Evenings are resounds for pounding away at the keyboard, as are the early morning hours. Sleep?
Doesn’t happen much. Writing is too much fun, and there are too many characters bouncing about, tapping on Bailey’s brain, demanding to be let out.
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