My Fair Captain (36 page)
His forefinger followed the seam to where it flattened against the man’s body. Curran tensed, but Tanis guessed by the look on the young man’s face that tension was in preparation for pleasure rather than distaste. So he kept going, applying pressure to the tiny strip of skin between the guardsman’s sack and anus.
Tanis popped his mouth off the rigid shaft. “Too far?”
“Not far enough. Not nearly far enough.”
Tanis softly chuckled and returned his attentions to the sweet-tasting member. Perhaps one day he would take this pup into his bed. Dawn hit his bedding through a window over his straw pallet which would give him plenty of light to explore the man’s young, healthy body. Just the thought of being able to see what the water yet concealed wrung a groan from Tanis’ chest.
He prodded the opening to the guard’s anus, testing the fit.
“Ah,” the warrior cried out.
“Pain?”
“Pleasure,” Curran gasped. “I do not wish to die so quickly.”
Tanis had needs of his own to consider, like feeling the young man’s body quiver with release. He sucked the stiff cock harder while he plunged his finger into the opening well past the second knuckle. In and out. Up and down. A duet of motion designed to bring the most pleasure to Curran, and thus to himself.
Curran writhed under the combined assault. “Step back,” he panted.
“Now.”
“Not even if you pressed your blade to my throat.”
Tanis clung to the warrior’s body as his muscles turned to stone.
Curran’s cock pulsed in triple time, pumping seed into Tanis’ hungry mouth. The guardsman grunted repeatedly as he bucked and jerked as his seed spilled from his body. Tanis sucked every salty drop of fluid the man could spare until the warrior’s hand pushed him away.
“Enough.”
Not as far as Tanis was concerned, but this time he heeded the request and let the man go. He retreated to the other side of the pool where they’d started, planting his feet on the underwater shelf so he could finish himself off before Curran returned to sanity. He didn’t want the warrior to feel obligated to return the favor.
“Have I behaved so poorly that you must run from me?”
Tanis raised the lids that had closed as he focused on retaining the taste of the guard’s hot cock in his mouth. He found himself under scrutiny by the young warrior, and he forced himself to move his hand away from his shaft. “You need time to recover.”
“Not as long as you still ache.” Curran swam over to where Tanis stood. “Do you still ache for me, hunt master?”
Tanis looked down into the young man’s eyes and saw no pity there.
What he saw instead scared him so badly he had to avert his gaze. “Aye, though it need not be your concern.”
Gently the guardsman reached out to cup Tanis’ balls. That simple touch made Tanis’ gut tighten with rising need.
“It is a matter of honor to me that I return some small measure of the pleasure you have given me this night if it is at all within my power to do so. Will you permit me to try?”
By the Gods, this young pup was offering him everything he wanted.
Why was it so hard for him to accept it?
Gavin’s face swam between them. Noble, selfish, charming Gavin.
Curran was like him in many ways. Was that part of his problem? Was he linking the actions of his former lover to this young guardsman?
Rejecting the act that would put Curran in charge so he didn’t have to submit to another’s will? Had the empty years restored none of his
courage in that respect? If he had something to prove to himself, he had no right to use this warrior to do it.
“If you insist,” Tanis finally said, unsure of his motives for doing so.
“I do.” Curran’s hand glided loosely over Tanis’ eager cock. “What would please you best?”
“An end to this torture.”
“With my hand?” Curran tightened his grip around the fully erect shaft. “Or with my tongue?” he suggested before licking Tanis’ nipple in one long, broad stroke. “Or shall it be with my arse, which we both know is where your true desire lies?”
“I will accept your choice and be glad for it,” Tanis replied through his clenched teeth. This conversation was burning away his limited patience.
If Curran didn’t attend to matters soon, one way or another, he’d find himself flipped over on his back, positioned so that Tanis might sheathe himself deeply between his nether cheeks and teach him not to tease a desperate animal.
“You will get nothing from me unless you tell me what it is you need.”
“Damn you to hell.”
“If I am the very devil as you say, I shall return there soon enough.”
Curran leaned in and nibbled along Tanis’ throat. “Say it. Command me.”
Tanis growled, a mournful note that was picked up and echoed by his avian friend. His hands gripped the guardsman’s buttocks and hauled the muscular body against his own. From there it was a simple matter to slide his thick finger into the tight aperture at the base of the young man’s spine.
“This is what I want, you young fool. This snug bit of flesh to part before my aching cock.”
“Have at it, then.”
Curran switched positions with a sense of balance Tanis had to admire. The guardsman pressed himself against the rough rock and splayed his long legs, giving Tanis complete access to the very spot he’d requested.
The young man looked over his shoulder. “My name is Curran, not Fool, young or otherwise. Get it right when you cry out, will you?”
Tanis couldn’t imagine getting it wrong. His entire world had been reduced to the size of one man, Curran Aurick.
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