Take What You Want (6 page)

He was pushing the pencil
behind his ear when he saw a male figure jogging up the long gravel
driveway. His body tensed, thinking it might be an intruder to the
estate, but the form of the man was familiar to him. A moment later,
he realized it was Alex running into view. Long tanned legs
stretching for their next stride, chest covered with a sweaty tank
top that clung to hard planes of muscle, and a ball cap and
sunglasses hiding his identity. It was all Alex and Chase was
mesmerized.

The smile on Alex's face
grew wider the closer he came to Chase, until he skidded to a stop
beside the ladder. Then he bent over and grabbed onto his knee caps,
gulping in air to catch his breath.

“
Damn!”
Alex said on an exhale. “I'm getting too old for this.”

“
Are
you even thirty?” Chase asked.

“
I
crawled over that hump last year,” Alex said. “And, I do
mean
crawled
.
We had a hell of a party to mark that black day in history.”

“
Thirty
isn't old,” Chase said. “What the hell are you gonna do
when you
are
old?”

“
I'll
probably be dead long before I'll be considered old,” Alex
said.

Chase started down the steps
of the ladder. “How far did you run?”

“
I
did the whole loop,” Alex panted, “Down by the beach,
around by the farm, and back. How far is that?”

“
About
five miles.”

Alex smiled with pride.
“Not bad for an old man.” He pulled the tank top over
his head and used it to wipe the sweat from his brow, then his eyes
met Chase. “It's Saturday. Why are you working?”

“
It's
not really work,” Chase said. “I saw you leave and
figured I'd get some measurements for the replacement trim boards
while you were gone.”

“
Sure
sounds like work to me,” Alex said. “Come on. Take a
break with me. We'll cool off in the pool,” Alex said, and
started walking along the hedges toward the gate into the pool area.
“Unless of course, me skinny dipping again is going to offend
you.”

Chase
was glad Alex had his back to him when he made the comment, so his
look of shock was missed. His cock jerked behind his zipper; like
some sort of salute to the idea. Chase couldn't believe he was
actually considering the invitation, and then his phone rang. He
pulled it from his pocket and looked at the caller I.D.

“
It's
my fiancée,” he said. He looked up from his phone in
time to see Alex shucking off his sneakers, then pushing his sweaty
jogging shorts down his legs and stepping out of them. Sunglasses
and ball cap followed, each item falling on top of the shorts. Alex
stood there naked, backside to Chase; glorious ass fully exposed,
while he wiped the sweat from his face. Then, Alex turned at the
waist and gave Chase a wave over his shoulder, before diving into the
deep end of the pool with a loud splash.

Chase
spun away and started walking toward the guest house. “Danni,
how are you?”

“
You
sound out of breath, Chase,” she teased. “You abusing
yourself again?”

“
I
was on top of a ladder when you called,” he said. Behind him,
Alex resurfaced in the water and let loose with an exuberant hoot
that echoed around the hedged in area.

“
Who's
that yelling?” Danni asked.

“
Our
new neighbor,” Chase said with a chuckle. He stepped up onto
the side porch on the cottage and sat down in a rocking chair.

“
Have
you met him?” Danni asked. “Is he as bad as you thought
he'd be?”

Chase set his head against
the back of the chair and closed his eyes. “Yes, we've met and
he seems nice. Friendly.”

“
What
does that mean?” she asked.

“
Nothing
more than he's friendly,” Chase said. “That's all.”

“
Is
he someone famous?”

Chase
laughed at that comment. “You won't believe me when I tell you
who he is,” he said. “It's Zander from Ivory Tower.”

“
No
freaking way!” Dannie said with excitement. “Zander
Metcalf is living right next door to us?”

“
The
one and only,” Chase said. “I didn't recognize him at
first. He looked different to me for some reason, but it is
definitely him.”

“
He
is so damn sexy!” Danni said.

Chase
swallowed hard. Alex sexy? He hadn't fucking noticed. He snorted
at his own joke. Then he wondered what Danni would have to say if he
told her Zander – Alex, was at this very moment swimming naked
just on the other side of the hedges.

“
Chase?
Are you still there?”

“
Yeah,
I'm here,” he said. He straightened in his chair and was able
to see over the flat tops of the hedges. He saw Alex pull himself
out of the pool and stand up on the patio stones. Naked. Completely
and gloriously naked. Not one ounce of embarrassment about him as he
stood there; with his cock appearing to thicken in the sun. His
large hands pushed the long hair off his forehead and wiped the water
from his eyes, then his gaze found Chase sitting on the porch. Alex
waved again, offering Chase a lingering look at his full frontal,
then turned to walk toward the cabana to retrieve a towel.

Fuck.
This was going to be one long, HOT, summer.

“
I'm
here, baby,” Chase said. “I miss you like crazy.”

“
How
much?” she asked. “Is your cock hard?”

Chase glanced at his lap.
His cock was hard enough to pound nails and was straining against the
front of his jeans, threatening to rip through the zipper if he
didn't free it soon. No fucking way in hell he'd be admitting to
Danni what had gotten him in such a state of arousal, either.

“
I'm
always hard for you,” he said.

“
Pull
it out,” she suggested.

“
I'm
sitting on our porch in a rocker,” he said. He lifted himself
again and peered over the hedges. Alex was reclined now on a chaise
lounge chair facing Chase. His legs were spread; his feet resting on
the ground on either side of the chair. His head was tipped back on
the chair, sunglasses concealed his eyes again, and his hand was
slowly working on the fully erect cock jutting from his groin. A
neatly trimmed patch of dark pubic hair sat at the base of his cock
in a rectangle shape with a nice tight sac below the shaft.

The guy manscapes, Chase
thought, stunned by how much of Alex he could see from this distance.

“
Outside
will make this even naughtier,” Danni said. “Unzip your
pants and let out the beast. I want to play.”

Chase didn't think this was
a good idea, not with Alex sitting over by the pool, but the ache in
his groin needed attention. Besides, wasn't Alex already doing the
same? The thought of that sent a shiver of lust through Chase. He
tugged at his zipper and freed his cock. He watched it pulsing
against his palm, then straightened in the chair to look across the
lawn at Alex.

Alex's hand was still
pulling off slow, teasing strokes on his cock; his bare chest was
starting to glisten in the bright mid-morning sunshine. Chase
watched Alex and started matching him stroke for stroke.

“
Are
your pants undone yet?” Danni asked.

Undone?
Not only was he undone, but he was halfway to shooting on nothing
more than the visual unfolding before him across the hedges.

“
Pants
are open and cock in hand,” Chase said. His eyes were glued to
Alex's jerking action, wondering if Alex was aware what he was doing
was on full display to him; wondered if Alex could see him, too. The
idea of that added an extra zing to an already erotic situation and
Chase moaned.

“
Baby?
I haven't started talking dirty to you yet,” Danni said.

“
It's
been a while,” he said. “I miss you.”

“
It's
been a couple of days, Chase,” she said. “We've gone a
lot longer than this without having sex.”

Alex's hand was moving
faster now, his hand curled around his ball sac and squeezed. Chase
felt his own balls tightening; lifting closer to his body. He closed
his eyes, wanting to hold off the inevitable climax that was so close
to the surface he could taste it. His skin was sweating from the
thought of it. If Alex beat him to the release, he knew the sight of
watching him shoot would make him follow.

“
Stroke
your big cock, Chase,” Danni whispered.

He was long past that stage,
Chase thought. He saw Alex's hips start to lift up off the chaise
cushion, fucking his fist. The first ribbon shot from the broad tip
of Alex's cock and splattered on his chest. A second and third
string of the thick fluid hit his stomach. Chase couldn't take it
any longer and followed Alex over the edge in a blinding orgasm that
made his legs shake. He pointed his cock toward the floor boards of
the porch and dropped his phone, as he finished spurting cum at his
feet.

His hand was trembling as he
pressed the phone to his ear again. “Sorry about that,”
Chase said. “Quick trigger today.”

“
I
guess,” Danni laughed. “Was it good?”

“
You
have no idea.”

-0-

Chase chatted with Danni for
another half an hour. He sat in the rocking chair with his pants
still undone, occasionally glancing over the hedges at Alex. Chase
watched Alex stand up and dive into the pool again, then start doing
a series of laps, back and forth, slicing through the water like an
Olympic swimmer.

Fluid grace, Chase thought,
with the sun bouncing off Alex's muscled back and the tiny waves
rippling the water.

“
Well,
baby,” Danni said. “I'll be free later on if you'd like
to call me back.”

“
That
sounds good,” Chase said. “I'll go collect my ladder
from where I left it beside the main house before our new neighbor
complains.”

“
Will
Zander still be there when I get home?” Danni asked. “I'd
love to meet him.”

“
He
says he's here long term,” Chase said, “But, I'm not sure
what long term means to him.”

“
Ask
him,” Danni said.

“
I
will,” Chase said, “Next time I talk to him.”

“
Do
you talk to him a lot?”

“
I
wouldn't say a lot,” Chase said. “We see each other
around the property, that's about it.”

Danni drew in a long breath.
Chase sounded different to her and she wasn't sure why. She knew
this separation wasn't something Chase wanted, even though he knew it
was to further her Pilates instruction. He tolerated her repeated
trips to Colorado in hopes it would get them both closer to a
financially more secure future. It sometimes seemed so far off for
them and that troubled Danni. She hated that they both had to work
so hard for their common goal.

One step at a time, she
reminded herself.

She
said good-bye to Chase and rolled out of bed to get ready for her
next class. Again, she wondered why Chase sounded odd to her. She
knew him too well; his moods, body language, all of it. She could
read him better than anyone – including himself; which is why
she suspected there was a deeper meaning behind him watching the gay
porn. She wished the lid on that can of worms hadn't been ripped
open right before she had to leave for two months. That was a
subject she and Chase needed to discuss further, face-to-face, and
possibly explore together. She needed to know how serious it was for
Chase. Was it a passing fancy or something that would haunt him for
life? She had to know all of it – and before they committed to
each other in marriage.

-0-

Chase zipped up his pants
and stepped off the porch. He slid his phone back into his pocket
and walked along the hedges toward the main house. When he passed by
the gate into the pool area, Alex was tying a towel around his waist.
He nodded at Chase and moved toward the gate.