Sunday, July 12, 2015

LOVE SHOULD BE ENOUGH



I've mentioned before that I don't agree with the emotional need of some people to be married in a Church. What I feel for the person I love only needs the approval of my heart because whatever that is beyond human understanding, that Supreme Being all wish to please one way or another, doesn't care who I love as long as that love is true in my heart.

 Those who say that God created a man and a woman forget that "God" created human beings not just sexual beings. Sexuality was created for reproduction; Love was created for Companionship— two different sides of the same cosmic coin. If I ever decide to marry, it will be with the blessing of my HEART and that of the HEART of the man I'd marry, I don't need any other blessing. I'd enjoy the support of others but it is not what would complete me or make the situation greater than it would already be in my HEART.

 As I said I don't agree but I have enough common sense to respect other's needs. That doesn't mean I need to follow their lead precisely because religion is a thing you don’t need shoved down your throat every day, every second. There's a moment for that in the intimacy of your (insert whatever word works for you... house heart, bedroom, etc), and not to use it in detriment of others.


Now, since this is a blog about hotness and not drama, keep reading and you'll get that something hot. 

Cheers.

TONIGHT (a BRIDEGROOM FROM HEAVEN snippet)

Tonight, one way or another Alejandro would have Armando.  

Lightning illuminated the room. A moment later, thunder exploded outside their lodgings.

His surroundings fluttered as obscure as his contemplation.

Yes, this is a night for flesh and lust.

Armando entered the cabin while he sat on one of his trunks, brooding.

“Are you all right? You seem tired. Do you want a goblet of wine?” Armando sounded intrigued more than concerned.

“Sure, why not.”  Alejandro watched as Armando found goblets and fetched the wine, kicking a pillow to sit before him.

Armando wore a tricorn hat, a long pheasant feather as adornment. Apparently, he forgot to take it off as he entered their cabin.  Alejandro removed the hat slowly, enjoying the beautiful chestnut hair, he tousled it a little using his palm. Armando smiled, offering him a goblet.

“Thank you.” Alejandro received the drink without smiling.

“You’re most welcome."

Ah, how much I treasure his voice.

Rain poured —a sudden, constant drum.

“Do you hear that?” Armando’s tone was one of sudden happiness. “I love rain!” He stood up and hurried to slip off his doublet and waistcoat, then kicked off his shoes, almost rending the stockings in his desperation to get rid of them. 

“What are you doing, Armando?”

“Come on, get undress. Let us shower in the rain!”  Armando discarded his clothes like a mad man.

What a childish thing to do!

Armando took Alejandro by the wrist, pulling him up. “Come, mi cielo. Do this little, silly thing for me.” 

Alejandro could do nothing, except surrender whenever Armando uttered those words.  Armando helped him to get his clothes off, and they ran like boisterous children to the upper deck.

Mauricio had ordered to put the sails down. A sailor fiddled while the others sang a beautiful, happy song, working the ropes on the masts.  Armando began to sing along, jumping in the puddles —a raucous child.

Love surrounded Alejandro as he saw his man in such a merry mood. He liked the rain too, but for quite different reasons. Rain always reminded him of tears, a moment to stare into nothing and relax, definitely not to make the puddles splash.

No wind, just water —falling strong— accompanied by lightning and thunder. The rain, deliciously cold, made the garments glue to his skin.

The men singing, Armando skipping and hopping, the water running down his body, all together activated something long forgotten inside him. The chorus of the song was easy to grasp; he went to Armando and, holding his hands, started to jump in circles with him, singing the old song.            

Alejandro did not care if the sailors saw them as crazy hidalgos acting like children. There was something innocent and pure in the atmosphere. The elements were conjuring a truly primitive spell. He felt loved. Above all, he recognized happiness again; an emotion he had lost early in his life. 
Mauricio grinned at them from the forecastle as he supervised his sailors.

Alejandro thanked Fortuna, for they were on this ship, commanded by such a captain. In a way, the dark man had been a protector of their love, and he wanted to recompense Mauricio. He knew exactly what would be the most appreciated gift.

He would address that later.

The sailors had finished and they stopped too, panting, full of contentment.

“What a joyful moment!” Armando had an unreadable look in his eyes. “Let us go down to change, before we freeze.”

-o-

They knelt on the floor of their cabin, facing each other. Armando thought his little peacock was the most alluring thing in the world while he removed curly wet locks from the handsome face. “I love you. Like I never thought I’ll be capable of love.” His voice came out hoarse, full of passion. The moment he’d been waiting to give his body away had arrived.

Because this man already owns my soul.

“Allow me to do this for you.”  Armando started to unlace Alejandro’s wet shirt. Stroking the soaked shoulders, arms, and hands, Armando slowly pulled up the shirt. As he pulled up, he caressed the young flesh, the ripped muscles. Shortly, he stopped by the armpits, rubbing them, applying his thumbs in circular motions.

Alejandro moaned, his body dreamily trembling.

Armando finished the removal squeezing the biceps and forearms little by little. Then he put the shirt aside and traced Alejandro’s masculine features, his fingertips on fire. He outlineated the collarbones, and Alejandro peered at him with the most adoring eyes. Innocence and lust twined in those hazel gems.

Armando ducked for a nipple, sucking and giving soft bites. His wet hair dripped over the muscular chest. He tasted rain as he trailed toward the other nipple. 

“Please take your shirt off.” Alejandro uttered almost like a supplicant’s whisper; feathery strokes teased Armando’s nape. 

“Go ahead. Do it for me.” Armando answered in a murmur and attacked the hardened nub again.

Alejandro pushed him, using a light touch and settling him on his back while removing the shirt. The striking mozo contemplated his massive chest, devoted, coasting over his pectorals with open hands in adoration. Alejandro petted him as one would a long-lost mascot resurfacing from the past. 

Armando's cock jerked when Alejandro started to rub his beautiful face on the soft chest hair. His emerging stubble was the most erotic thing Armando had ever experienced.

“I want you.  Please don’t stop me tonight.” The young voice floated grave, need permeating it. He leaned over Armando on all fours, his long midnight hair a curtain separating their faces from the world.  His gaze was intent, almost as in prayer.

“I won’t stop you. Tonight, I’m going to be yours completely.” Armando whispered.

Thunder rumbled outside.

Alejandro kissed his lips, his chin, his neck, and kept trailing all the way down with fluttering kisses. The wet hair tickled Armando’s sides, but instead of made him giggle, this fueled his desire. His little peacock fumbled to unbutton the soaked breeches, then small clothes. All unfastened, Alejandro yanked everything down to Armando’s knees with one desperate motion. The engorged cock landed heavy on his navel.

Alejandro gasped. 

In response to the greedy glint inside those hazel eyes, Armando’s cock twitched happily. His lover squeezed it with one hand and completed the garments’ removal, tossing them away.  Alejandro neared his face to the aching member; first, he stared, a questioning look marring his features, then studied the girth, eyes avid. He dragged his nose along the shaft inhaling, his pupils growing darker and darker as he maintained eye contact with Armando.

Divine lashes fanned out as Alejandro closed his eyes and engulfed the member, drowning it in delicious warm, working the crown for a moment and perfectly swallowing it all afterward —the suction glorious. One hand held the shaft; the other teased Armando’s hole using a wicked digit.

His body aflame, Armando wrestled to hold back. He did not want this to end quickly. His need was to pleasure Alejandro too.  He lifted his torso, resting on his elbows. “Amor, I want your cock.” 

A puzzled expression assaulted Alejandro as he opened his eyes, staring at Armando, “In your mouth?” He tried to change his position to straddle Armando’s face in a way that he could keep sucking. Apparently, Alejandro forgot he still wore his breeches.

Armando stopped him. “No. Where your finger was.” 

The look on the chiseled face was priceless. “But I have never...”  Alejandro blushed profusely. “I’ve never entered a man before, and we have no lubricant.” 

“There is a bottle in that black chest.” Armando pointed.  “Take your breeches off and fetch it. I want to see the rest of your lovely body.” 

Lightning. 

Armando noticed that Alejandro’s blush had deepened if possible. “Get the oil. I will light some candles. I was hoping to do this during the day, when everybody was on the decks.”

Thunder.

“But the weather is helping us.” Armando laughed, bestirring himself to fetch the candles.

Alejandro wore an astonished expression admiring Armando’s body, then he stood up, taking his breeches and small clothes off in clumsy haste.

More lightning.

Armando peeked at his lover.  The golden skin was perfect. His hardened manhood jutted from a nest of black curls. Armando changed directions and went to Alejandro. “Nothing is little about your little demon, why the name?”

More thunder.

Captivated, Armando grabbed the engorged, burning pole, pressing it against his in a strong grip with one hand. The other hand clawed one of his lover’s taut globes. “Actually, I think we’re almost the same size... indeed you’re kind of bigger.” He chuckled, nibbling one ear. “I’m sure you are going to rip me apart.”

“Why are you mocking me?” Alejandro lamely tried to push him away. “What makes you think I want to penetrate you? That is not my role.”  His deep voice had a mix of anger and agitation — confused indeed.

Tensing his grip, Armando grinned. “Because I want to be yours, as much as you are mine. Therefore, I want you inside me to receive your seed, as much as I want to be inside you.”  He kissed Alejandro lightly on the lips. “That will be our gift to each other, a first time for both, mi cielo.”  He had noted the effect the last two words produced in Alejandro every time. Both cocks were oozing relentlessly. He juggled them, a deliciously overwhelming friction. “Get the oil.” He tapped the hard cheek and released Alejandro’s little demon.

Armando lighted a couple of candles, and because they were almost dried, he went directly to their makeshift bed.  There was enough light in their space for him to appreciate everything. He wanted to enjoy it. Be lost in the dazzling sight of the younger man. He settled on his back with his hands clasped behind his head, his cock hard as a rock, leaking.

At his feet, Alejandro stood; the young body was a masterpiece, somewhat smaller than Mauricio’s, although utmost desirable.

“How?” Alejandro dangled the oil bottle a little between his fingers.

It was the concoction for virgins. In principle, Armando was still a virgin. No cock had been inside him.

“Mauricio.” Armando answered frankly, trying hard not to grin too much.

Alejandro pressed his lips inward. 

He loved when his little peacock did that.

“Did he...” A hint of pain floated in Alejandro’s voice.

“No, Amor. Didn’t I say that it would be a first for both of us?” Armando sighed.
Alejandro arched an eyebrow.

In a flash, Armando jumped from the bed and knelt in front of Alejandro, face-to-face with the succulent manhood. There is nothing little about this. He thought, heady. His nose buried in the soft curls, Armando inhaled the licorice aroma. He felt Alejandro trembling again. He licked a side of the shaft, tracing a wet line up to the purple crown, and gulped it.

Alejandro groaned and grabbed Armando’s head using both hands; the bottle of oil poked his skull softly. Armando sucked for a couple of minutes, fondling the sac and savoring the moisture escaping from the slit. He stood up.

“Try this?” Armando shared the sugary fluid with Alejandro. “Why do you taste so sweet? He rubbed his cock against Alejandro’s.

The young man stammered. “I-I have no idea.”

Armando lay back on the bed again.“Well, let us have that sweet thing inside me.”




Wednesday, September 10, 2014

LOVE'S LANDSCAPES THRICE

Every summer since 2010,  the Goodreads Group M/M Romance host an event denominated Don't Read in the Closet where members of the group write stories based on requests from members of the group ( I know it sounds repetitive but that way you don't get confused). It doesn't matter if you are a published author or just a member who wishes to dip your toes in the sexy waters of man on man romance. All are welcome and appreciated; it's for the fun after all.

These events celebrate all things M/M in all genres from Contemporary to Fantasy and SciFi, not forgetting all kinks from Vanilla to BDSM, and also including stories that are just sweet with no sex whatsoever (yeah, romance doesn't equate to sex, so there you have it). This year's edition is entitled Love's Landscapes.

Yours truly contributed with 3 stories, and this post is not just to let you know what they are about but to give you easy access to them through some very handy links.



WAND-LOSING AND OTHER THINGS YOU SHOULD'T BE DOING. 
(SciFi -o- Steampunk-ish)
A seriously long title but it summarizes the story in eight words. 
Here is the blurb.


The seven city-states of Aletta are facing their first encounter with an off-planet force. It’s up to Max Maitheas, governor of the city-state of Anatolia (closest city to the alien landing) to embark on a diplomat journey to find out the intentions of the interlopers. 

Captain Rezzu Ki Muselet leads the first Colviri-Human mission since Nova Gaia, a human planet, became part of the Colviri system. A recognizance mission to a remote planet where they hope to discover signs of life.

What Rezzu wasn’t prepared to discover was a thriving civilization and to become mesmerized by the eyes of the head diplomat in charge of receiving them. Green and wonderful like the sky of his home planet.

Both Max and Rezzu have secrets, and in their ability to surpass their deceptions, they might also find love.


You can dowload it here:
http://www.mmromancegroup.com/wand-losing-other-things-you-shouldnt-be-doing-by-gabbo-de-la-parra/

And leave a review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22654600-wand-losing-other-things-you-shouldn-t-be-doing

Rezzu Ki Muselet is the son of the characters of HOW I LOST IT ON PLANET X from 2012 Don't Read in the Closet event Love is Always Write 

You can read about his parents here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/964061-gabbo-de-la-parra---how-i-lost-it-on-planet-x-7-21

And leave a review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704843-how-i-lost-it-on-planet-x


CENOTAPH
(Time Travel -o- Near Future -o- Enemies to Lovers)

The member who requested this story didn't want a happy ending, so you have read the story to understand why and well, if I need to write more about these two later...

Here is the blurb:


In 2089, a man returns to his old team, annoying the hell out of his former partner. Time-traveling is not an easy business, especially if you cannot trust the man beside you. Now they have to work together again, awakening feelings that should have died with their separation but were just resting in a very uncomfortable coma. 

The fight against temptation, missions gone wrong, faceless enemies, and irritating teammates all conspire to make their lives a perfect postcard from Hades.

With their future at stake (talk about time-traveling mayhem), they only have one option. And that option is a cenotaph.


You can download the book here:
http://www.mmromancegroup.com/cenotaph-by-gabbo-de-la-parra/

You can leave a review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23051269-cenotaph


MERIDIAN
(Alternate Universe -o- Road Trip)

In this one, the requester didn't want too much sex, so there is just one sex scene at the very end, but I hope it's hot enough for all of you fans of smut. *wink*

Here is the blurb:


Dissenting with his destiny as a Vampire Courtesan, Kutra “K” Lapin resolves to flee Los Angeles in 2125. His ticket to Meridian, the only human controlled city in an otherwise suprabeing-ruled US, is a transporter known as Tiger, who —by the way— has decided to keep calling K “Bunny.”

Three thousand miles of free-for-all superhighway separates Los Angeles from Meridian. In this journey, the courtesan and the transporter will face clingy former clients; bar brawls; Werewolf, Fae and Warlock outlaws; invisible, firebombing hovercrafts; discover unknown powers, and survive spells and enchantments, all to reach K’s freedom.

And perhaps, in the meantime, find a love that is beyond appearances.


You can download it here:
http://www.mmromancegroup.com/meridian-by-gabbo-de-la-parra/

You can leave a review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23156255-meridian


There you have it. Three completely different stories celebrating manly love and those who love to read about it. I created all three covers, hope you like them. Cheers.

CROCHETING ('cause winter is coming)


So, I'm crocheting like a madman ('cause winter is coming), and I realize in the quite solitude of those crocheting moments that life and all good things are like crochet. If you do it right, it might become something beautiful, perhaps purposeful. If you don't do it right, it might end up all wonky and confusing.


Maybe you're following a pattern somebody else created (let's be honest, there's nothing new under the sun), but it's still yours because your actions are the ones entwining each previous deed with the next one.

Now, why am I thinking this while I crochet, because even when you're doing it right and beautifully, a single pull could unravel it and send the whole thing to hell and leave you with a tangled mess. 

Perhaps that's the meaning of life; to prepare us, not for the "well done," or "how cute," but for that unexpected unraveling, to be able to pick up that mess and make it something wonderful, again and again.

By the way, the picture doesn't have anything to do with my point, but it's very nice to look at. Cheers.


Saturday, April 19, 2014

I DON’T WANT A WEDDING * I WANT RIGHTS.

Since the beginning of time, homosexuals have been trendsetters and trailblazers. One out of five great names in history belongs to someone who was inclined toward their own sex. Then why do we insist on imitate a ceremony that is inherent to people who despise us?

We need to find a different way to express our jubilation for being able to tie the knot and have legal rights. The imitation of something heterosexuals consider their God given gift is what repulses them toward the idea of homosexuals having equal legal rights.

Speaking with someone that is very dear to me, I realized that the problem is not the legal issue, but the concept of marriage. In everyday people’s mind the ceremony and the law go hand in hand; thus, the word ‘marriage’ brings this whole vision of a clergy person invoking supernatural deities to seal a pact between a man and a woman. A pact, many happily use to wipe their behinds by marrying and divorcing and marrying and divorcing ad nauseam. But that's okay: it's a man and a woman doing it...

Handfasting ceremonies exist since the beginning of time, and in more than one culture they were (and are) independent of gender. The concept of marriage come from a time when women were property moving from fathers to husbands in a binding contract which sole purpose was to keep assets within range, and rarely based on love. Troubadours and poets inculcated this romantic notion of a love marriage in the collective mind of the people as a gateway from the daily frustrations of the rough life of the Middle Ages. Some would say that this concept existed in Ancient times and put Rome and Greece as examples, but I will simply remind these hecklers that the Roman and Greek gods had both male and female lovers thus their believers would take their cue from them.

Some would say the Bible narrates how God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Adam (or Steve, Evan, or whatever male name you think rhymes better), but in that moment, if we chose to take it literally, the idea was procreation not commitment. You need different parts to create life; that is Biology 101. However, I think that is the weakest reason (or the oldest and more cliché if you may) because nowadays (an actually always) people procreate without marrying one another, and sterile people get marry knowing that they will not bear children.

And t(h)rust me, it’s not that I don’t believe in a Supreme Being beyond us that created all. I do believe. My problem is with US humans thinking that WE have the absolute truth. Because this same people who believe in the God of the Bible and swear that Creation is perfect and all humans are created in his (?) own image want to say that some humans are less perfect than others because of their sexuality.

If you want to use something as a manual, you don’t get to use only the parts that are more convenient to your agenda. It should be all or nothing. This same book from where they base all their rightful anger toward a different sexuality is full of things that today are considered against the law: killing, stealing, raping, slave-owning, and another myriad more. And I know I’m going to get a lot of trolling for this but I’m gonna write it anyway: It’s like trying to use a manual for a VCR on an effing iPod.

We’re talking about the same people that believe their god is paying attention to a football game to favor them. I mean, that is so freakishly pagan they have no idea how stupid they sound. It’s the Athenians all over again believing Athena would indulgence them over any other city because she was their patron.


Once again, I don’t understand why we, the extraordinary gay people, don’t find a different way to celebrate our (legal) unions. I get the blessing of friends and family and blah blah. But I’m absolutely sure that if we stopped the damn gay weddings for a year or two, the collective consciousness of our non-sexually-fabulous fellow humans would change, favoring rights and not rites.


Friday, February 14, 2014

ROYAL BLUE VALENTINE


Around this time of the year, everything is red, red, red, and I wonder, why instead of passion red we don’t try to make happiness blue. Because sometimes, we’re looking for the right thing in the wrong places, and others, we’re a looking for the wrong thing in the right place. We want everything to be about sexual attraction and desire and hardened body parts. But it happens that many times what we want it’s not necessarily what we need, even if that famous song says “All you need is love.” 

I’m a firm believer that what we need is HAPPINESS, which is a completely different place, a very distinctly mythical animal.

We have been raised to believe that LOVE equates HAPPINESS. And you believe it until you watch Fatal Attraction, The Crush, Disclosure, and many other movies that teach you that not all LOVE is HEALTHY. On the other hand, there’s no such a thing as Poisonous HAPPINESS. 

If you’re happy you want —no, you need everybody around you to be happy too. When you love and you’re not loved back, you get depressed. If you’re happy and those around you don’t want to be happy, well, you sprinkle some rainbows and fairy dust on them, and if that doesn’t work you don’t cut your wrists, you look for a happy solution.

I’m not saying that LOVE is bad. That —more than silly— would be plain stupid. What I’m saying here is that LOVE shouldn’t be the end goal. Your ultimate goal must always be HAPPINESS, and if it comes with a yummy side of sexy love, even better.


So spread the happy and top it up with (good) love.

Friday, November 29, 2013

BLACK FRIDAY FAN FIC (OR SHOULD I SAY SLASH?)

Wow. I've been away for too long, but with one thing or another, life gets in the way and when you find out that your thumbs have been in all the wrong places, you awake from that digit-induced slumber and get back on track. TMI?

I'm a big fan of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series. I love that goofy bounty hunter girl. Nevertheless, I love the men in her life a lot more (double wink) and as a writer of Man on Man love, shouldn't the next logical step be to write something naughty about Carlos Mañoso (aka Ranger) and Joseph Morelli?

Lamentably, I killed Stephanie because, frankly, I couldn't see any other way of putting the two hunks together without being cheating bastards, and that is so not who they are. They love that girl in their own crazy ways, and I used that untimely demise to launch them into each other's arms. And mouths, and other body parts, of course.

And since there is not good writing without hot visuals I decided to use Dionisio Heiderscheid  (better known as D.O. in the  porn world) as inspiration for Ranger, and Lance Parker (American soccer player) for Morelli.



Let me just say—for the erotic record—that the word mañoso in Spanish means among other things: clever, ingenious, crafty, cunning, and even trickster.


And so, without further ado, I give you the first chapter of Mañoso's Hands.


1. Tea vs. Coffee

“You know you are supposed to look at my ass.”

“Yeah, but you aren’t a native girl.”

“I still have a great ass.”

“True.”

Since Morelli woke up first, he was to serve the ceremonial tea, and the contraption was designed in a way where you had to rest your body almost on top of it, making inevitable to show your butt.

His morning wood return in full force after realizing Ranger agreed he had a great ass.
The previous night, their captors had showed them a video with the sick fantasy they were to reenact this morning if they didn’t want to be killed after being sodomized with painful-looking devices. Morelli thought it could be worse. At least, Ranger was a handsome guy.

As he offered the tea, Ranger should have fondled him like the man did the girl in the video. “What are you waiting for?”

“I’m supposed to get you excited, but you already are.” The amusement in Ranger’s tone didn’t escape Morelli.

The curved outline of his cock was clearly visible through the flimsy material around his waist, fighting to go upward. Almost naked was worse than complete nudity.

“Oh shit.”

Morelli awoke with a start.

“Are you all right?” Ranger sounded fully awake.

This wasn’t the first time he’d had that sort of dream about Ranger. They were getting more elaborated each night. He should have known better than to come with Ranger in this camping trip to the Pine Barrens. Yeah, it was the manly way to grieve after Stark Street had finally caught up with Stephanie, and she’d died in the middle of the combat zone while stalking one of her FTA’s. The responsible were in jail, but that was little to no comfort. They hadn’t known how to deal with the pain for the last month, until Ranger came out with this idea.

The leathery sensation of Grandma Mazur’s hands as Morelli patted them, while she cried inconsolably, was fuel for his own sadness. He didn’t like old ladies crying, and even his own grandmother, Bella, who never really liked Stephanie, had cried at the jam-packed funeral. Ranger had been there too, not crying but stoic, surrounded by his Merry men. Still, Morelli caught a rare moment of weakness when Ranger took his shades off; he had watery eyes.

“Joe?”

A shudder ran through him. It was the second time Ranger had called him by his nickname. The first was fogged and almost a memory of torture.

“You sick?”

“No. Just a bad dream. I’m having lot of those lately.” He turned to look at Ranger in the sleeping back next to him.

“I know what you mean. Been having, not bad but weird dreams too.”

“Wanna talk about it?” Was it wrong Morelli was hoping Ranger’s dreams were like his?

“Nope.”

“Cool.” Morelli reassumed a horizontal position and stared at the tent’s roof. He was not going be able to sleep again, though.  “There’s light outside. I’d better start the coffee.”

“It’s your turn anyway.”

“Yeah.”

It was hard to tie his boots with his hard-on chafing in his jeans. Nevertheless, he managed and exited the confined space. He started their breakfast, expecting to do better than Ranger the previous day. The glacial morning breeze helped with his erection like a really cold shower.

The aroma of coffee brought Ranger out of the tent.

-0-

“Taste me.”

“Huh?”

“Ranger, let Morelli taste me from your lips.”

“Babe.”

“It’s my birthday, and you guys promised to do whatever I asked.”

“I think this is too much.” Morelli almost grunted.

Certainly, this was taking that promise too far.

“I’m ready to get out of this bed and leave you two hard and wanting. How about that?”

Ranger and Morelli looked at each other. Ranger turned to Stephanie, “Just the one kiss.”

“Yes. But not a half-assed kiss. I wanna see lots of tongue and enthusiasm.”

Ranger’s face neared Morelli’s. “We’ll never speak about this. Deal?”

“You bet your ass my lips are sealed.”

“After the kiss.” Stephanie giggled as she pulled Morelli and Ranger’s faces together, using her calves over the back of their necks.

“Let’s do this.” Morelli murmured before his lips touched Ranger’s.

Ranger wasn’t prepared to let Morelli dominate the kissing as if he couldn’t live if he didn’t retrieve the every last molecule of Stephanie’s flavor from within Ranger’s mouth. Coming to his senses, Ranger fought back and grabbed Morelli, one hand on his arm and the other pulling Morelli’s nape forcibly, regaining control of the situation, while Stephanie rubbed their cocks with her feet.

He didn’t know when he’d closed his eyes, but now that he opened them, he saw Morelli’s long dark lashes, his tight shut eyes, the perfect curve of his thick eyebrows. He always considered himself man enough, secure of his sexuality enough, to recognize when another guy was attractive.  But he never expected to find Morelli’s features so compelling, especially not in the middle of a—technically—forced kiss.

“Joe.” He exhaled when they didn’t have another option than to separate if they wanted to breathe. Stephanie’s voice in the background, saying how hot they looked together was almost anticlimactic.

“You missing her?”

Morelli’s grave voice trespassed on the fortress of time and distance, bringing Ranger back to reality, to the middle of the Barrens, so close and yet so far from civilization.

“Un-huh,” He hummed noncommittally. Avoiding Morelli’s eyes, he picked up the kettle and poured coffee into his mug. “But it’s getting easier every day. Thanks for doing this.”

“We’re helping each other. I guess, it’s something she’d have liked.”

“True.” Ranger felt strong enough to look into those dark eyes, darker than his own and strangely hypnotic.  “Does this mean we’re becoming closer?”

Morelli seemed puzzled for a moment, then gave him a sinister grin. “I think we’re closer since the night I tasted her from your lips.”

Ranger thanked everything sacred for his poker face. “That’s unmentionable.”

But unforgettable.

“In all honesty, I don’t mention it, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.”

“Why?”

Determination surged on Morelli’s stubbly face. “We should do it again.”

“Neither of us is gay.”

“So?”

That wasn’t the answer Ranger had expected. Perhaps Morelli was on the same page, fighting with the same unexpected attraction. Those lips tempted him like not many things had tempted Ranger in his life. “Why the fuck no?”

“That’s what I’m talking about.” Morelli started to move from his log toward Ranger’s.

“Stay where you are.” Ranger put his mug down, ate the short distance and grabbed Morelli’s neck, straddling the log. He started the kiss with open eyes, but as Morelli closed his, he did the same, surrendering to their need.


I'll post the following chapters here and on Goodreads. Enjoy.