Chapter 7

Seven

Charlie waved and headed out to the walkway. He wanted to grab something easy to eat, go home, and text Kaleb.

See how the dogs were.

He'd been…seeing Kaleb for a few weeks now. The house was great, but it was Kaleb he was really interested in, and Charlie was willing to admit it to himself now.

Kaleb was…sweet. Gentle. But still alpha enough to thrill Charlie to his toes. And he loved Kaleb's smile.

Still, they hadn't had sex yet. Soon, he hoped. He was…wanting. It was a great feeling.

Maybe this weekend.

Heading home. How's you?> he sent, unable to wait until he got home.

He got three dots for a long while. Then he got @#$%. I blew the whole fuse box and the RV is dead>

Charlie didn't bother to text back, he just called. "Hey. Come to the apartment for the night. Bring the dogs. I'll order Se?or Dragon's. They deliver."

"Oh, wow. Really? Are you sure?" Kaleb's smile was one hundred percent evident in his voice. "I could probably go to the hotel, but the hot springs is having that thing tonight."

"No. Please. Come on. I'll be home in about…twenty minutes? We'll meet each other there, probably."

"I'll load up the dogs. And an overnight bag?"

His heartbeat kicked into high gear. "Absolutely."

"That's the best thing I've heard in a couple of long days. I'll be there." Kaleb hung up, and he had to grin.

In fact, he grinned all the way home.

He managed to get home and out of his work clothes about the time that Kaleb knocked, the dogs bouncing in.

"Guys! Hey!" He got snuggles and slobbers, those tails wagging hard. He gave ear scratches, laughing as they mauled him.

"Come on, puppers. Let Charlie breathe. Hey, honey." Kaleb hung up leashes and his jacket, then came to give him a kiss, warm and intimate.

"Hey." He pushed up, letting the kiss go deeper, hotter. He wrapped his arms around Kaleb's neck, holding on, and Kaleb pulled him close, their bodies rubbing together.

"Mmm." Kaleb hummed, but they both yelped when cold noses pressed between them.

"Someone's jealous, hmm?" He reached down to snuggle the pups, scratch their ears.

"They're just excited from being in the car." Kaleb grinned. "And to see you."

"They love me. I know it." He smiled at Kaleb, hating the stress he saw. "Are you okay? Come in and sit, we'll order food."

"Ugh." Kaleb rubbed the back of his neck, going to sit on the couch. Then he popped back up. "Do you have a Coke?"

"I do. Sit. Please. You look so tired." He stood and grabbed two cans of Coke from his fridge.

"How was your day, honey?" Kaleb sat, the dogs starting to hop up. "No, you louts. Leave room for Charlie."

"Just work. The latest room is finished and Mr. Harlan was pleased with it." He was too. It was going to bring in more money, and be a wonderful place to stay.

"Good deal. That was the suite, right? The one the gunslinger used to stay in back in the day?" Kaleb put a hand on his leg as soon as he sat down. Kaleb was super tactile, but never…invasive.

"It was. We went with Old West, but not tacky, you know?"

"I do. You have a great eye." Kaleb leaned back on the couch, pressing the Coke can to his forehead.

"Oh, honey…" He stood and moved around the sofa to start massaging Kaleb's shoulders, using his thumbs to dig in.

"Mmm. I feel bad. You're the one who had to work all day. I was just dealing with a big money-sucking house." Kaleb moaned, letting his head fall forward.

"Evil money-sucking house." He just kept rubbing, searching for a way to ease his…friend.

"Mmmm." Kaleb's little sounds made him feel so much more than friendly. "Thank you, love. Come sit with me." Kaleb grabbed his hand and pulled him back around.

He overbalanced a bit and landed half in Kaleb's lap.

"What do you want to eat, honey?" He kissed Kaleb, brushing their lips together.

"Did you say something about Senor's? I love the green chile egg rolls and the carne asada noodles." Kaleb put a hand behind his head to pull him in for a longer kiss.

Oh. He moaned, trying to focus on food, but?—

But this kiss was curling his toes and it was too good to stop. Kaleb kissed him as if there was nothing else he would rather do.

The restaurant was open for another four hours. He could wait.

Kaleb pulled back to breathe, staring into his eyes. "Is this okay, Charlie? I want you more than supper, but I won't push."

"Everyone told you about me, didn't they?"

Kaleb paused, searching his face. "Hank and Kynan both said you'd had a hard time of it. That you'd been hurt in an attack. I just want you to know that we can stop any time, not that this is a weird pity thing, okay?"

"I'm not—they didn't rape me. They beat me up, left me for dead. I'm not. I can't play. But I'm not dead."

"I kinda figured that by the way you kiss me." Kaleb traced his lips. "I'm glad."

"Yeah, me too. I'm so glad. I'm not scared."

"Then kiss me again." Kaleb's lips curved in a devastating smile, and that mouth touched his again.

He opened up, pressing their bellies together, letting Kaleb feel his need. He was hard already; maybe he had been since Kaleb had said he was coming for the night…

"I want you," he whispered. He was wet and aching, his body ready for Kaleb.

"Good." That was a little smug, that word, but it made him laugh, not get huffy. He was pleased Kaleb was proud to have him. He wanted Kaleb to want him just as badly. "You can have anything you want, Charlie. Anything at all."

"Promise?"

"Yes." Kaleb pulled him the rest of the way over onto those strong thighs. "I want to give it to you."

"Good." He pulled off Kaleb's shirt, baring that broad chest. "You're beautiful."

"Thank you, sweet." Kaleb pulled at his sweater. "You too."

He wasn't as pretty, but fair was fair, and he didn't want Kaleb to balk, so he stripped it off, baring himself.

"Mmm." Kaleb stroked his chest, then thumbed his nipples. "So damn pretty. I could just love on you forever, Charlie."

"That's a really long time." And he was in.

Or he wanted Kaleb in.

"It is." Kaleb slid one hand down his belly to his pants' waistband. "I'm one of those guys who knows when I want to keep something good."

"Do you? I'm not—I don't have a huge future, but—" He was a good man.

"Charlie. You're here with me, and I want you. You want me. That's the perfect thing. And you even like my house." Kaleb grimaced. "Which is a nightmare right now, and I would rather focus on you."

Lifting him up, Kaleb got his pants undone.

"Just focus on me. I'll make it better." He wanted to make Kaleb need as much as he did.

"You always do." Kaleb kissed him again, and he couldn't catch his breath, because the need had ratcheted up between them.

He worked his jeans open, standing to shove them down, keeping their mouths together. It was easy, really. Kaleb was like a magnet, pulling him in.

Those big hands cupped his butt as soon as he was bare, pulling him down again to rub against Kaleb's belly.

"You next. Need your prick." Oh, he felt so daring.

"You can have it. All of it." Kaleb helped lift him up again, and he watched in anticipation as Kaleb opened his jeans and skinned out of them along with his work boots and boxer briefs. Oh, that was worth waiting for.

He reached out, hands wrapping around Kaleb's heavy cock.

"Uhnnn." Those gray eyes went wide, Kaleb watching him, lips parted. "Damn, baby. That feels so good."

"You are going to taste amazing."

"You like that, Charlie? Do you want to put your mouth on me?"

His heart pounded as he nodded. "I do. I like sucking. I want to make you need me."

"Then I'm all yours." Kaleb spread his arms along the back of the couch, lifting his hips as in invitation.

He grabbed a pillow for his knees, then settled between Kaleb's legs. He pushed his hands under Kaleb's butt and tugged them closer together.

"Look at you, pulling me around." Kaleb let him too. That body didn't look like the body of a guy who sat and did investments. Charlie was an athlete; he knew better.

He licked his lips. "How did you stay in shape? Before you started working on your house?"

"Hiking with the dogs. Rafting in the summer. And I worked with Habitat for Humanity. A lot."

"I love that. I could raft, I think. I think I'd like it a lot." Not as much as he'd like that cock in his mouth though.

"I can take you this summer." Kaleb reached down with one hand, petting his hair, then guiding him down to take a taste. His lips opened, and he sucked the mushroom tip in, swiping at the liquid drops he found there with his tongue.

Salty and bitter and perfect.

Charlie pressed down, his muscles going tight.

Kaleb groaned, hands gentle where they landed on his head. Those long fingers worked against his scalp in a massage, and he panted, working as far down as he could before pulling back up.

"Fuck…babe, please."

Charlie loved the desperation in Kaleb's voice.

"Mmmhmmm." He did it again. Then again. He bounced his head, licking and sucking, that cock growing even more between his lips.

"Gonna make love to you. Gonna knot you and stroke you until you scream."

He shivered, his whole body on fire. He would nod if he could, but he wanted that. Charlie had never wanted anyone to knot him, but Kaleb, he needed it from.

His body felt as if it was on fire, like he'd been lit from the inside.

"Soon, baby." Kaleb lifted his face up, staring into his eyes. "I need you back up here."

He swallowed hard, one hand cupping Kaleb's balls.

"Charlie!" Kaleb pulled him off gently, then dragged him up that long body.

"H-hello." Charlie shivered against him.

"Hello, love." Kaleb kissed him, then pulled him down to straddle those long thighs.

"I need you. I…touch me?" He moved and leaned in for a kiss.

"Anything." Kaleb gave him kisses, all the while petting and stroking. His back, his thighs, his cock. His whole body heated, his skin going tight.

It was almost too much, too wild, and he needed to move.

"You all right, Charlie?"

Charlie nodded wildly. "I just—I'm so hot. I'm going up in flames."

Kaleb pulled back slightly to look at him. "I'll take care of you."

"I trust you. Help me."

"Yes." Pushing one hand down under him from behind, Kaleb touched his hole, which was aching for just that contact. "Oh, you're wet for me. I love that."

Charlie's cheeks were on fire. But he was wet and aching and hard as a rock. He'd never felt like this in his life.

"Going to open you up for my knot now."

"Please." Charlie's lips parted as Kaleb pressed in, spreading him and making him shake.

"That's it, love." Kaleb pushed in a finger, then two, not lingering or making him wait. Just moving, keeping him stretched, getting him good and spread.

"Gonna need you soon." His body ached, and all he could think of was how badly he needed Kaleb's cock.

"I know. I can tell. You're trying to pull me in." Kaleb laughed, the sound low and heated, rough as a corn cob. Those fingers drove him higher and higher, making him squirm and moan. "Are you ready to ride, sweet?"

"Yes. Yes. I'm ready. I need." He arched, kneeling up high.

"So fucking perfect." The words were rough, but the tone was reverent. Kaleb was right there with him. Those hands bracketed his hips, and Kaleb helped to lift him so the broad head of that cock could probe his hole.

He sank down, his eyes going so wide that they pulled at the corners.

"Charlie." Kaleb stared into him, just growling out his name in a way that made him shiver, his ass clenching hard around Kaleb's cock.

He wondered if this was what heat sex felt like.

If so, he wanted to be in heat daily.

Maybe more.

"Harder, Kaleb."

"Love." Kaleb's wild grin made him laugh for sheer joy, and then Kaleb was pulling him down and arching up, banging right into him.

His toes curled as he took Kaleb all the way in to the root. The feeling of Kaleb's knot swelling inside him made him groan and grasp at those wide shoulders. His head fell back, his body trying to adjust. "Feel you. Your knot."

He felt everything.

"Good. I want you to. I want to feel every move you make. I want to see your face when you come."

God, Kaleb made him feel fine, beautiful. Needed.

Safe.

He hadn't felt safe enough to want a man in so long. And now he knew what it was like again.

"I swear, I'll never hurt you." Kaleb's whisper sounded like a prayer as those strong hands began to move him, dragging him up and down the heavy cock.

"I know. I do." Charlie nodded, breathless, and he added a little bounce of his own to the mix, which had Kaleb moaning. They created an amazing circuit of pleasure, loving on each other hard.

The world stopped and all Charlie knew was this—Kaleb and pressure and heat and pleasure that threatened to short him out. They rocked and moved, and that knot caught inside him, and he knew why there were alphas and omegas and why this was so damn important. All of a sudden. Boom.

He leaned back, trusting in Kaleb's hands to support him, exposing himself, stretching up tall and rolling his hips.

"So damn pretty," Kaleb murmured, hand sliding on his cock, which had him moving even faster, trying to get more of everything.

"Don't stop. Please. I need you." He didn't feel the slightest bit embarrassed to beg.

"Not going to stop, honey. I couldn't if I wanted to." Kaleb's voice had gone down a whole octave, he thought. It was almost a gravelly growl. "Have to knot you so good."

"Yes. Please. I want to be right here with you." He wanted their bodies to meld together.

"Uh-huh." Kaleb watched him, hands like iron on his hips. They were barely moving now, just short, sharp thrusts that pushed Kaleb even deeper.

His body tightened, he grabbed Kaleb's shoulders, and he shot, his ass muscles clenching down on that amazing cock.

"Fuck!" Kaleb arched up underneath him, knot lodging so tight he could barely breathe, so that he wanted to scream, it was so good. Then Kaleb came for him, hot, wet jets of seed filling him.

He slumped forward, snuggling in, his cock pulsing weakly as that knot shifted inside him.

"Uhn." Kaleb held him up, let him lean on his wide chest. "I—Nope. No words."

"Mmhmm. Stay." He'd order food later.

"Yes, please." Kaleb looked over his shoulder, chuckling. "The dogs went to lie down where they can't see us."

"Oh, good. That would be weird."

"They're nosy, but not stupid."

"They're amazing. I love them both, dearly."

"I know. That's one reason I'm crazy about you. You never acted like they were a nuisance." Kaleb stroked his back, then pulled a throw off the back of the couch to wrap them.

"They're angels." He sighed and closed his eyes. "I'll call for food…later."

"We can always make soup out of a can if we need to."

"Or get Hannah to deliver from the truck stop." Charlie grinned, because while Secret Springs wasn't really big enough for Door Dash, they had some amazing entrepreneurs who would do the job.

"Mmm…my brilliant lover."

Charlie chuckled softly, but he snuggled in. He could live with that.

Lover.