Chapter Fifteen

Hollis

Throughout the meal, Hollis did his best to present the professional he was.

Really?

I did!

It was pointless to argue with his animal half when his hormones had shifted around inside him to create a heady mix of want and need. One more powerful than he'd expected. It hit harder and faster than an indie racing car. Hollis had fought himself—he had—then done the only sensible thing and given in, telling everyone at the table what was going to happen.

Who knew what would be in the PA group chat when his body stopped playing with him—did he care? Part of the reason he'd lingered too long in the restaurant was just that and as speedily as they'd left, he was now in trouble. He should have prompted an earlier conversation with the others about what was going to happen.

What is happening right now, his animal pointed out in a snarky way that riled Hollis up further. His skin flamed with the need to be naked. To have Taylin's large body against his without any barriers.

In his current state, Hollis directed all the roiling passions at the man who'd violently defended him against the unwanted attentions of another alpha. Through the tunnel vision of lust, a part of Hollis understood how dicey things could have gotten. Despite that, another part hadn't contemplated a different outcome, even with the seriousness of the situation.

Witnessing Taylin acting all aggressive over him… should he have gotten pissed at that?

Good luck with that. Your hunger is my hunger, his animal came back with, pushing all of Hollis's buttons with images, flooding his mind with them as he devoured the mouth crushing his. An image of biting at Taylin's throat while being impaled on his cock, his knot stretching him until all he could feel was the burn, made him shudder and rock against Taylin's body wildly.

Was he gasping into Taylin's mouth? It sure as hell felt like it as he fought his baser instincts while his tongues delved inside Taylin's parted lips. One wrapped around it, while the over teased at where the taste buds were eliciting a guttural moan which vibrated through both men.

Had anyone ever defended him so animalistically? If they had, Hollis had no recollection of it, and it fed his inner desire. A fierce and commanding Taylin—something Hollis had never witnessed before and never thought Taylin capable of—was wholly different.

Taylin's aggressive energy fueled the insatiable side of Hollis that his heat brought on. Gone was the man who thought too much and worried about professional boundaries. Taylin's behavior tore away the last vestiges of Hollis's resistance. His attraction to Taylin from the beginning paled into insignificance. The revelation of what hid underneath that calm exterior scorched a path directly to Hollis's soul.

He understood there was no going back now, that Taylin was his. It was a moot point—how could it be anything else when Hollis was grinding on a rock hard cock and sucking and playing with Taylin's tongue like it was his favorite strawberry lollipop?

Hunger drove Hollis to deepen the kiss, demanding more from Taylin. His taste was more of an explosion of exotic flavors that drove the craving higher. He clawed at Taylin's clothes blindly, to get to the warm, fragrant skin beneath. His hips gyrated in a sexy rhythm as his slick scented the air. The feel of stickiness at the back of his trousers sent out a signal of his neediness for his alpha .

He groaned in dismay when hot, erratic breaths touched his face as the ripe tasting lips disappeared. Ripples of desire that charged thousands of cells and made his body hum, lessened.

In a daze, he groaned in frustration when Taylin evaded him. "Don't stop," he begged, freeing his hands from the torn shirt to clasp Taylin's head and forcibly bring his mouth back to where it belonged.

"We… need… out… of the lift," Taylin wheezed breathlessly, staggering as he dodged Hollis's wet, hungry kisses.

There were voices coming through the fog clouding everything, but Hollis didn't care about them. He wanted his alpha . Needed him to help with the wildness running through him that only the enormous cock pulsing against his ass would assuage. "Fuck me," he demanded against Taylin's throat, where he trailed kisses in the absence of Taylin's mouth.

Hollis buried his face into the musky skin and bit hard enough to get a curse and a full body shudder. The cock under his ass hardened and pushed up.

Oh yeah!

Hollis ground down, his thighs squeezing tightly and angled his ass to rub on the head of the pulsing shaft under too many layers.

Taylin cursed loudly, or so Hollis thought, but he was enjoying himself. His teeth sinking deeper into the flesh, as desperate as his animal to taste Taylin's life force.

At the odd jostling that lifted his hips up and down, Hollis's lips quirked up. "Yes… more… naked… need to be naked," he demanded, unable to focus on anything other than how his ass ached to be filled. For Taylin's thick shaft to slide deep inside him… fill him until Taylin sated the wild cravings.

Nothing else would do, not even his toys, now he had Taylin's scent in his nose. There was jostling and more noise, none of it made any sense .

A feeling of falling got his eyes to open as he landed and bounced on something soft… a bed.

Yes!

"Nooooo," he cried when he got some of his brain cells to work and noticed Taylin heading back for the door. His nose wrinkled in distress while his ears pounded with the rate of his heartbeat.

Go get him, his animal stated, none too happily.

Hollis didn't need his animal side to encourage him. He scrambled off the bed like a heat-seeking missile locked on his target, only with an uncoordinated body.

Taylin stopped at the open door then slammed it shut, but Hollis's heat made it impossible to compute why he wasn't naked and giving Hollis what he desired.

"Need you," Hollis sobbed in desperation as he grabbed Taylin's shredded jacket and yanked it off.

When Taylin swung around, his chest heaving, what was left of his shirt whipped at Hollis's face. Their gazes locked and the air between them buzzed with the fierceness of their mutual desire. Hollis felt it right down to his bone, to his heart, connecting him—connecting them. The rawness of desire was too much to resist, so he didn't. He launched himself at Taylin, only to find air where Taylin had stood.

Taylin's hands came up to ward him off as he backed away. "Fuck, you're killing me," he rasped. "Gotta lock the door before I lose myself in you. Please, I need to keep you safe."

At the frantic beat of his own thudding heart, the words came mashed together. At a resounding clicking sound, Taylin returned his attention to Hollis. Trembling hands tugged at what remained of his shirt, throwing it on the floor where the jacket lay.

Yes!

Naked was what Hollis wanted.

Hollis mindlessly tore at his own clothes, his hands uncoordinated, his brain running faster than a cheetah at its top speed. Some part of him registered that Taylin's actions were about keeping him safe, which spread a warmth through him. It was wholly different from that of his heat, and it made his chest swell with something he wasn't in the right mind to consider.

Later, worry about it later.

The time for logic was gone—his animal was right—when a naked and fully aroused Taylin was stalking him. His eyes blazed with the beast inside he couldn't transform into, but it was there, showing Hollis's animal he wanted them. Hollis' animal reacted and used his own method to attract its mate; he whistled.

The musical sound startled Taylin into immobility. His head titled to the left, and then he snarled, a sound that sent shivers of longing through Hollis and straight to his ass.

Next thing, Taylin came at Hollis so fast he didn't have a chance to blink before Taylin had his arms around him. Full body contact came with a low moan that vibrated through both men when Taylin effortlessly lifted Hollis's naked body into the air so their mouths became aligned. Taylin kissed him with a passion so breathtaking, Hollis sank into the headiness of it without a thought about his need to breathe. It addled his already confused brain when his lungs screamed for air and he found they were back on the bed.

He had wrapped his thighs around Taylin and cradled him against his pelvis, rocking up to get as much friction on his throbbing shaft. Firm, warm flesh rubbed against his, stimulating his overheated body. The scents in the room were powerful enough that Hollis's animal pushed him to shift.

I need Taylin.

Give me a minute, he snapped sulkily, you always get to have all the fun times. I want to play.

Hollis fought his animal and the sulky tone, only his animal wasn't listening and before Hollis could stop him, the shift was upon them.

"Holy shit," Taylin exclaimed, rolling immediately onto his back. Wide eyed, he stared at Hollis. A second passed before he reached out to run a finger gently over the top of his pygmy loris's head. "Fuck, I knew you'd be beautiful, Hollis."

The reverence they could hear was all the invitation his animal needed to crawl up on top of Taylin and for him to whistle again, presenting itself in a submissive pose on his chest.

Everything else ceased to matter in that moment when Taylin's growls rumbled with a possessiveness that Hollis's animal fawned over.

Time passed as Hollis receded, knowing his animal wanted the time to acquaint itself with Taylin.

Our mate.

In his mind, he chuckled at the assertion. Hollis's awareness in his animal form varied depending on his animal 's mood. Right now, he was helping Hollis control the wild urges while in his animal form. Hollis had never shifted when he was in heat before, so this was new to him.

He's our mate, everything is different this time.

Hollis was sure his animal was right, but he worried his reaction was all because of his body's soup of pheromones.

Stop being so stupid! Smell him. Taste him.

Before he could argue that he could do none of those things in his animal form, he shifted once more with no warning, finding himself sat astride Taylin's large body. Golden, hairless skin had a thin layer of sweat covering it. It glistened in the low lights above the bed, highlighting all the dips and curves of Taylin's musculature.

"Beautiful," Hollis whimpered as he came forward, his desperation returning in a violent rush of endorphins. His hands slid over the silky feeling skin, his body gliding down Taylin's. The movement caused his breath to arrest in his chest when his slick ass moved down the hard shaft under him. His ass clenched and the slick coming from him coated the cock he sat on top of. There was no thought to stop himself rocking back and forth to elevate the molten fire singing through his veins.

Taylin bucked beneath him, thrusting up, adding friction causing them both to release throaty groans.

"More," Hollis whimpered when he got his breath back. "Want you inside me. Want to feel your knot."

Beneath his ass, the cock swelled impossibly bigger, branding Hollis's ass. He rocked, groaned and mewled, begging for more. The ache deep inside him was impossible to think past it. To give him time to get with the programme of how to make it happen when all his senses were being bombarded at once. At home, with his toys, he could prepare.

Here and now, with the cock beneath him, which teased him mercilessly, he had no presence of mind.

"In me," he begged. "In, me, now." The words came from his desire. He rose and slick dripped from him as he reached between his legs and groaned at the slippery, pulsing hardness.

Taylin's groan sounded painful as it rent the air and his hands took hold of Hollis in a punishing grip. He reveled at it. Losing control was what he and his animal wanted. They pursued Taylin, wanting him to be as mindless as them.

The sounds of their rapid breathing didn't quite mask the squelching noise as Hollis's ass painted the head of Taylin's cock, which throbbed in time to Hollis's own heartbeat, fast and wild. Time and time again, he used his aching hole and circled his hips so the head of Taylin's dick opened his ass.

"Fuck, that's hot," Taylin rasped. Nerve endings woke to the stimulation, but it was Taylin's words that added power to the desire to sink down and feel the hot, hard cock split him open.

Dark, deep pools of desire held Hollis's gaze. His desire was evident as his ass opened, taking the head of Taylin's cock. The slick made his ass yield and his muscles burn in delight as Hollis squeezed, producing more slick.

"Motherfucker," Taylin ground out, coming up off the bed, his cock sinking deeper, rubbing against the nerves and driving Hollis wild for more .

Hollis's brain didn't compute that it should maybe wait with how thick and long Taylin's cock was. Fuck no, he reached back and held onto his ass cheeks, stretching himself wide and, in a fluid move, slid down until his ass hit Taylin's groin.

"Fucker… what… oh fuck… don't fucking move," Taylin cried out as if in pain. His eyes rolled back as the grip on Hollis increased. He suspected there'd be bruises and his animal fawned at the idea once more.

"More… need you to move," Hollis growled, uncaring of how harsh Taylin's hold was, or how his ass was adjusting to the wonderful burn and stretch of his muscles. His toys had never filled him so full.

The air hissed through his teeth when Taylin ignored his demand. Never one to wait, his animal side forced the matter. His teeth became sharper as he surged forward and his mouth opened to latch on Taylin's throat.

They moaned together, Taylin pushing into the scrape of teeth and that was all the invitation they needed. He struck true and at the first sip of blood touching his tongues, Hollis lost it.

It was surreal how everything faded away and his body quaked, and sparks lit behind his eyelids in an array of fireworks that burst with beauty as his eyelids drifted shut. Nothing he'd felt or seen was more beautiful than Taylin taking up residence in his soul. He nestled right in, Hollis could feel his presence right along with his animals.

Tears ran unheeded down his cheeks, unnoticed as the potent desire followed quickly in its wake to assault Hollis's senses. Violent shivers came in the aftermath and Hollis swallowed deep to assuage the hunger.

"Yes… my sweet pygmy loris… claim me… I'm yours," Taylin moaned, driving his desire higher.

Hollis's ass contracted as he rose to help alleviate the ache that increased tenfold with the taste of Taylin. His fingers fisted in Taylin's curls, dragging him closer to slam back down on the hard shaft. The feel of it stroking deep drove him on to repeat the move, stealing his sanity with how he couldn't feel Taylin deep enough.

"Deeper," he growled breathlessly. "Need you deeper."

In response, Taylin's hands went under his ass, holding him as he came up.

Before Hollis could complain at Taylin's cock sliding from his body, he landed on the mattress. Taylin placed his legs on his shoulders, and he sank back into Hollis. Taylin came forward, his cock brushing all the right places as his arms supported him and caged Hollis in. A light of wickedness was the only warning as Taylin powered into him with a force that made the bed creak.

"Yes," Hollis moaned, "yes… deeper. Need it."

His cock bobbed in time to his pulse. Every forward thrust caused Taylin's stomach muscles to graze sensually against the head of Hollis's weeping cock.

"Yes… gods… more. Want your mouth on me," he gasped, knowing it was impossible, but his logical mind wasn't in charge.

He moaned in complaint when Taylin changed position, his eyelids too heavy to lift. They struggled to get with the programme and do what he wanted when he heard noise and Taylin hips stilled.

"Ohhhhhhh," Hollis moaned, when his cock got sucked into the fleshlight and a moment later, Taylin grasped the back of one of Hollis's legs while the other took hold of the fleshlight.

Then Hollis's world became a sensory display of pleasure that didn't miss one cell in his body. The passion skipped about causing utter chaos until Hollis no longer had a thought beyond the need to come.

"Wanna come," he whined mindlessly, his body on the brink but somehow unable to dive off the platform into the abyss of pleasure waiting for him.

"I'll give you everything you want, I swear," Taylin growled harshly. Skin slapping loudly came with desperate panting as sweat gathered on Hollis's skin. The deep seated ache in his ass grew until there was only that. He clenched down and thrust up when Taylin slammed deep. Before he could register the powerful pull on his sac and the surge of gut wrenching need pulsing down his cock, Taylin claimed his mouth.

He bit at the two tongues winding around his. Blood, his own, filled Hollis's mouth and Taylin's knot expanded, sealing them together as cum pumped deep in his ass. It seared and burned along with the stretch of the knot.

Unbelievable, mind-altering pleasure came when the knot locked them together. Hollis, unaware of his actions, tore the fleshlight from his cock at the first spurt of cum tearing from him. Cum coated him and Taylin with his scent. His primal side needed to mark his mate while Taylin's knot made them one.

Made them whole—

Ours, his animal interjected as Taylin's cum continued to pump deep in Hollis's ass, his cock giving up its last valiant spurts.

Ours!