32. Maverick

Maverick

“Oh, holy fuck, you feel so damn good. So good, Coop.” My fingers dig into his hips as I slam inside of him over and over, my balls pulling up against my body and tingling with my impending release.

He looks over his shoulder at me, his eyes so full of trust and love.

I love him. So damn much. And I can’t believe I almost lost him. I was a fool. But not anymore. And yes, my phone has been blowing up all day, but I don’t care about any of it.

As soon as we got through my door, we rushed to my room, stripping out of our clothes, and frantically kissing. I barely had time to prep him before I put a condom on and slid into him from behind.

“We have to get tested. I want you bare inside me,” he says as he moves his hips gracefully and desperately at the same time, meeting all my thrusts as I peg his prostate over and over. I’m determined to make him come first, and I’m right on the edge.

“Yes. I want that.” I drag one hand over his spine, over each notch, reveling in the feel of him.

Suddenly, I need to see him, a panic racing through me like I’ve never known. I’m desperate to see his face and know he’s really here with me. I pull out and quickly roll him to his back before I find his hole and slide inside again, both of us moaning loudly as I fill him.

“Yes,” he breathes as he grabs his cock and strokes furiously. “Right there. Just like that.” He spreads his legs further, and I look into his eyes, seeing the want and lust in them. It drives me crazy and spurs me on as I slam into him repeatedly.

When I look down to where our bodies are joined, my cock sliding into his stretched hole, that’s all I can take. Exquisite fire spreads down my spine to my balls, and I detonate, crying out as I come so hard, it forces my eyes closed and causes my entire body to tense.

I hear Coop cry out and open my eyes just in time to see his cum spurt from the head of his dick. “Oh, holy fuck, that’s hot,” I say as I move inside him, riding out the last bit of my orgasm, his ass strangling my dick as I pump into him.

Wishing I was leaving my cum inside him and not the stupid condom. “Come shower with me,” I say as I lean forward and kiss his forehead.

He offers me a sleepy smile and nods. I pull out of him gently and toss the condom before we head into my bathroom, climbing under the warm spray of the shower.

“What made you do that today, of all days? I know you didn’t plan the public outing, but I mean, why today?” he asks with quiet vulnerability.

“I don’t know. There were so many times I wanted to call you. I kept hearing you say you needed time and would talk myself out of it.” I lather up and start to clean his body. “But I couldn’t stay away anymore. I had to see you, and when I did, I just knew I needed you.”

“I’m so glad you did.” He falls into me, tucking himself against my chest while I wrap my arms around him. “I missed you so much, Maverick. I was trying to be strong, but I thought about you every single day.”

“Me too.” I kiss his forehead.

He sniffles, and I lift his head to see he’s crying, the shower running over his hair and washing his tears away. “Is this going to work out?”

I nod immediately instead of shrugging. Because if you’d have asked me before Cooper whether there are any guarantees in love, I’d have laughed. But after knowing Coop? “I’m never letting you go again. We’ll make it work.”

He smiles brightly, and his entire face lights up. I know that was the right answer. We finish showering and dry off. I open the bedroom door so the animals can come in if they want, and then we lie down on my bed, under the covers and staying totally naked.

I need to feel his skin on mine. I need to bask in his body heat and just hold him to me, so I do.

“You graduated,” I say, not a question because I heard he did from Sebastian. But I still want to talk about it.

“I did.” I feel him stiffen a little before lifting his eyes to mine. “I’m sorry I didn’t invite you. I wanted you there so damn badly.”

I kiss his forehead and then hold him to me even closer, his face tucked into my neck. “I didn’t deserve to be there.”

“You didn’t have to come out for me, Maverick.”

“I did it for me too, Cooper. I needed to do it. I have no idea how I waited so long. It’s like a weight has been lifted off me. I thought I didn’t need to because it was no one’s business, and I still feel that way, but I did it for me because no one has the right to make me hide.”

I hear his sniffle and feel his warm tears on my neck.

“Coop?”

He sniffs again, but then I feel him smiling against my skin. “That’s just beautiful. I’m so happy that you get to be you.”

I smile. “Me too.” I breathe him in, loving that he smells like my body wash but also that it smells unique on his skin. “So, what now? Veterinary school, right?”

He nods against me but doesn’t let me go, and I’m more than content to just hold him. “I start in the fall. I guess this summer, I’ll just be volunteering and working.”

“Yeah . . .” I swallow hard, worrying about this next part. “About that . . .”

Now he pulls back enough to look into my eyes, worry written across his brow. “What’s wrong?”

I smile, hoping to soothe him. “Nothing. I just . . . I came out to my parents. Or . . . well, I said out loud what they already knew.” He’s smiling widely at that now. “I told them I’m bisexual, and they sort of already knew about us.”

He laughs. “What did they say?”

“Well, my mom had a lot to say, mostly that I’m an idiot and I needed to get you back.” He offers a slight chuckle, his cheeks pinking. “My dad just grunted his approval.”

He laughs. “Sounds about right.”

“Yeah,” I say with a grin because my parents are amazing. “But um . . . I told my mom you’d likely have the summer open.”

“Okay?” He says this carefully, and I don’t know why I can’t just spit it out. I guess because I don’t want him to feel pressured.

“You can say no.”

“You’re making me nervous,” he says with a smile.

“Okay, well, I’m going to be on the road a lot, and I really want you to come with me. I mean, only if you want to. I don’t want you to . . .” He stops my rambling by placing two fingers over my mouth, and I smile.

“I would love to, Mav. I really would. I love racing, and to get to travel with you would be a dream . . .”

“But?” I ask because there’s definitely a but.

“But I need to save. I don’t have enough to pay for all four years of veterinary school.” I open my mouth to speak, but he silences me again. Probably assuming I’m going to offer to pay for it—which I so would if I thought he’d let me—but I let him go on. “You can’t pay for it.” I knew it.

I grin at that and then nod, removing his fingers from my lips and holding that hand in mine. “I know. I mean, I would.” He starts to argue with me, but I kiss him softly to stop that. But I quickly get wrapped up in the feeling of his very naked body against mine, our cocks hardening as we kiss and writhe against each other.

He pushes on my shoulder and rolls on top of me as we kiss, his fingers going through my hair. I gasp into his mouth when the head of his cock catches on mine, my fingers going to his asscheeks.

But then I remember we were talking. “Wait,” I breathe, and he pulls back a little to look down into my eyes.

“What’s wrong?” He’s breathless, his lips puffy and pink. I don’t really want to talk when he’s looking at me like this, but I need to.

“My mom needs help out on the ranch.” I blurt out, and his eyebrows raise.

“You really want to talk about your mom right now?” he asks, his hard cock dragging against mine.

“Well, no,” I say and squeeze his cute little ass.

He laughs and then rolls off me to his back. My cock weeps and is mad as hell at me, but talk first. We can do this.

“She’d like to offer you a job at the ranch. There’s this cute little cabin near their place for rent. I thought we could rent it, and we can help out my mom. Then go on the road. She can take care of the animals.”

“I can’t ask your mom to pay me. I mean, I don’t mind helping her out at all.” He bites his lower lip, and I use my finger to free his poor abused lip from his teeth and roll to my side to face him.

“I could pay you.”

He rolls his neck to look at me. “Even weirder.”

I laugh. “Look, she really does need the help. And you’d get lots of experience with animals over the summer. The schedule would be flexible, so you can travel with me, and you can save.”

Even though as far as I’m concerned, he won’t need the money. My money is his, whether he knows it yet or not. “So you want to . . .” I swear I’m holding my breath as I listen to him. “You want to move to Oklahoma for the summer with me? And Ralph, Rosie, and Scrappy,” I tease, leaning over to nuzzle his neck with my lips. “You can say no. I know they need you at the shelter and you like your job at the bar.”

I pull back to look at him, nervously biting on his bottom lip. “I want to say yes.”

“But?”

He turns so he’s lying on his side too. “The shelter . . .”

I nod in acknowledgment because I thought that would probably be the hold-back. “I get it. I really do. I don’t want you to do anything you don’t want to, Coop. I can go on the road, and I’ll come home to you every single time.”

His hand moves over my bicep slowly. “Maybe George or David could help out at the shelter and keep me updated . . .”

Hope blooms in my chest because I really want this but only if he does. “I’m sure they would. And it’s not all that far away. We can visit.”

He nods his head, thinking it over before a slow smile takes over his lips. “Yes. I want this. I really, really want this. It would be an amazing experience. To get to work with all those animals. Get to be around your parents. Get to travel with you. God, Maverick. I want that so badly.”

“Then we’ll do it,” I say effortlessly and hug him to me.

“We can do anything, can’t we?” He says it with so much wonder and awe, my heart nearly explodes in my chest.

“Yeah. Together, we can do just about anything.”

I kiss him again before we start to make plans and then wind up celebrating with orgasms before we finally decide to get some food.

We’re going to do it all.