Chapter 23

Chase chargedthrough my shop door around 11 a.m., a manic look to him.

“What happened?” I asked, heart skipping.

“We did it!” He grabbed me and spun us clumsily, nearly knocking us down in the process.

I laughed as I caught myself against the counter while Briar watched with wide eyes. “Gigi isn’t selling?”

“Oh, she is, but she’s letting us buy Fox Entertainment. My sister, her husband, and my cousin are all going in with me, so we can build on what I started. This is a real future for Fox. It’s not the same as saving the chain, but…”

“You get to build it your way. You’ll have a lot more freedom.”

“Yeah,” Chase said. “It’s a fresh start with a bright future. Kind of like us?”

“I don’t know. You have your store again. You might have to take me to the mattresses.”

“I hope you mean a real mattress, because I’m high on endorphins and horny as—”

“Briar, can you watch the store for a few?”

My teenaged employee laughed. “I think I can manage, yeah.”

“We’re going to…talk about this latest development.”

Briar’s eyes sparkled. “Mm-hmm. I’ll turn up the music.”

We raced up the stairs, opened my apartment door, and flung ourselves at each other before the door had even clicked shut.

Chase kissed me so hard it hurt. His lips crushed mine, his teeth slicing at my bottom lip, and it only served to fuel the inferno burning inside me.

“I never want us to be competitors again,” he gasped when we parted. “Whatever happens with our businesses, you’re the future I want.”

“Me too, but how will we ever decide who tops?” I teased.

He grinned and yanked up my T-shirt, tangling it around my arms and head, then yanked open my jeans and sank to his knees to swallow my cock before I could so much as think.

I gave a strangled moan, caught and exposed and more turned on than I’d ever been in my life.

I untangled the shirt and tossed it aside then looked down at Chase’s lips stretched around my cock while he worked a wet fingertip into my hole, making me crave more.

“Fuck, that feels good,” I muttered.

Chase sat back, pulling away, and I fucking whimpered with need.

“This is how we know who tops,” he said in a husky voice. “You love taking my cock.”

He wasn’t wrong. I’d bottomed a few times and topped a few too, but there was no comparison to the way my body ignited when Chase was inside me.

His dick stretched me, filled me, tested my limits with pain and pleasure, and I fucking loved it.

Not that I would admit it to him.

“Shut up and fuck me.”

He rose to his feet and shoved me down onto the bed, following to pin me down. “I’m not going to fuck you.”

“What?” I exclaimed, my hole aching at the thought of being denied.

“I’m going to make love to you.” He looked into my eyes. “Because you love me. You said so, and you can’t take it back.”

I spluttered a laugh. “I’m not going to take it back.”

“Good.” He kissed me again, but this time it was long and deep. It was still filthy. Chase thrust his tongue in, meeting mine, then retreated, then thrust in again, slowly fucking my mouth. But there was an intensity behind it, not one borne of passion, but a deeper emotion.

He slid his right hand into my hair, gently caressing me. Like I was the greatest treasure.

My chest grew too tight, my love for him almost too much to hold inside me. “Please…”

“What is it, babe?”

I squirmed beneath him, unable to put my feelings into words. The fabric of his slacks rubbed against my raging hard-on, bringing my focus back to the physical. I gasped against his lips. “I need you in me. Now.”

He groaned against my mouth. “Fuck yes.”

His hips jerked against me, giving away his own need, before he pulled away to throw off his clothes. I stripped my shoes and jeans the rest of the way off while watching Chase unbutton his dress shirt, baring his chest inch by inch. It was a distracting tease that sidetracked me.

He slipped the fabric from his shoulders, his pecs flexing, and dropped his hands to unfasten his belt. I licked my lips as I watched him unzip himself.

He kicked off his shoes, dropped his pants, and shoved down his black briefs. His cock swung forward, looking too big for those tiny briefs to have contained.

Too big to fit inside me, too.

But somehow it would. I’d stretch around him, just like the fabric of his briefs, and try to contain him for as long as he’d allow me.

Chase cleared his throat, and I dragged my eyes up to his smirk. “Did you forget something?”

He nodded to my briefs, still on my body.

“Oops.” I shoved my boxer briefs down, wiggling my hips, and Chase helped drag them down my legs. “Sorry.”

“Don’t apologize for appreciating my dick,” he said with a grin. “I’m really glad you do.”

There was a layer of subtext to his words. Chase hadn’t known the first time he met ShopGuy if I would want a man. I hadn’t really known either, though I’d been open to the idea.

But there was no doubting it now. I spread my legs and pulled him against me. “Love you in me, on top of me, around me. Any which way, Chase.”

His eyes grew warm as he looked down at me. “I love you. So much. I love how you believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself.”

“Seems only fair. You always believed in us, no matter how stubborn I got.”

“Damn, that’s sweet.”

“Yeah, well, I’m out of my head with lust.” I squeezed my thighs around his hips. “Does this making love thing involve putting your dick into me anytime soon? I’m dying here.”

“Challenge accepted,” he said with a chuckle and sat back to reach for the lube.

Prepping me didn’t take long. Not now that my ass was better trained for a dicking down. After a couple minutes of fingering, Chase lined up his cock.

“Ready?”

“I’ve been ready for a lo—” He shoved his dick inside, not holding back. “Fuck!”

As always, the entry burned. The pain fed the flames of my arousal, though, rather than diminishing it. I tilted my hips up to take more of him, and Chase continued on, stretching and filling me just as I’d craved. The intensity of it was almost too much, but when he pulled back, I felt the loss. His next thrust in tore a groan of relief from me, and the next one, pure pleasure.

“There you go,” Chase murmured between thrusts. “My little cockslut.”

“Fuck me harder,” I ordered, shameless in my need now that I’d adjusted to the intrusion. “I need more.”

“Damn, okay.” He moved faster, thrust harder, but it still wasn’t enough.

I reached for my cock, but he caught my wrist. “Wait. Just wait.”

To my horror, he pulled all the way out, leaving me empty. That’s not what I wanted. Not at all.

Chase kissed the protest from my lips, then grabbed my waist and flipped me onto my front. He lifted my hips, and I scrambled to get my knees under me.

I started to rise up on my arms too, but Chase grabbed the back of my neck and shoved me down. His cock entered my hole fast and hard, making me gasp in shock.

He went deeper in this position, ramming my prostate.

I wailed with pleasure, hoping for once that there were no customers in my store and Briar had turned the music up really fucking loud.

“How’s this?” Chase punched his cock into me again and again, giving it to me so hard I was scooting up the bed.

I groaned as he ground against my prostate, swiveling his hips, before drawing back and thrusting hard again.

“So good,” I slurred into the pillow.

“You’re gonna come like this,” he said with a commanding tone that made a shiver dance down my spine. “No touching your cock.”

“Wh-what? I can’t…”

“You can.”

He shoved my hips just down enough that my cock tip dragged across the sheets with the movement of our bodies. It was a terrible tease, but combined with the pounding to my prostate I was on the edge in seconds.

“Chase!” I gasped.

He groaned, his hips losing rhythm. “You feel so good. I gotta come.”

I shoved my ass back against him, even though it meant giving up stimulation to my cock. But I didn’t need it. He bit down on my shoulder, muffing a shout, and that added spark of pain sent me flying.

A wave pulsed through me, and it wasn’t like the other orgasms I’d had before. It felt as if my entire body was coming, rather than just my dick. Cum flowed from my cock as if a tap had been opened, and my muscles contracted.

I shook and trembled, my vision whiting out.

When I blinked to awareness, I was still quivering, my face buried in the pillow, and Chase was beside me with a very satisfied smile. “You doing okay?”

I unstuck my tongue from the roof of my mouth. “Wow.”

“Yeah.” He chuckled, eyes warm. “You just had your first PO.”

“PO?”

“Prostate orgasm.”

“Holy shit. We should celebrate your achievements more often.”

“I was fired up and feeling ten feet tall,” he admitted sheepishly. “I didn’t really mean to fuck you like such a beast, though. I meant for us to make love.” My lips quirked, and he rolled his eyes. “And yes, I know it sounds corny, but I mean it.”

I cupped his cheek. “Chase, it’s all love between us now, right? And trust me, you treated my ass with a lot of love. Tough love, maybe, but holy hell, so much love.”

He laughed, eyes crinkling, before he kissed me. This time gently, softly, with reverence.

“You’re just so fucking perfect, Austin Kelly.”

“So are you,” I said seriously. “Ugh. We’re sappy as fuck.”

“We’ve earned it, don’t you think?”

I smiled, thinking of how far we’d come from our first snarky exchanges and the sweet text messages I thought came from a random stranger.

All my fears over the survival of my store, only to realize there was more than one path forward. All Chase’s fears for his family legacy, only to create a new one.

So much had gone differently than planned.

But I wouldn’t change a thing.