STORY EXCERPT

It was dark out now. Andrew had another long day of eating terrible instant noodles and working for too many hours, but he felt pretty good about himself as he touched up on some more details.

Lying in bed, Andrew was still working on his character’s pixel art when Mattias walked in.

Andrew sat up, setting aside his tablet as he immediately felt that hyperaware sensation come over him that was there every time Mattias came into the room.

Andrew no longer had to fight against the urge to rip the man’s clothes off in public and sink his mouth down on Mattias’ cock, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t still super focused on him whenever he was there.

“Hey,” Mattias said, the tone of his voice suggesting he wasn’t entirely in the mood for snuggles and kissing.

Now Andrew was hyperaware for a whole other reason. “Is everything okay? Did you find something?”

The idea of there being another dead animal out there gutted him.

“No, nothing like that.” Mattias peeled off his jacket. He removed his holster and set it aside on the dresser that had since become his since the mating had happened.

“It was actually another boring, quiet day. Your brother went for a drive with Jeffrey. Nothing happened.”

“Wait, Jason left?”

That was something Andrew definitely wanted to be kept in the loop about, especially if there was someone out there killing animals just to scare him.

“He just went to the coffee shop, grabbed some insane, frothy looking drink I’d never even heard of before, and then he came back. I think he just needed some air.”

“Oh.” Andrew settled a little, but it unnerved him that he’d gone the whole day without realizing that his brother had left.

“So, everything was all right?”

Mattias rubbed the back of his neck. He shoved himself out of his pants, leaving only the tightly fitting boxer briefs that accentuated how good his ass and thighs looked.

God, Andrew was so shallow, but how could he not be when the view was this amazing?

“I guess he and Brian had some words.”

Shit. That snapped him out of it pretty quickly. “Like…what kind of words? Did…either of them say anything to each other?”

Andrew might have been hoping that there was something there between them, but his hopes and reality didn’t always line up.

Regardless, he didn’t like the idea of them fighting.

And the way Mattias kept hesitating before speaking what was on his mind was starting to get to him, too.

“Could you please spit it out? I promise I won’t go to Jason and repeat anything.”

“It’s not entirely that that I’m worried about. Look, if it’s over something to do with the security of the house, you, or your brother, I will always tell you, but this might be a little more…personal.”

Andrew stared hard at his mate. “If you’re trying to make me less interested in what’s going on, then you’re failing. Miserably.”

“Am I?” Mattias smiled at him in a way that Andrew was starting to recognize, and for the first time since they’d gotten together, Andrew’s defenses went up, instead of getting shut down.

“Oh no. No, no, no. You’re not doing that.”

ADULT EXCERPT

With the first initial thrust, there was some resistance. There always was, but Andrew’s body opened for him, accepting him quickly.

Instinctually.

Mattias groaned as he sank inch by glorious inch. Andrew took all of him in, his hole still stretched tightly around Mattias’ cock.

It didn’t matter how many times they did this, Mattias always felt so good. His body clenching perfectly around Mattias.

They were both starting to get used to each other. Weeks’ worth of sex multiple times a day would do that, but the heat and sweetness of it was still there, even if the intensity of the feeling had diminished somewhat.

Mattias held his hands to Andrew’s waist as he began rocking back and forth, watching as his cock vanished again and again inside Andrew’s body.

Andrew moaned softly. They’d already fucked once today, so it felt as though they had a little more time to play before both of them popped, so to speak.

When Andrew looked back at him, pushing his hips back, fucking himself on Mattias’ cock, that was the thing that nearly threw him prematurely over the edge.

“That’s it,” Mattias said, stopping the motion of his hips for a moment. “Keep doing that.”

Mattias held still, biting down on a groan as Andrew took the lead, pushing back, clenching his pucker around Mattias’ shaft.

So good. Mattias found himself gripping a little tighter to his mate’s waist, but it was exactly what he wanted, what he needed.

What they both needed.

Andrew gasped for breath, panting and trembling as he moved, circling his ass and…

Mattias had to hold tightly to his waist, stopping Andrew from moving.

“One second. Give me a second,” Mattias said.

“What’s wrong?” Andrew looked back, his soft brown eyes clouded, cheeks and lips flush with pink color.

He looked so damned good. Mattias didn’t understand how Andrew could look at himself and not see what a specimen he really was.

He was the most handsome, beautiful male Mattias could behold. He wished he could tell Andrew that and have his mate believe him.

Andrew never believed him. Even as Mattias leaned in, his chest pressing against Andrew’s back, kissing him softly on the mouth, Mattias told Andrew again and again how much he adored him, how handsome he looked.

Andrew smiled back at him, but the bashful expression on his face betrayed his thoughts.

He didn’t believe it. He compared himself too much with Mattias.

Mattias didn’t know how he was supposed to make him believe it, other than to make love to him sweetly, kissing and stroking his body as though there was nothing else in the world he would rather have his hands and mouth on.

Mattias pulled Andrew up into his lap, making Andrew sit there while Mattias still fucked into him.

Andrew never said it out loud, but he loved this position. Mattias knew it by the noises he made, and how much he smiled whenever Mattias put him into it.

He had to admit, he enjoyed having Andrew in his lap like this. It felt as though he was hugging his mate from behind while making love to him.

Soon, their soft moans and grunts turned into something harder, faster, and much more desperate as Andrew worked his thighs hard, clenching his asshole around Mattias’ dick in a telltale sign that he was nearing the edge.

Mattias growled. The wolf approved.

It was time. He needed to come. He wanted to come inside his mate, but fuck, he was still wearing the condom.