Chapter 38

“Craig,”Andy sighed.He knew his nephew was just teasing,but this was getting old.“I havecopies of all the photos of when you were a kid.I’m sure Luke,Dennis or whoever would love to see pictures of you dressed as a shepherd during your first nativity play.”

“You wouldn’t!”

Andy pulled away from Luke and stared at his nephew.“You don’t want to take that risk,believe me.”

“Uncle Andy.”

Andy stood and offered a hand to Luke.Turning back to Craig,he said,“I’m warning you now.I’m being serious.What Luke and I do is private.No one better hear a word of it.”Andy used his best soldier voice;he’d been able to command fear and respect from even the greenest of recruits.Judging by Craig’s face,the message had been received and understood.

Leading Luke into the bedroom,Andy closed the door softly but firmly and turned to face his man.

“God,I love it when you go all dominant,”Luke said,getting onto the bed and arranging himself.

Andy couldn’t stay stern-faced,not with Luke looking as sexy as he was.“He had it coming.”

“He’s young.”

“Enough about Craig.”Andy wanted to concentrate on touching,kissing,tasting and generally loving his Luke.His hand hovered over the light switch.On the one hand he wanted to see his boyfriend and his reactions,but on the other,Luke wouldn’t want to be reminded that someone as scarred up as himself was loving him.So he flicked the light off.

“Why’d you turn it off?”

Andy was going to make something up,but at the last second told the truth.

Luke got up from the bed,walked over to the wall and flicked on the light.“We’re not having that discussion again,”he said,hands on hips.

“Sorry.I know what you said and I believe it,but…well,I won’t ever get used to the differences in our appearances.“

“Will you ever get used to how it doesn’t matter?”

“I’ll try,”Andy ducked his head.

“Thanks.”Luke kissed him before getting back on the bed.In a soft voice,laced with seduction,which had Andy stiffening in his shorts,Luke said,“Want to unwrap me?”

Andy swallowed.Did he ever!Part of him wanted to pounce on the bed and rip the sexy-as-sin pyjamas from Luke,but the better—more clearly-thinking—part of his brain knew he had to take things more slowly.And slow can be good,too,his inner voice told him.

Andy undid a couple of the buttons on the pyjama top,revealing soft,smooth skin that didn’t so much as have a blemish on it.Outwardly Luke had completely healed from his attack.When Andy had first met him,the younger man had had quite a deep tan.This had faded considerably.Andy,if he was honest,preferred the paler look.It seemed more natural.

With his fingertips,Andy explored all of Luke’s torso,even the parts hidden by black silk.He was determined to take his time unwrapping his prize.

Soon two more buttons were undone,laying bare more of Luke’s beauty.The man didn’t have bulky muscles,but it was easy to see that he worked out and kept in shape;his forced inactivity of the past couple of months had resulted in a certain softening of Luke’s physique.Though Andy would never tell him,he hoped Luke would go back to exercising as soon as the doctors allowed it.

“We’ll be here all night at this rate,”Luke grumbled.

“And that would be a problem,how?”Andy smiled at his lover before swooping down to take a kiss.

“Problem,no,there’s no problem,”Luke said,once they’d disengaged.

“Didn’t think there was.”But just to placate his lover,Andy unbuttoned the rest of the tunic and smoothed back the flaps to show Luke in all his magnificence.“God,”he whispered.

Andy needed to taste those small pointed nipples.Judging by Luke’s groans,he appreciated the attention.So much so that he brought his hands up and started to touch Andy in return.

“No,”Andy stood up and waved a finger.“Just as what happened at the toilets was supposed to be all about me,this is just for you.”He leaned in and took another kiss.“So sexy when you pout.”

“Humph.”

Though Andy didn’t time himself,he must have spent at least ten minutes learning,or re-learning,Luke’s upper body,before he even thought about going below the waistline for the main prize.Finally though,he couldn’t wait any longer.He knew,from the many baths he’d given Luke,what to expect as far as touch was concerned.But that night Andy was going toget to taste for the first time.He salivated as he began to unbutton the pyjama pants.

“Not fair.You get to see me naked,but you’re still fully dressed.”

His body was nothing to look at,scarred and hairy as it was.“Like I said,this is all about you.”

“If that’s true,then get your kit off.I want to see all those gorgeous muscles.”

Reluctantly he undressed.Anything Luke wanted,Andy would give him.He wondered if Luke had realised that yet.

“Happy now?”Andy grumbled,pulling his left sock off his foot.

“Yes.Though you need some pointers on how to do a sexy strip-tease.But we’ll save that for another time.”

“Cheeky sod.”Andy got on the bed and climbed over Luke,careful to put most of his weight on his arms and knees.“And why would I need lessons on how to take my clothes off?”he growled into Luke’s ear.

“Because.”Luke ignored his lover’s earlier warning and ran his hands up and down Andy’s trunk,making him shudder.“I want to see you show off this sexy body.And I know you’ll agreeto do it,just because I want it.”

Can he read my mind?Andy asked himself.“But,now it’s time for the main event.”He laid a deep kiss complete with plenty of tongue on Luke.“You sure you’re really up for this?If your ribs—”

“I’ll fucking explode if you don’t get on with it.”

Andy grinned wickedly.“Well,in that case.”

“Bastard.”

Andy smiled,but knew he couldn’t put things off much longer,for his own sake more than anything else.Slowly he laid a trail of kisses along Luke’s boyish face.Yes,it was filling out,and in Andy’s opinion,becoming even more perfect.Then the kissing moved to Luke’s throat.When his Adam’s apple bobbed,Andy gently bit at it,causing Luke to groan.The vibrations felt great.Andy spent a long time lapping at the hollows in Luke’s throat and collar bone.

Onward and downward went Andy’s questing lips.Over the flat planes of Luke’s chest,then hissmooth abdomen with only the slightest dusting of pale blond hair.Andy spent a couple of minutes licking at the crease created by the joining of leg to trunk.

“Please,Andy,”Luke whimpered.“Need you.”

Luke’s dick was parallel to the horizontal.Andy distracted himself from thoughts of geometryby kissing the tip of Luke’s sex,tasting a pearly drop of pre-cum that had just emerged.“Nectar.”

Luke laughed.Andy rose up to find out what was so funny.

“To borrow a phrase from you,”Luke smiled up at him,“Piss off.”

Andy couldn’t help laughing,too.It had been a corny line;he shouldn’t have said it,even if it was true.

He didn’t know how long he spent loving Luke’s cock.He was neither too big,or too thick.Just right,in fact.He could deep throat him without too much effort,something of which Andy was secretly proud.He tried to remember some of the things Luke had done to him that he’d particularly liked.But judging from the moans and the thrashing about,he couldn’t have been doing too bad a job.

Finally—and,none too soon,if the ache in Andy’s jaw was any indication—Luke’s balls rose in their sac.Luke warned him that he was close,but no way was Andy not going to taste him.Lukearched off the bed and literally screamed.Andy tried to pull off,concerned that Luke was hurt,but Andy felt Luke clamp his hands on his head,preventing him from pulling off.

Someone,probably Luke’s curmudgeonly old neighbour from upstairs,started hammering on the ceiling,but Andy didn’t care about him.His only concern was Luke.Was he hurt?His ribs weren’t fully healed,they shouldn’t have done this,Andy should have waited,he could…

Once Luke let go of him,Andy climbed over his panting lover,again being careful not to crush him with his weight.“You all right?”

Luke’s eyes were unfocussed.It took a few seconds of blinking before he seemed to realise Andy was there.“Give me a minute.”

Andy waited,none too patiently.He knew it had been too soon.Though Luke had tried to hide hispain when he’d knelt on the toilet floor,Andy had seen him wince.