Lust (Saints & Sinners #1)

Chapter 18

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I don’t think I even knew what it meant to be blissed out until I fucked Luke Waters.

I love the way he needs my cock.

That he trusted me with his heavenly ass.

How he let me show him how amazing it could feel to be inside him.

I would’ve thought after finishing I’d be able to let him go, but no, not yet.

He’s still as addicted to my taste and touch as I am to his.

We’re both clinging to these last remnants of the high of the experience, one I’m so grateful for, and not only because of how it helped me get away from all those things that came up before we started going at it like this. Because at the same time, it reminded me that what’s between us is more than the Lust and our desire to quench this unbearable thirst.

We stay clinging to each other for a few more moments before I slide out of him, kissing from his mouth, then to his throat. Luke rolls his head back, allowing himself to revel in everything I have to give him.

“Thank you, Brad.”

“Thank you ,” I whisper—and something bumps my chin. Feels like my necklace. I push it away, but it swings back and hits me in the face.

The hell?

I pry myself away from his warm flesh, and that’s when I see his necklace isn’t flat against his chest, as it should be; the cross is floating over his chin, the necklace as erect as our cocks were during our fuck.

My jaw drops, and as I’m trying to wrap my head around that, I notice the room looks different. No, not the room. The perspective. The ceiling’s lower, the overhanging fan only inches from my head. My gaze shoots to the floor, now several feet beneath us. But while it feels like my legs are supported by something, it’s not the mattress.

“Brad?”

I refocus on Luke, who’s tilting his head toward me. He wears a smirk, his eyes still closed. As he opens his eyes, he looks to me before zeroing in on the cross floating above his chin. His forehead creases, he glances around, and his eyes widen in panic.

“Holy fucking—”

It’s like an invisible trapdoor opens beneath us, and we collapse onto the bed. My knees hit the mattress, but Luke bounces and I crash down on him, our jaws clanging together as the headboard slams against the wall.

“Fuck!” Luke groans as I crush him beneath my weight.

As soon as I regain my senses, I pull off him. “Luke, are you okay?”

Drenched in sweat and his own cum, he grabs at his jaw, where we collided, his face tensing up. He curses again, then chuckles, searching around like he’s trying to figure out what the fuck just happened.

Seeing he’s okay allows me a moment to feel my own tender jaw.

“Did I—Was that—”

We share a smile.

*

“Okay, eager to see this supposed progress,” Seth says with a sigh as he reaches the bottom of the cellar stairs.

After discovering what Luke did when we fucked at the Alpha Alpha Mu Halloween party, we experimented through the weekend. Matteo had texted me that he’d be staying with a girl Halloween night and through the weekend, so we had my dorm room to ourselves. Neither of us is shy about experimenting. We skipped classes on Friday, and I’ve spent most of the weekend with my cock buried inside him. During this time, we fucked and messed around to gauge the extent of Luke’s powers.

I fucked him in my bed. Up against every wall. On my desk. On the window seat. In my closet at one point, maybe because we were running out of places. The dorm showers, twice. Although that last wasn’t testing his powers. That was just good fun.

On Monday, I called a meeting at the old church, and now I’m buzzing with excitement, eager to share our discovery.

“About time you got here,” Cody tells Seth. He sits at the desk, keying away at a game on his phone. “They wouldn’t show me until you got here.”

Seth tosses his bag in the corner.

“It’s weird,” I say, “and I figured we should get through the awkwardness once, rather than dealing with shit from both of you.”

“Awkwardness?” Seth asks, his eyebrows tugging closer together.

“It’s something you’ll have to see,” Luke says, chuckling. He must find this as amusing as I do.

Cody keys on his phone a bit more before setting it down on the desk and rising to his feet. “Okay. Let’s get this show on the road. The sooner we can get him onto the next task, the better.”

“Let’s not rush things until we see for ourselves,” Seth says. “I’m not gonna be happy if you’ve been this cryptic and he can just do a few spins, you know?”

I snicker. “A few spins…yeah.”

Luke glares at me. We said we wouldn’t give them any clues—we wanted this to be a total surprise, but it’s hard to sit on such a big-ass secret around my closest friends, the guys I’ve trusted with some of my darkest secrets since we met last year.

“Let’s do it.” Luke kneels in the center of the pentagram.

As I step behind him, Cody’s and Seth’s expressions are rife with confusion. “Trust me on this,” I say, getting on my knees behind Luke, sliding close so that his ass is tucked against my crotch. Even with my friends watching, I’m stiff as a board.

Luke’s never had an issue with getting me hard, but now that I know what it’s like to be inside him, my cock pulses with desire. I know what it wishes we could do right now, and the best I can do is enjoy the fantasies, assuring myself I’ll be drilling this ass as soon as we’re done with show-and-tell.

Luke watches himself in the mirror as he holds out the necklace, letting it dangle from his finger. He eyes me as I push my chest against his back, hooking my arms around him. I kiss his neck, and Luke tilts his head, inviting me to explore a little more.

I hesitate, only because this isn’t the kind of thing I’d ever normally do in front of Seth and Cody, but I remind myself why we must. I open my mouth and given him a wide, tongue-filled kiss, then a nibble. Despite how strange it is, it’s easy to get lost in his flesh, to lose myself entirely, until I hear Seth say, “Um…this is…”

“Kinda hot,” Cody chimes in.

“That wasn’t what I was thinking.”

I keep up my work, opening my eyes briefly to check the mirror and see the amulet starting to spin in front of Luke. It’s not spinning much, though, so I give him a few more kisses.

“Okay, just stop it, you guys,” Seth says. “Brad, you think I don’t know what you’re doing?” He approaches, standing behind us so I can see him in the mirror. “You can’t trick us into thinking he’s already figured it out, when—”

His necklace pops up from his chest, the cross hitting him square in the forehead.

“The fuck!” Seth exclaims, which makes Luke chuckle. “Did he just—”

I get back to work on Luke’s neck, helping him show the guys what I’ve already discovered he’s capable of.

“Okay, that’s a cute trick,” Seth adds, “but that doesn’t make you some kind of wiz—”

The sound of scraping against the cement floor catches my attention, and I see Seth’s bag drag across it before flying through the air, slamming against the wall, then plummeting to the floor.

“Straight Boy’s showing off,” I whisper before granting a tender kiss as a reward.

Seth opens his mouth to speak, but nothing comes out.

“Holy. Fucking. Hell,” Cody finally manages.

“What was that?” Seth follows.

“That’s what we wanted to show you,” Luke says.

As Luke and I get on our feet, Seth’s still staring at his bag.

“When the hell did you find out he could do that?” he asks.

“At Alpha Alpha Mu’s party last week. We were messing around, and this weird thing happened.”

“And you waited through the weekend to tell us this?”

“We figured it was something I did,” Luke says, “but we weren’t sure if I could control it.”

“So something about your chemistry together lets him use his powers,” Cody says, his gaze narrowing as he considers this.

“Yeah, and it’s stronger when I’m—” I stop myself.

“What?” Seth asks.

“That’s very thoughtful of you,” Luke says, clearly appreciating my attempt at discretion. “It’s stronger when we’re fucking. Technically, when he’s inside me. But as you can see, even if we just fool around, I can still do more than anything I could have imagined.”

“You seem to have a lot of control over it,” Seth says.

“It took a lot to do that with the bag.”

“It takes us a lot just to play around with our necklaces,” I say.

“If you have access to this much power already,” Cody says, “that’s a good sign.”

“It suggests he’ll be able to manage it at some point,” is as much as Seth concedes, but I can tell by Cody’s wandering gaze that his thoughts are elsewhere.

“So you can do more than just what you showed us?” Cody asks.

“The night we figured it out, we were levitating,” Luke says. “Brad’s head was so close to the ceiling fan, I’m surprised it didn’t clip him.”

“But since then,” I add, “we’ve tried, and he can levitate us consciously while we do stuff.”

Cody’s lips twist up as he considers this. “Can you do any of it when you’re not messing around with Brad?”

Luke shakes his head. “I can’t do what you just saw, but I can do some things.”

“So you can only use all this power when you’re fucking?” Cody asks Luke.

“That’s how it seems so far.”

Seth looks at Cody, who’s pressing his lips together, his gaze narrow.

“What are you thinking?” Seth asks.

“If he has this much control while they’re messing around, maybe if I tried to give him the vision again, he’d have more control in there too.”

Seth cringes. “How would you even do that? Are you gonna like, lie on top of Luke while Brad fucks him?”

Cody’s lips twist up, and he seems to actually be considering this, so I shut it down. “Not gonna happen.”

“Cody, why are you even thinking of that?” Seth asks.

“If he can control it,” Cody says, “he can get more information. He might even be able to find out where the Slasher’s at.”

“Again, you’re not lying on top of Luke while I’m inside him,” I say, “if that’s what you’re suggesting.”

Cody rolls his eyes. “Will everyone stop making it sound like I’m trying to instigate a threesome? If Luke has this power and can focus it while he’s under, then if we can find a way to get the vision to him, you know what that means he’ll be able to do.”

It’s a fair point, one I don’t like but have to consider.

“No,” Seth snaps. “He’s only known he can do this for a few days. It’s way too soon to be talking about something like this.”

“I’m not saying they need to strip down and get to it,” Cody says, “but you know I’m right.”

“It’s too soon.”

“For a conversation?”

Seth huffs.

Cody presses, “If Luke can manage this kind of control while he’s under without the consequences I experience—”

“He kicked you out, which we didn’t know was going to happen, and that was before he’d tapped into all this power.”

“People’s lives are at stake here, Seth.”

“Exactly! Who the hell knows what might happen if you do this too soon? He could fucking kill you. Hell, if Brad’s fucking him, then he could kill both of you, and then it’s just me and the guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing. What am I going to do? Push on the monster to stop and go back into the Rift? No. I let you guys rush that shit before, and look where it got us.”

He’s not wrong.

The room quiets.

Cody bites his bottom lip. “I know it sucks, but we can’t sit around and do nothing because it’s dangerous.”

Seth’s gaze wavers. “I get that, and I’m assuming he can breeze through the first three tasks now without issue.” He looks to me, and I nod, having already tested them during our fuck-fest over the weekend. “So he needs to have the Moment.”

Cody eyes me, and I figure we’re thinking the same thing even before he says, “That took me months. And you guys even longer.”

“Wait. What’s a moment?” Luke asks.

“Not a moment. The Moment,” I explain. “Remember when I told you about the way we’re in sync with the Rift? We each remember that distinct moment when it happened. Think of it as an epiphany. It’s like you suddenly have another sense. It’s hard to explain beyond that, except to say you’ll know when it happens.”

Luke’s narrowed eyes suggest he doesn’t really get it, which I understand, since I doubt any of us would have before it happened.

“Cody couldn’t navigate his visions until then,” Seth explains. Seems like the first time he’s talked to Luke without being a total ass to him. He turns his attention to Cody. “Once he has the Moment, we’ll know he can at least do that, and then maybe it’s worth the risk.”

Now I’m getting pissed. “Are you even going to ask us how we feel about it?”

Seth and Cody seem taken aback.

“As I mentioned before, Cody, you’re not gonna sit on Luke’s face while we’re doing that.”

“No, that would be too dangerous,” Cody says, clearly missing the point. “What if because he’s so strong, I won’t have to touch him like I do with you guys? What if I did it from here, on the pentagram, like that day after the pickup game? I mean, he could blow me away from the dorm showers, so it might be enough to give him the vision.”

“Worth a try.” That’s an experiment I’m far more comfortable with than Cody trying to sit in on one of our fuck sessions.

Seth’s jaw tenses. He’s not sold, and I don’t blame him. This is dangerous. And it’d be foolish to jump the gun. But given the stakes, can we simply sit around and do nothing when people’s lives are at risk?

“It’s definitely the safest way to go about it,” Seth concedes. “And I’ll feel better once I know he’s had his Moment. It’ll convince me he has some control over this.”

“Yeah…” Cody drags out. “But we need a backup plan, in case it doesn’t happen in say, the next week or so.”

“What do you mean?” I ask.

“The vision suggests someone will be dead by the week of the twenty-first. We don’t have a lot of time. And considering the first vision changed…” He trails off, clearly unwilling to state what we already know—that someone could die at any moment.

“We can burn that bridge later,” Seth says. “Right now, let’s show Luke how to perform the ritual to connect to the Rift. And hope for the best.”

Hardly anything in the way of a plan, but it’s something.

Luke’s quiet, his expression tense. This is a lot of pressure on him.

“How do you feel, Luke?” I ask, since he should get a say in all this.

“What choice do we have, right?”

Fuck.

This must’ve been a lot to hear, but I have to believe, given everything we’ve already seen he’s capable of, that the Moment will come easier to him than it did any of us.

At least, I have to hope.