Chapter 14 #2
The rest of their clothes vanished between kisses and gasps.
Viper’s hands were on his chest, his sides, his hips.
He moved like he was unraveling him on purpose, like he knew every place to touch and every place to kiss that would leave him wrecked.
The scent of earth and spice still clung to their skin from the rite, but now it was mingled with sweat and something new—something only and uniquely theirs.
Ward felt the weight of Viper settling against his chest, most of his weight braced on his elbows. He widened his legs, making room for Viper’s hips to settle between them, and whined a low sound as their cocks slid over each other.
Viper exhaled harshly when his hands worked their way up his back, digging into muscles, stroking, teasing, and hitting a ticklish spot that made him jump, and Ward snickered. “The big bad SEAL is ticklish?”
“If you ever tell anyone, I’ll murder you in your sleep.”
“Your secret is safe with me.” He ran his fingertips down Viper’s cheek and his thumb over his bottom lip, inhaling sharply when Viper sucked it into his mouth. His hand moved across his collarbone and wrapped around his neck before he gently fisted the hair at the back of Viper’s head.
“Mmh. I love your fingers in my hair.”
Ward felt the vibration of the moan in his chest and sighed in response. “Ahh.” He arched upward as Viper bit down on one of his nipples before licking the sting away. “Viper…”
“Kelvin.” Viper’s hands dragged down his sides to grip his ass and pull him tight against his cock. “My real name is Kelvin. Only you get to call me that.”
Jesus, what a rush.
Fuck.
The slide of skin on skin.
Fucking delicious.
But he wasn’t about to be passive, to allow this just to happen; he wanted to taste and lick and savor every damn second of this first time between them. “Kelvin.”
“I’m here, I swear.” Viper ran his hand across his stomach, his thumb grazing the top of his cock. His swollen, rock-hard cock. He scooted back on his knees until he was on the edge of the bed and Ward’s dick was inches from his lips. “That’s a damn sexy cock, mate.”
“Huh-uh?” How did one respond to a comment like that?
Because his brain wasn’t working enough to figure out what he should say.
“Oh.” Every thought in his head scattered as Viper licked the tip of his cock before sucking it into his mouth and sliding deep until he reached his balls.
“Mmh,” Ward moaned and sucked his lip into his mouth, sinking his teeth into it.
His cock jumped as Viper worshiped it with his tongue.
He didn’t think it could happen, but he hardened even more and got wetter and slicker each time Viper stroked the length of his dick with his tongue.
“Are you trying to kill me?” The warm, wet heat and sensational feeling of Viper’s tongue pressed against the underside of his dick dragged a moan out of him. “Please.”
“One sec. I’ll be back.”
“What?”
Is he for real right now?
He has to go somewhere now?
Now?
I’m going to kill him.
“I’m just grabbing lube from my bag.” Viper’s chuckle sent a shiver down his spine and it took him a moment for the full impact of his words to make sense.
Ward ignored the itching in the mate bond as it protested the distance between them. “Why do you have lube with you here?”
“Because lube is awesome for oiling shit if I need to get my hand in tight spaces.”
“Your hand isn’t going in any of my—um—tight spaces.” He winced at the thought. “We aren’t at that stage of our relationship. We aren’t even close.”
Viper barked a laugh. “It’s for my dick, not my hand, I promise.” He paused, then added, “Well, maybe a finger or two to ease the way.”
Ward stroked his hand over his erection as he lifted his shoulders off the bed to watch Viper. He was already leaking; he could feel the sticky dampness on his dick. His balls ached, and he didn’t need to have any brain power left to know he’d never been so hard in his life.
“Roll over for me.” Viper kissed his lips. “We can see where this takes us and go from there.” He helped him get comfortable, then pressed an open-mouthed kiss to his spine and pressed kisses to the top of his ass.
Ward moaned softly when Viper moved his cheeks apart and swiped his tongue over his hole before he flattened his tongue, dragging it from the base of his balls to the tip of his spine. “Jesus, Kelvin.”
Viper moaned in response and circled his opening with the tip of his tongue. Ward shamelessly pushed back into him with a groan. He winced at the ache as Viper used his thumbs, but sighed in relief at the pressure he craved.
“I fucking love those noises,” Viper praised.
“They make my cock ache so bad.” He circled Ward’s hole with his tongue and growled when it opened for him.
“Easy, now.” He dripped lube down the crack of his ass before sliding a finger inside, dragging a filthy moan from him that made Ward rock backward into his hand.
“Fuck, yes, more.”
“Fuck, that’s hot.”
“Yeah, love that,” he whispered hoarsely, rocking back against Viper. “Love that, Kelvin.”
“Ready?”
“Fuck, yes.” Ward widened his hips and looked over his shoulder at Viper.
“You say I’m hot, you should see the view I’m looking at right now, because dayum.
” He didn’t think there would ever be anything as mind-blowingly sexy as Kelvin *Viper* Dare rolling a condom down his dick.
“Oh fuck,” Ward hissed when Viper pushed into him.
He bit down and forced himself to relax enough for his ass to take Viper’s cock all the way to the hilt.
Viper’s fingers tightened almost painfully on his hips.
“Ahhh.” Ward sighed and arched his neck as Viper snapped his hips forward. “Kel—Kelvin.”
“Yeah, baby?” Viper wrapped his hands around his chest, lifted his shoulders off the bed, and brought Ward to his knees.
“Oh fuck.” He whimpered as he settled in Viper’s lap, his head dropping back on his shoulder.
“Jesus, this feels fucking awesome,” Viper murmured against his ear. He ran his hands down Ward’s arms and linked their fingers together.
“Oh God.” Ward ground down on Viper’s lap, taking him deeper.
“You’re killing me.”
Ward groaned as he lifted up slightly and pushed himself back down. “Don’t let go.”
“Never. You’re mine now.” One hand wrapped around his waist, holding him in place. The other pinched and pulled at first one nipple and then the other.
It took a few minutes until they found a rhythm that drove them both to the brink of insanity. “Please,” Ward whispered. “Harder. Please. Fuck. More.”
“Kiss me.”
“Yes.” He turned his head and pressed their mouths together. Viper whimpered against his lips as the kiss became hot, wet, and sloppy when he shifted on his mate’s lap, adjusting the angle of his dick in his ass. “Right there. Christ, Kelvin, like that, yes. Just. Like. That.”
“Fucking love this.” Viper slid his palm down Ward’s stomach and wrapped his hand around his dick, giving a firm pull, quick and hard. He slid his palm over the long, thick, veined shaft, squeezing the head and twisting his wrist. “Are you close? You going to come for me?”
“Fuck yes, mate.” He gasped. His fingers tightened around Viper’s. “I need… more. Don’t stop.”
“Not stopping.”
The mate mark across his arm pulsed like molten silver, curling in intricate patterns all the way to his shoulder. But more than that… the light didn’t stop there. It bloomed across his ribs in delicate lines of ancient script, tendrils of luminous ink that hadn’t been there before.
His breath caught. “Oh, fuck.”
Viper’s thumb brushed over one of the glowing lines. “These weren’t here before.”
“No.” Ward clenched his ass hard and rocked his hips. “They weren’t.”
They moved together, slower and deeper, as Viper’s mouth found his, anchoring him when the hum of power swelled too strong beneath his ribs.
“I don’t know what’s happening,” Ward whispered into the kiss. “But it’s like I can feel everything.”
Viper banded one arm across his chest, holding him tight against him as he kissed him again, deep and long and grounding. “Then feel it with me. Give me everything.”
Their bodies rocked together in a rhythm as old as time, a language that required no words. Ward let go. He gave himself over to the moment, to the man wrapped around him and to the bond between them, until he wasn’t sure where he ended and Viper began.
A flare of light burst from their joined marks, sending pulses through the room like a heartbeat. Viper buried his face in the crook of Ward’s neck with a low groan.
“Jesus, Ward.”
“I know,” Ward gasped. “I know.”
They shattered together. The bond roared like a river breaking its banks, sweeping them both away. When it was over, they didn’t move. Viper’s breath was warm against his skin, his hands still trembling faintly where they rested against his sides.
Ward leaned his head back on Viper’s shoulder, kissed his cheek, and whispered, “Still think we can go back to pretending this is all some magical accident?”
Viper chuckled softly, but there was no humor in it. “No. Fuck no. Not after that.”
Ward winced as Viper eased him off his lap.
He didn’t have the energy to object when Viper moved off the bed and returned a few minutes later to clean him up.
When he was done, they lay in silence for a while, tangled in each other, the magic slowly dimming until only the marks on their skin remained, glowing faintly like blue embers as they completed their journey.
“Juice told me there were some words I should say to make this mating real. In this world, at least.”
“Mmh?”
“I’m trying to remember how the vow went.
” He squeezed his eyes shut as if he were trying to remember the words.
They popped open and widened, as if someone whispered it into his mind and he knew exactly what to say.
“May the old gods be with us and give us blessings. May we see our children’s children.
May the wind be always at our backs, may the warm rays of the sun fall upon our home.
May love and laughter light our days, and warm our hearts and home.
May our mornings bring joy, and our evenings bring peace.
From this day to our last, I am yours and you are mine. ”
“That’s beautiful.” Ward half closed his eyes, listening to the steady thump of Viper’s heart. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of blue and pulled back to look. “Wow.”
“Hmm, what’s wow?” Viper’s eyes were closed.
“I—” His voice cracked. “It’s done.”
“What’s done?”
“I think the mating marks are complete.” His fingers traced over the blue design centered above Viper’s heart.
A Celtic knotwork circle, banded by intertwined lines of silver and midnight blue.
In the center sat two crossed battle axes, and beneath them, arcing like a sunburst, was a row of flames. “It’s so beautiful.”
Viper brushed the hair from Ward’s damp forehead and kissed him softly. “Yours is too.”
Ward smiled slowly as he drifted off to sleep. They had the mating marks, they had each other, and they would have forever if they could figure out what was hunting them from beyond the veil.