Chapter 17 Amadeo
SEVENTEEN
amadeo
Three days into unraveling and rebuilding the family business, I’ve finally got a handle on the backlog of paperwork. We’ve got a plan for filing going forward, and I’ve finished reviewing the last few years of tax returns. The verdict? Not pretty.
The door to the office opens and my mom enters, carrying a basket and a tray with her. “Morning, boys and theys.”
Balt looks up from the laptop and smiles warmly. What a huge help he’s been, going over his findings every afternoon and teaching me what I need to know to understand our finances and accounting practices for when he’s gone.
“Good morning,” Balt says. “It’s a cold one today.”
Mom nods. “And getting colder. More snow in the forecast too. At least your commute to work is easy.”
“Preach,” Brogan says, tucking their hair behind their ear. “I smell something good.”
Mom, smiling, walks over to the desk where Balt is working and sets her tray down. “I made blueberry muffins and hot chocolate. Come eat. They’re still warm.”
“Oh my god, yes,” Brogan says, rising from the floor where they were stacking files. “I love your blueberry muffins.”
“Thanks, Mom. They smell good,” I say.
She smiles, but her eyes are trained on Balt. “You’ll have some?”
He nods. “Definitely.”
“I was worried when we first saw you that you didn’t eat much. You’re a little skinny.”
“Mom,” I complain, already munching on a muffin.
“You too. That city drained you. You need some meat on your bones.”
“My weight is perfectly acceptable and Balt is a god among men, so settle down, huh?”
She laughs. “A god among men, huh?”
Balt shakes his head, focusing his attention on the basket of goodies. “Thank you for breakfast.”
“And such a gentleman,” Mom says. “How’s it going in here?”
“We’re making progress.” I glance at Balt. “Lots of it, right?”
Balt nods. “I’ve got the year-to-date numbers sorted and identified the best program to use. The next few weeks will be focused on getting the information loaded and then working on an operating budget.”
“And Brogan and I have a good plan of attack to get the most important files digitized,” I add.
Mom nods, glancing around the office, but as I study her face, I notice her eyes tearing up.
“What’s wrong, Mom?”
“Nothing.” She clears her throat, forcing a smile to her face. “I’m happy you’re here and that there’s a chance to see the business thrive again. It was looking pretty dismal for a while.”
“Well, we’re not out of the woods yet, unfortunately. There’s a lot to figure out.”
“I know, but it’s nice to see it being worked on.” Her phone beeps and she scrunches her nose. “Oh, dear. It’s time to leave for Nonna’s appointment.”
“Need help?” Brogan asks.
“I don’t want to pull you away.”
“Family first,” Brogan says, shoving the last bit of muffin in their mouth. “I’m happy to do it. Be back in a few hours, cousin.”
I nod, sitting perched on the edge of the desk as I finish my muffin. “We’ll be here.” My mom and Brogan leave together, and I pour myself some hot chocolate. “Do you want some?” I ask Balt.
“Please.”
I pour some into a mug and hand it to him. “Seriously, thank you again for everything you’re doing to help.”
“It’s my pleasure.” He blows on his drink and then takes a sip. “It’s given me something good to focus on.”
Sipping my drink, I study his face. He’s been easy to live with and fits in with my family nicely too. It’s weird. Good, but weird.
“Maybe I won’t fall asleep on you tonight after dinner.”
Balt chuckles. “I don’t expect that from you, you know? It’s a perk, but it’s not expected.”
“I know. I want to, but I underestimated how draining learning something new is.”
“It’s why I let you sleep and didn’t take advantage.” Balt sets his mug down. “We’re alone now.”
“We are, yeah.”
“Any chance of your dad or uncle stopping by unannounced?”
A smile tugs at my lips as I realize where he’s going with this. “Always a chance, but unlikely.”
“Hmm.” He reaches out and uses my belt loop to tug me closer so that I’m standing between his spread legs. “You know something I like about you?”
“What?”
“How good you smell. All the time.”
“Really? I’m not wearing cologne or anything.”
“I know. It’s your natural scent.” He presses his face to my belly and inhales before he tugs my shirt up and kisses my bare skin.
I tangle my fingers in his silky hair. “That’s very sweet.”
“It’s true.” He drags his tongue around my belly button. “I almost did it last night. Woke you up with my tongue in your ass.”
A tendril of heat snakes through me. “Why didn’t you?”
“You needed to sleep.” Balt tilts his head back to look up at me. “You looked so peaceful, so I just watched you.”
The idea of a man like Balt watching me sleep is… sexy as fuck.
“Do you think I’m a creep now?”
I shake my head. “Just the opposite.” I squeeze his shoulders. “I like knowing that.”
“Because now you know how alluring you are? How sexy? How… tempting?”
“If that’s what you think.”
“It is.” Balt slides his hands to my waist, deftly flicking open the button on my slacks. “Do you want me to stop?”
“Nope. I already told you, I want you to do whatever you want to me. Anytime.”
A sexy smirk dances on his lips. “Excellent news.”
Balt finishes working on my zipper then lets my slacks slide down my body. While he leans in and presses his face to my briefs, I unbutton my shirt with shaky fingers.
Balt nibbles at my swelling cock. “Has anyone ever dressed you up?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean…” He rubs his hand over my bulge as he lifts his smoldering gaze to my face. “Put you in pretty things. Lace and silk. Jocks.”
I shake my head as his meaning sinks in. “Like pretty panties and stuff like that?”
“And stuff like that.”
“No. Is that what you like?”
“Not always, but it seems fitting for you.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re beautiful.” He presses a kiss to my lower belly. “And soft. Sexy. I have a fantasy. Something I haven’t thought about in years.”
“Tell me.”
Balt drags his hand over my cock, rubbing in a circle. “A very long time ago, I had a friend who had a lover, and my friend, he would spoil his lover. You know, buy him all the finest things. One day he confessed that he bought him lingerie and sexy pajamas, and he showed the stuff to me.”
“Mm-hmm. And it made you feel something?”
Balt nods. “I’ve never had someone in my life who made me want to do that.”
My brow crinkles. “Do you now?”
Balt chuckles softly. “The thought has popped into my mind a couple of times since meeting you.”
“Really?”
“I get how weird that sounds. We still hardly know each other, and this is all…” He blows out a breath. “Temporary. But if you’d let me, I’d really like to.”
“It’s not weird, Balt, but it’s unexpected.”
“Yeah.”
I brush my fingers across his soft beard. “I don’t want you to do something because you think you owe me in some way. You don’t. If anything, I’ll owe you when this is all over.”
“My only motivation is desire.” His hands roam over my hips. “So much desire.”
My stomach flutters with excitement. “I’ll never deny your desire.”
A slow smile spreads across his face. “Thank you.”
I gasp as he roughly tugs my briefs down. My cock bounces free between us.
“Fuck,” he whispers. “So pretty.”
Before I can say anything, he twists me around and bends me over the desk.
“Oh god.”
“Damn.” Balt squeezes my ass cheeks. “Pretty,” he murmurs again before he bites me.
I’m at a complete loss for words as Balt spreads my cheeks and buries his face between them, licking and sucking my hole. All I can do is claw at the desk and remind myself to breathe.
The idea that my family could walk in at any moment makes this ten times hotter. At least from this angle, they’d only get a partial view of what he’s doing to me.
Balt eats my hole like it’s his last meal and I am here for it. I can’t even remember the last time I was worked over so thoroughly. He’s making obscene noises, pausing only to tickle my rim with his finger.
“P-please, Balt.”
“Please what, sweetheart?”
“More.”
“I’ll take care of you.”
And he does.
Time stops as Balt invades my body with his fingers and tongue. I want to reach down and stroke myself off, but at the same time I want this feeling to last.
“I want to fuck you so bad,” Balt says, biting my ass cheek again. “You’re stunning when you take my cock.”
“I want that too.”
He flips me over so quickly I get dizzy for a second, then he shoves me farther up the desk and closes his hot mouth over my dick, making me shout his name.
He’s relentless, sucking me and fingering my hole until I’m panting his name as I barrel towards release.
I rock my hips to fuck his mouth, twisting my fingers in his hair and losing my fucking mind.
“Balt,” I pant. “Fuck.”
He doesn’t say a word, but he does suck a little harder, moaning and grunting as he swallows around me. That does the trick.
My balls tighten and the knot in my belly explodes, sending waves of pleasure through me. My cock surges, spilling cum into Balt’s eager mouth, and he sucks me through it until I’m flinching and pushing on his head to stop.
While I lie flat on the desk catching my breath, he moves up my body, kissing my neck and nibbling my earlobe. Before he can move away, I reach up and grip the back of his neck, pulling him down for a kiss.
He kisses me the way he ate my ass—with enthusiasm. I love the feeling of my naked, oversensitive cock rubbing against his silky trousers, and I almost feel like I could rally for round two.
“Your turn,” I mumble as I catch my breath.
Balt shakes his head, hovering above me. “No. I enjoyed myself.”
“Don’t you want to come?”
He shakes his head again. “Not yet. I like the wanting.”
“Damn, Balt. You might be the sexiest man alive.”
He laughs and helps me off the desk. He pulls my briefs and pants up, buttoning and zipping them after tucking my shirt back in.
“Good as new.”
My mind races with all the ways I can please him later. He likes the wanting? I can work with that.
“Thank you.”
Balt nods, gazing at me with that sultry look in his eyes. “Thank you for sharing your body so freely. I don’t take it for granted.”
“I know. That’s probably why I feel free with you.” I glance around the office. “I guess we should get back to work.”
Balt nods, but his eyes linger on me. I reach down and rub between his legs, noting how hard his dick is.
“You do want me, don’t you?”
“Very much so.”
I bite my bottom lip as I gaze into his eyes, already planning some ways to turn him out. “You’re very unexpected.”
“I could say the same to you.” He leans in and kisses me briefly. “Best workday I’ve ever had.”
“Me too.” Dragging a hand through my hair, I glance back at the files I was working on. “Focus.”
“For now. We’ll be alone again in a few hours.”
“We sure will.”
I walk away on shaky legs. I’m all aflutter with excitement now. I’ve never edged a man, but if anyone could inspire me, it’s this sexy beast.