Johann Bonus Epilogue
Jay
Jay rubbed himself down with his towel, making sure to catch every stray drop of water on his body. He didn’t want to get their bed all damp, and he had no intention of putting on pajamas. That would just be silly when he could sleep naked instead.
He went over his hair thoroughly as well, even though he’d still probably get a wet spot on the pillow.
Usually Alexei did this part for him, but his mate had already showered before Jay got home from taking Tux out for a nighttime stroll in his special backpack, the one with the plastic bubble poking out that allowed the cat to observe the outside world.
Tux loved his nighttime strolls. So did Jay. So did Alexei, usually.
But tonight he’d been working on some complicated financial reports for the shelter that frankly sounded boring as all heck, so Jay had left him to it and taken Tux out by himself.
It had been lovely and quiet in the streets, but it wasn’t nearly as nice as having Alexei there with him, holding Jay’s hand. Next time he’d just have to put his boring paperwork aside and come with Jay, anyway.
Quality time was important.
When Jay’s hair was as dry as it was going to get—the still-damp strands sticking up in all sorts of interesting ways—Jay tossed the towel into the bathroom hamper (the bathroom was so much bigger in their new home), and strolled out into the bedroom, ready to tear the offending documents out of Alexei’s hands so they could have a proper naked snuggle.
Except, while Alexei was in bed where Jay had left him (and wasn’t it so nice how he often did his work in their bed so Jay could still cuddle up to him when he got lonely?), he was no longer poring over boring financials.
Instead, he had Jay’s e-reader in his hands, the one he’d gotten Jay for their one-year anniversary.
Jay paused at the foot of the bed, feeling his face flush a little.
Not only because his mate looked so handsome there—sprawled on top of the covers in only his underwear, his broad chest on full display and his pretty hair down around his face—but because Jay was remembering exactly what he’d been reading on said device.
But maybe Alexei was looking at a different book?
Jay crawled carefully onto the mattress, sitting on his knees and trying to peer over the top of the reader. Alexei didn’t even glance at him, which was very rare when Jay was all clean and naked like this.
Jay cleared his throat. “Whatcha looking at?”
“Hm?” Alexei cocked a brow, his eyes still on his reading, and just by the sound of that little hum, Jay could tell there would be teasing ahead.
Which Alexei confirmed with his next words.
“Oh, just a little light reading. Not sure if you’ve heard of it.
The Highlander’s Rod, I believe it’s called? ”
“The Highlander’s Sword,” Jay corrected, a little indignant.
“Oops. My mistake.”
But it didn’t seem like it was a mistake at all. Jay crept forward on the bed slowly, not sure where this was going yet. Maybe Alexei didn’t like that Jay still read smutty books, even with all the delicious sex they were always having?
But Jay didn’t feel any disappointment or censure through the bond, only the slightest touch of amusement and the familiar swirl of desire Alexei always put out when Jay was naked around him. The latter was reassuring, since Alexei still wasn’t looking at him.
“I just got to a very interesting scene,” Alexei mused, ignoring Jay’s slow advancement.
“Oh!” Jay gave up on careful movements when he finally reached his destination, flopping down with his front to Alexei’s side, snuggling into his mate’s warmth. “The part where Fergus has to defend Miriam’s honor against the villainous count?”
“Mm? No.” Alexei snaked his hand around Jay’s waist, tugging him even more firmly against him. “The part where Fergus has Miriam bent over in the stables and is whispering some truly filthy things into her virgin ears.”
“Oh.” Jay’s own ears were burning now, and he squirmed a little against Alexei’s broad frame, suddenly very aware that his now-hardening cock (he couldn’t help it, okay?) was pressed up against Alexei’s hip. He knew that scene. He knew that scene very well.
“It turns out that while Miriam doesn’t appreciate the count’s attentions, she doesn’t quite mind having the fearsome Highlander at her back. Why do you think that is, kitten?”
Jay bit at his bottom lip. “Well, Fergus is very…kind. To Miriam.”
“Is he?” Alexei made a skeptical noise. “This mentions him locking her up in his family’s keep.”
“Or—or maybe she just likes…” Jay was squirming again. He couldn’t help it. “Well, he’s very…big. I mean, his body is. He’s very tall and muscular and…” Jay trailed off.
“I see.” Alexei’s fingers were tracing absent-minded circles along Jay’s bare hip, raising goose bumps in their wake. “And so Miriam likes that? How big and strong he is when she’s so…petite?”
“Mm-hmm. She’s always been so proper and refined, but now there’s this big, gruff Highlander, and he can just toss her around, and it’s very…enticing.”
Alexei’s lips quirked up just a touch. “Now, why does that sound familiar?”
“I know you’re teasing me.”
But Jay kind of liked it. It was like Alexei had found Jay’s horny-embarrassment button and was pressing it purposefully.
Jay was fully hard now, his cock making a damp spot on Alexei’s clothed hip.
He fingered at the waistband of Alexei’s boxer briefs.
“Maybe—um—maybe you should take these off?” he asked.
“And then maybe…maybe you could tell me more about what you’re reading? ”
The e-reader almost hid Alexei’s smirk but not quite. “Of course, kotyonok.”
Alexei tossed the device onto his chest and slid his underwear off in one smooth motion. And oh! Alexei was hard too, his big, thick cock bobbing along his stomach. Well, that was…
That was distracting, was what it was.
But Alexei had already picked up the reader, his free arm tugging Jay close again. “Oh my. I guess Fergus isn’t wearing anything under his kilt, now is he?”
“He isn’t?” Jay asked, as if he didn’t already know that, hadn’t read over this particular scene three times already.
“Not a scrap. He’s got it all rucked up too, and his member…” Alexei gave a mock gasp. “Well, it’s simply enormous, apparently.”
“It is?” Jay bit at his lips, arousal swirling in his belly. He knew Alexei was teasing him still, but why was it so hot?
“Oh yeah. He’s got one big hand wrapped around it.” Alexei bent his knees and balanced the device on his raised thighs, wrapping his own hand around his bobbing cock, as if in demonstration. “And he’s stroking himself, getting ready to ravish young Miriam.”
The fingers of his other hand were trailing along Jay’s spine now, almost all the way down to his tailbone.
“And—” Jay swallowed hard. “And does she want to be ravished?”
“Well, she’s conflicted about it. Her lips are saying no, but her body is saying—” Alexei paused, cocking a brow at Jay. “You read some problematic romance, you know that?”
“Alexei!” Jay flushed, willing to concede it was a fair point but unwilling to get into it at the moment. “You’re ruining the mood,” he whined.
“Oh, am I?” Alexei’s fingers traveled lower, trailing over Jay’s hole. Not pressing in, just…rubbing along there. And that was good. Really, really nice, actually. Jay couldn’t help it. He started rutting at Alexei’s hip like a little animal.
Alexei cleared his throat, turning back to the book. “Okay, so she’s conflicted. She wants to say no, but he’s so big and so strong, and she can feel how hard he is, pressed up against her petticoats.”
“And is Fergus still—still touching himself?”
“He is.”
Jay pressed his cheek into Alexei’s warm chest. “Maybe you should touch yourself too.”
Alexei’s hand, which had been resting lightly on his own cock, started stroking, and Jay, unbelievably turned on, let himself rut a little harder, since Alexei wasn’t telling him not to.
In fact, Alexei was pushing his broad palm on Jay’s bottom, encouraging his movements, even as he kept rubbing his finger against Jay’s hole.
Not that Jay needed much encouragement. The slide of his cock against Alexei’s bare skin just felt so good.
“And Fergus is… He’s aroused, right?” Jay prompted.
“Very much so, kitten.” Alexei’s voice was coming out a little strangled now. “Having this little trembling treat at his mercy. So sweet, bent over just for him. He’s absolutely throbbing with need.”
So was Jay. He hadn’t known this was a thing, having Alexei talk about his dirty books out loud. But it was. It so was. “Do you think he’s going to—to take her?”
“I think he won’t be able to help himself, kitten.
Not when she’s so tempting.” And something about the way Alexei was saying it was like Jay was the one who was so tempting.
Like he was talking about them, even as he was talking about the book.
It didn’t make any sense, but it also made perfect sense.
Still, Jay wanted to make sure they were in agreement.
“Alexei?”
“Yes, sweetheart?”
“Will you fuck me after this?” Jay was proud of himself for putting it so bluntly. Take that, horny embarrassment! “Bend me over the bed like it’s the stables?”
Alexei sucked in a sharp breath at his request, his arousal punching through the bond and washing over Jay. Jay bit at his lip, maybe a little smug about that. It was usually Alexei driving him crazy with his words, not the other way around.
“Of fucking course I will, sweetheart. You don’t want that now?”
“No…” Jay was too turned on already. Too in the moment, rubbing himself up against his mate. “Make yourself come,” he ordered, except it came out kind of more like a whine. “Please, Alexei, I’m gonna—”
“Shh, kitten, I’ve got you.”
Alexei stroked himself with purpose now, but his free hand kept rubbing at Jay’s hole, the slight pressure there so frustrating but also so good at the same time. Alexei’s hip was sticky with Jay’s precum, and it was awkward and messy, but that felt so good too.
Still, somehow it just wasn’t—
He needed—
But Alexei knew. He always knew. “There you go, sweetheart,” he crooned, lips pressed against Jay’s messy head of hair.
“Look how perfect you are. So turned on by a few dirty words. If Fergus had seen you instead, he wouldn’t have been able to last two hundred pages, would he?
He would have been on you in an instant. Perfect creature.”
Ohh, that was it. The praise lit through Jay like fire, zipping along his spine and settling at the base. He tucked his head into Alexei’s chest, keening as he came, spurting all over Alexei’s skin.
“There you go, baby.”
“Now—now you,” Jay requested, his voice as shaky as his trembling muscles.
“Of course, kotyonok.”
Jay stared in fascination as Alexei stroked himself to the finish.
It was so rare he got to just watch like this.
They were usually too wrapped up in each other for this kind of distance.
But maybe he should ask for a show more often.
Because Alexei was so…so sexy. The way he moved his hand with such confidence, the way he pressed his face into Jay’s hair, like he wanted to be even closer than they were.
When Alexei finished, drops of cum reaching to his chest, he tilted Jay’s chin up for a kiss, his mouth hungry against Jay’s lips.
Jay was already getting all turned on again, and he couldn’t wait until his mate bent him over and filled him up, taking him like the big, strong Highlander he pretend-was.
“Very sneaky of you, reading my secret books,” Jay accused happily, once Alexei released his lips.
“I just wanted to know what always has you so giggly and flushed. Half the time you read these, you jump me two seconds later.”
“Well, um… I have more,” Jay pointed out, feeling strangely shy about offering. “A lot more. Many, many more books we can read together, if you want.”
But there was no need for the shyness, because Alexei only grinned down at him, his pretty eyes full of warmth. “You want to do story time again sometime, kotyonok?”
“Yes, please. Except I want you to really read it to me, not just describe it. And maybe do the voices. And then we can act it out.”
Alexei’s grin widened. “You’re really into this.”
“I am.” Jay scrambled up onto his knees. “But now I need you to bend me over the foot of the bed, please.”
“Are you going to call me Fergus?”
“What? No! You’re Alexei. Always Alexei. Because that’s who I love.”
Alexei laughed, bright and happy. “Of course. I love you too, little alien.”