Chapter Twenty #3
So beautiful, Jesse thought. His gift, his spirit, his physical appearance, all that made Evan who he was, was beauty so supreme to rival the angels.
Watching Evan at that moment and knowing what he knew now, if it was possible for the immense love he felt for him to grow, then it doubled its depth into his soul, and he knew whatever future they would have, his love for Evan had melded into his very essence.
Jesse took a breath to pull himself from his thoughts and opened one of the doors. He walked toward the pool, holding one arm behind his back, and watched Evan swim, admiring the ripples in his deltoids and how the water rolled off the muscles in his back.
Evan reached the shallow four-foot section of the pool and touched bottom. His eyes fell on Jesse and a wide smile shone over his features. “I knew you were here,” he said, walking through the water and brushing his hair back with one hand.
Jesse went to one knee at the pool’s edge. “Did you see me standing inside?”
Evan reached the edge of the pool and shook his head. “I felt you. Does that sound weird?”
Jesse stroked along Evan’s cheek with his fingertips. “No. It’s happened to me when you’re near, too.”
Evan gazed up at him, his smile fading slightly. “Are you okay?”
Jesse nodded. “Yeah, I’m fine. I’m just tired. It was a long day and I feel bad for getting home later than I told you.”
“Don’t feel bad. I know how it goes when you’re trying to get stuff done in the studio, especially when you got new people playing for you.
” Evan smiled up at him. “But pretty soon we’ll be going to work together.
I talked to JJ today and he’s flying in on my birthday.
He’s planning on taking the next day to recover, but after that, for the rest of the week we’ll be in the studio getting things ready to start recording and working with the other guys Greg’s bringing in. ”
“I can’t wait to meet him. Are we all going to go out for your birthday?”
“Well, his flight comes in late in the afternoon, and I was planning on picking him up, but I’m not sure he’ll be up to partying. He’s flying from Australia and he’s not the best flyer to begin with, so I’ll probably just get a drink with him then come home.”
Jesse leaned down, stopping with his lips a fraction from Evan’s. “I was thinking about taking your birthday off, so I’ll go with you.”
Evan put his index finger to Jesse’s lips. “No. You’re not going to disrupt your work because of me. It’s just another day.”
“It’s not just another day. It’s your birthday.”
Evan tapped his finger once against Jesse’s lips. “No.”
Jesse exhaled a frustrated huff. “Fine.” He brought his arm forward from behind his back, revealing a gold bag featuring a stylized design of a nude woman with long hair riding a horse.
He pulled out a gold box with the same design on the lid, and opened it to neat rows of Godiva dark chocolate truffles.
“Even though you’re mean to me, I guess I’ll still give you these since you were pouting last night about there not being any good chocolate in the house. ”
“You’re scary perfect, you know that?” Evan pulled one of the truffles from the box.
He bit it in half and held the other half up to Jesse.
Jesse bent down and took the delicacy, along with Evan’s fingertips, into his mouth.
Evan slowly drew his fingers back and tugged on the bottom of Jesse’s khaki shorts. “Are you coming in?”
“Yeah.” Jesse set the box to the side and stood up, pulling his T-shirt over his head.
Evan gazed at Jesse’s wiry muscles stretching with each movement. “I love watching you strip.”
Jesse pushed his boxers down with his shorts, exposing his rapidly rising cock. “I should do a striptease for you one of these days.”
Evan chuckled. “You’re such a little exhibitionist.”
“And you love it.”
Jesse sat at the edge of the pool. He slipped his legs in the water and eased the rest of his body in.
A shiver shook him from the shock of the cold water, but passed as Evan’s warm flesh pressed against him.
Evan claimed his mouth, his lips wet and cool from the pool water, his tongue tasting of the chocolate he’d just eaten.
Jesse sent a quiet moan from his mouth to Evan’s and wrapped his arms around his neck.
Evan pushed him back against the pool wall and thrust his hips slowly against him.
Jesse broke the kiss with a soft sigh. As good as Evan’s cock felt behind the black nylon fabric of his swimming trunks, he knew it’d feel ten times better without the cloth in the way.
He drifted his hands down Evan’s back and around to his hips, hooked his thumbs over the top of the trunks and pushed them down.
Evan kicked them off underwater and caught them on one foot, which he lifted to remove the trunks, and tossed them from the pool. He took a handful of Jesse’s hair behind his head and pulled his head back, kissing down the full length of his throat.
Jesse groaned and embraced Evan tighter around his neck. “Let’s worship each other for the rest of the night. Let’s make it last for hours.”
Evan briefly sucked on Jesse’s bottom lip. “That’s what I want, too. I feel like I won’t be able to get enough of you tonight.”
“I don’t think I’ll be able to get enough of you for the rest of my life,” Jesse said, and met Evan’s tongue as their lips closed together.