Chapter 8
Chapter
Eight
H ayden paced while he waited for Daniel to put the baby to bed.
He’d asked the ladies to watch over Jacks tonight if he woke up, so Daniel didn’t have to be on call.
He wanted no interruptions and no chance that this was going to be ruined.
He hadn’t really thought Daniel would ever own up to the chemistry between them, but one touch that made the hair rise on the back of his neck, and Daniel had fallen right in.
So now he was really hoping that Daniel would fall right in again, touching and kissing and maybe sucking things.
A knock sounded, and he moved right over to open the door, letting Daniel into the sitting room that guarded his bedroom.
He smiled, super pleased to see Daniel there wearing a casual pair of sweatpants and a soft sweater. “Hey. Come on in.”
Daniel came in, and he had something in his hand. Hayden blinked at it and Daniel thrust it at him. “It’s a box of bonbons. Denise gave it to me a while ago, I thought since we didn’t have ice cream because we had it with Jacks, chocolate would be good.”
“Chocolate is very good.” He took the box out of Daniel’s hand and set it aside, then grabbed the wrist that was still stretched out toward him to reel Daniel in.
Daniel caught his breath, his eyes widening, his pupils dilating, and he stared into Hayden’s eyes, lips parted.
“Is this okay?” Hayden looked down at Daniel, his heart pounding.
“This is so much better than okay.” He touched Hayden’s cheek, finger skating over his cheekbone just under his eye, and his lashes fluttered, but he didn’t close his eyes. He trusted Daniel that much already.
Daniel went up on tiptoe, just about the time he bent down, his lips to Daniel’s.
Daniel moaned for him, and Hayden deepened the kiss immediately, knowing he didn’t have to hold back now because there was no baby to wake up, and there was no one to walk in on them.
He just wanted more of this already. The electric feel of their skin touching, the shocks that ran up and down his body every time, his tongue pushed into Daniel’s mouth.
He grabbed Daniel’s butt, and hauled them together, rubbing a little bit. His cock was already rock-hard. Daniel didn’t smell the same now, somehow. His hair was a little damp, so maybe he’d had a shower, but the smell of his skin was utterly intoxicating. It was making Hayden drunk.
Daniel moaned, leaning into him and just holding onto his shoulders, fingers digging into the muscles there, and he could barely stand it.
“Can we take this to the bedroom?” He didn’t want to just pick Daniel up and carry him. That wasn’t all consenting adult, he figured. He didn’t know what to call it, but he needed to—as Daniel’s boss and as dragon to human—keep this as equal as he could.
“Yes, now.” Daniel grinned up at him, “Don’t mince words and be all weird and gentle. I want you.”
“I want you, too.” So Hayden gave up on trying to be all non-dragony and just picked Daniel up to carry him right to the bedroom.
Those long legs wrapped around him, clinging as he held Daniel up. When he got to the bedroom, he didn’t bother to put Daniel down on the floor. Hayden placed him on the bed and immediately started working on his clothes.
Hayden put a knee down on the bed and bent down over Daniel; that way he could take another kiss, lips and tongue moving hard as he rubbed his cock against Daniel’s hip.
“Mmmm.” Daniel planted his feet on the bed, spreading his knees and raising his hips up, his cock pressing against his soft sweats in an obvious way. “God, you feel good. So good.”
“You smell amazing.” He buried his nose in Daniel’s neck and breathed deep, loving on that patch of skin right where Daniel’s neck met his shoulder, the loose opening of the sweater not hiding it.
“I took a shower. I didn’t put all the deodorant on and stuff, but I don’t smell really bad bad, right?” That pretty blue gaze met his, worry creeping in, Daniel touching the same patch of skin he’d been nibbling on.
“I think you smell stunning, Daniel. I mean it. Your scent is heady. I just love the way the skin smells after a shower, rather than having all those chemicals on it.” It didn’t smell completely human either.
Which surprised him.
Did Daniel know there was something else in the mix of his DNA, and he was using all those deodorants and stuff to cover it up? Or did he just think he smelled different than everyone else, and so he was self-conscious about it?
Hayden was going to have to find out though. Thank goodness he had some condoms in his bedside table. Not that it mattered because it wasn’t an equinox or a solstice, but if Daniel had any kind of dragon blood in him, he could get pregnant.
Hayden didn’t want that to be on the table unless they had discussed it.
“Oh well, that… thank you. I usually… people think that I’m kind of, I guess, strong-smelling.
Hormones, you know, and—” Daniel rolled his eyes.
“And that’s so sexy to bring up, right?” Then he got a quick grin.
“But they do say that if you like the way a man smells, you know that means a good chemical match.”
If Hayden wasn’t so horny he would explore that with Daniel a little more, but now wasn’t the time. His entire body felt sort of penis-forward. He didn’t want to talk about chemicals and pheromones—he just wanted to play with them.
So he moved a little further down Daniel’s neck and nipped the skin before sucking to draw up a mark.
“Uhn!” Daniel bucked against him, hips drawing back, then pressing forward hard. Hayden could feel the ridge of Daniel’s cock, could smell it as his scent intensified with the heat of their bodies.
Goddess.
Daniel grabbed his shoulders, fingertips digging in hard for a moment before the desperate touch eased and the touch slid down over his pecs.
His nipples went hard, drawing up into stiff peaks, like they were begging for Daniel’s touch. He’d be damned if Daniel didn’t give it.
Hayden bit down a little harder, sucked a little more firmly, encouraging Daniel to give him a firm touch of his own.
“Fuck, don’t stop.” Daniel found his nipples and squeezed, twisting them slightly, and he growled, the sound filling the air, vibrating everywhere.
He could feel it as Daniel responded, the touch suddenly sizzling in the best possible way.
The world suddenly smelled of brimstone and smoke, and Hayden found himself starving for skin.
He ripped Daniel’s shirt off, satisfied as hell when Daniel nodded and grabbed his shirt and tugged it away too.
Those blue eyes sparkled for him. “I want everything.”
Hayden nodded. He understood. He wanted every inch. He wanted to blow Daniel’s mind in every possible way, and he fully intended to do that.
They smacked together, lips mashing against each other, hands trying to find the best grip, both of them fighting a little for the best angle. Arms and legs could be such a weird thing with a new lover, but Hayden didn’t mind that.
Learning Daniel was a privilege.
“Please. Hayden.” Daniel tugged at his pants, struggling with the button and zipper.
“You first.” He leaned back enough to yank Daniel’s pants off, watching as that sweet, long cock sprang free. That ass gave him palpitations, too, and he slid a hand down to palm one cheek.
Daniel made another one of those sex noises, a cross between a grunt and a moan, and pressed down into his touch.
“That’s it, honey,” Hayden told him. “That’s it.
Feel how good this is. You’re so hot, and this little ass is just the most perfect thing.
” He squeezed, letting Daniel really feel it.
And he could feel moisture, Daniel’s body readying itself for him.
That was not a human trait at all. That was something a dragon omega would do.
As annoyed as he was at the idea that he had tried to hire a human to take care of Jacks, to teach him how to pretend to be human, and gotten a dragon instead, satisfaction still roared through him.
In fact, a little voice inside his head said, “Mate, this could be your mate.” He could feel it deep in his gut, right above his cock, which was hard as a rock again. That seemed cliched, but it was true.
Daniel nodded, rubbing against him again, his cock bouncing up against his stomach. “I feel it. I want you. You’re amazing.”
“Daniel, sweetheart, you’re the amazing one.” He was so possessive already, and his body was just burning to take Daniel, to make Daniel his.
Daniel blushed for him, head ducking. “What are you into? Are you a blowjob guy? Pitching? Catching?”
As Hayden spoke, Daniel grabbed his cock and started stroking — not too much, just up and down, base to tip as he talked.
“Me? I’m sort of a bottom. I mean, I can pitch, but when I’m—” Daniel’s thumb rubbed over the tip of his prick, almost too roughly as Hayden’s ass tightened, going rock hard. “I have to admit I do like being filled up.”
“I could definitely fill you up.” Hayden was finding it hard to think, hard to see straight with that touch driving him insane.
Every single time that sweet hand petted him, it made him just a little dizzy, and his balls drew up, caught in the rhythm.
He realized, all of a sudden, he was being so selfish. Not touching back, ignoring the pleasure he could give in return. His entire thought process had stopped, focused on his body and the way that Daniel was loving on him.
He could rectify that though.
He ripped his concentration away from Daniel’s hand and began to map his— mate’s —lover’s body, searching with his fingertips and with the heat of his dragon.
He found every little hot spot, every little bundle of nerves that heightened Daniel’s arousal, and with each discovery his dragon rejoiced.
He found one at the curve of Daniel’s collarbone.
Another above one tight little pink nipple.
Then a collection of nerves at the small of Daniel’s back.
Hayden mapped them, intending to sink his teeth in each one in turn. Leave his marks on the pale skin. Leave a little roadmap for his dragon to follow, over and over again.