Hired, page 26
“I need a car.” He pushed his chair back from the table. “I need to see Sebastian.”
“I’ll drive you,” Jaren offered amid whoops and cheers from the others.
“Thank you.” A smile broke free on Hadley’s face. “Wish me luck. I’m about to tell a man I love him for the first time in my life.”
His brothers hugged and kissed him, and then he followed Jaren and Reid, who had insisted on coming with them so Jaren wouldn’t have to drive home alone. They didn’t talk on the way over, Hadley too preoccupied with practicing what he would say to Sebastian. Would he come straight to the point? Or would an intro be better? He could say he wanted to spend the night after all, for example. Sebastian had invited him.
“This is it,” he said when Jaren slowed down as he got close to Sebastian's driveway. “You can drop me off here.”
“Do you want us to wait?” Reid asked. “We’d be happy to.”
Hadley took a fortifying breath. “No. Worst-case scenario, he’d still call me an Uber to get home.”
He waved them off, then put in the code Sebastian had given him, and the gates opened. As always, he waited until they were closed again, making sure no one slipped in unnoticed after him. When he walked up to the front door, Sebastian had opened it and was waiting for him, dressed in low-hanging sweat pants and a Seahawks hoodie. “I didn’t think you’d come,” he said, a huge smile on his face.
Hadley walked up the steps, his heart racing. “I didn’t think I’d come either, but…”
Sebastian let him in and closed the door behind him, and they stood across from each other, silent.
Now, what? Should he make small talk first? Make up an excuse for why he was here? No, no more games.
“Hadley?” Sebastian croaked.
“I’m in love with you.” The words rushed out of Hadley’s mouth. “I know we said we’d keep things casual, and I tried, but I fell in love with you.”
For a few agonizing beats, Sebastian stood there gaping, frozen. But then he closed the distance between them, cradled Hadley’s face in his big hands, and whispered, “I’m so in love with you. I never meant for it to happen either, but you’re it. You’re the man I want to spend the rest of my life with.”
How the fuck was Hadley crying yet again? He hadn’t shed a tear in almost twenty years, and now it kept happening. Maybe because he was allowing himself to feel. “I want to spend the rest of my life with you too.”
Sebastian’s smile was sweet and tender. “How did we manage to get here when we were both so determined to just hook up?”
Hadley raised up on his toes and offered his mouth. “I don’t know, but fate must’ve been smiling down on us.”
Sebastian kissed him with a carefulness and reverence that made Hadley’s heart warm. “Hadley, honey, can I take you to bed?”
As an answer, he jumped up, and Sebastian effortlessly caught him. “Yes, please…my grumpy boss.”
29
Sebastian carried Hadley into his bedroom, where he told Alexa to turn the lights down low. Instead of the usual sexual frenzy, the air between them was now tender. He wanted to take his time tonight, showing Hadley how much he’d grown to love him. He eased him down on the bed, covering him with his own body as he took his mouth in a deep kiss.
No frantic tangling of tongues now but a much slower, languid giving and taking, the two of them engaged in a dance as old as time.
“I want to worship you,” Sebastian whispered, surprised by the poetic level of his own words. “Show you how sexy you are, how beautiful…and how much I love you.”
He’d never said the words to anyone else but his family and maybe a friend or two in a drunken bout of inebriated affection, but now he couldn’t stop saying them. If he kept them inside, this feeling inside him would grow too big, too all-encompassing. He’d drown in it, get sucked under in the wonder and beauty of it.
Hadley pulled him in for a kiss that lasted until Sebastian’s lips were throbbing and he was out of breath. God, he could kiss him for hours. He blazed a trail of kisses down Hadley’s jaw, then his neck, his shoulders, moving lower. He undressed him as he traveled down his body, helping him take off his vest and shirt and getting rid of his own as he went along. His lips found Hadley’s right nipple, and Hadley arched into his touch, moaning as Sebastian sucked. He took the hardening bud between his teeth and gently bit down.
“Oh fuck,” Hadley groaned. “Fuck, that feels good.”
He took his time playing with both nipples, teasing and lavishing them with attention until they were red, wet, and swollen and Hadley was squirming on the bed, his hand pressing against his cock. “You’re gonna make me come just from that.”
Sebastian grinned. “We can’t have that. This is just the appetizer.”
“How many courses does this meal have?”
Sebastian’s smile widened. “A lot, so buckle up, honey.”
Sebastian ran his hands over Hadley’s upper body, exploring every nook and cranny, touching every swell and curve. Hadley let him, spread out on the bed for him like a buffet, a delicious meal that was his to savor. When he finally got to his lower body, he helped him take off his pants.
“Not gonna lie. I was hoping for more panties.” He gestured at Hadley’s rather plain, white boxer briefs.
“I wasn’t planning on coming here. I save my sexy panties for when I know you’ll be seeing them.”
Sebastian stilled and looked up. “We’re boyfriends now, correct?”
Hadley’s smile made his stomach flutter. “Yes, we are.”
“Does that mean I can now buy you all the things I want? Like, say, pretty underwear?” He sent Hadley a hopeful look. Surely now that they were together together, Hadley couldn’t protest that anymore, right?
“As long as you do it for the right reasons, yes. I won’t say no to pretty underwear.”
“Yes!” Sebastian pumped his fist, and Hadley laughed. “Let’s plan a few hours for shopping tomorrow.”
“I’ve never seen a man so eager to shop,” Hadley teased him.
“I’ll admit I have an ulterior motive. Seeing you in those frilly, sexy things makes me so fucking horny.”
Hadley’s eyes darkened. “Let’s buy all the panties, then, because I’ll never say no to more sexy times with you.”
Sebastian kissed him, then took off Hadley’s underwear, leaving him naked. His own was a little harder as he had to roll onto his bed to prevent himself from getting all tangled up, but who cared if he was clumsy? No one but Hadley was watching, and the passionate look in his eyes made it clear he wanted Sebastian no matter what. While he was at it, he grabbed the lube and threw it onto the bed.
“Turn onto your stomach for me?” If he gave Hadley’s cock attention now, the whole show would be over in minutes, judging by how hard he was.
Hadley turned around and spread his legs wide, offering Sebastian all the access he wanted. Such trust and vulnerability didn’t come easy to him, and Sebastian vowed he’d never betray it.
Hadley’s skin was like velvet under his fingertips, warm and sensual. His slender shoulders, his back, tapering down in slim hips, and then that glorious swell. Sebastian kissed his way down again, pressing his lips against that soft skin again and again, sometimes licking, sucking. Hadley moaned, moving restlessly and grinding into the mattress.
He’d always been an ass man, but Hadley’s was next level, those luscious globes so soft as he squeezed them, caressed them, kissed them, then doled out a few firm slaps that made them pink up. They looked even better with his handprints on them, didn’t they? Such a primitive need to claim him, show his ownership, but Sebastian didn’t care. Hadley was his now. Forever.
He bit the meaty part of Hadley’s cheeks, which radiated heat from where he’d hit them, then soothed the red skin with a wet kiss. His fingertips found the two dimples where Hadley’s back met his ass. It was a surefire sign of how besotted he was that he thought those sexy too. Then he journeyed south, slipping his fingers between those ass cheeks, teasing with a featherlight touch. Hadley shivered.
Sebastian buried his face in his crack, breathing him in. Licking. Tasting. Oh, fuck, yes. He’d missed this. No one had felt safe enough to share this intimate act with, but with Hadley, he had no doubts. He kissed his pretty hole first, pressed his lips against it, and felt it twitch against him. A quick lick of his tongue and Hadley gasped, holding on tight to the bed sheets.
He licked again, then circled the entrance with the tip until it softened. So good, and the whimpers Hadley was making were icing on the cake. When his hole had grown soft enough, he pushed the tip of his tongue inside him. Hadley let out a sound Sebastian had never heard anyone make: a high-pitched whimper that transitioned into an endless moan. His grip on Sebastian's hair tightened, but it didn’t bother him. On the contrary, it grounded him somehow, helped him stay in the present and realize this wasn’t some erotic dream but reality.
He inhaled, then pushed his tongue back inside Hadley, stabbing him, spearing him, fucking him until it was a drooly mess, and he still continued. His finger slipped in with ease, even with his tongue right next to it, and a second one wasn’t a problem either. Hadley was babbling now, a litany of “yes, fuck, yes” and “don’t stop.” He’d need lube for the third one, and that was his cue to stop because that shit tasted vile. Still, he’d soon be rewarded for it, and so would Hadley.
He rubbed the lube between his fingers to warm it up, then sank two fingers deep inside Hadley, who bucked off the bed. “Oh, fuck, so close already. You’re driving me insane.”
“Please. I wanna be inside you when you come…”
“Then you’d better shift gears because I’m about to lose my fucking mind.”
Message received. Sebastian worked three fingers in, which Hadley took with ease, and declared him ready. A little more lube on his own cock, which had turned into granite by now, and he, too, was ready. But this time, he wanted to see Hadley’s face, and so he nudged him until Hadley got the hint and turned onto his back. Sebastian put a pillow under his butt for comfort and to create a perfect angle, then rolled on top of him.
He had to kiss him first, those wet, swollen lips too tempting to ignore. But even as he kissed him, his right hand held his cock, so heavy and thick, and he found his way home to Hadley’s hole. He went slow, but Hadley sucked him right in until Sebastian was completely inside him. Would the wonder of that moment ever diminish? The sense of connection he felt with Hadley when their bodies were joined like this?
Hadley moaned into his mouth, and Sebastian swallowed the sound. He pushed himself up on his elbows and met Hadley’s eyes, dark green now and so full of love and want it took Sebastian’s breath away. “Hey, gorgeous,” he whispered.
“Hey, boyfriend.”
Boyfriend. He loved the sound of that. Though he’d like the sound of husband even more. Funny how he had zero doubts that what he and Hadley had together would last. And why wait with making it official? Not that he cared about anyone else’s opinions, but the government did care about the difference between boyfriends and husbands, and so Sebastian did as well. What was even more astonishing was that he knew Hadley would say yes, even if he asked now. That same quiet confidence he had was reflected in Hadley’s eyes. It might have taken them a little while to get their heads out of their asses, but now that they had, this was forever.
“Were you planning on just staring at me for the next few minutes? I mean, it would be effective in staving off my orgasm for a bit.”
“Hush. I was thinking of how perfect we are together and how much faith I have in us.”
Hadley let out a sigh, his eyes going dreamy. “Okay, valid reason.”
Sebastian pulled out almost all the way, just the tip remaining. “That being said, I do plan on moving.”
He slid back in, sensual and slow, feeding Hadley every inch of his cock until their flesh met again. Hadley keened and closed his eyes, his hands on Sebastian’s hips, pushing him down as if to help him. “Perfect. Do that again.”
“My bossy boyfriend.”
Hadley opened one eye. “You like me bossy.”
Sebastian pulled out again and slid back in. “I do. Very much.”
After that, neither of them spoke. They didn’t have to. Their bodies said everything they couldn’t capture in words. This wasn’t the fast, frantic sex they’d always shared. This was languid lovemaking of two people whose hearts were as connected as their bodies. Sebastian kept kissing him, wanting to feel him everywhere, his hips doing the work for him of sinking back inside Hadley again and again.
Hadley opened his legs wider, inviting Sebastian in to make his home there, and he did. Hadley made those beautiful sounds again, whimpers of ecstasy as he clenched his eyes shut. Sebastian’s cock pulsed with pleasure, his muscles quivering, even though he wasn’t going fast. Hadley took his hands off Sebastian’s hips and wrapped them around his neck, pulling him down on top of him. He kissed Sebastian where he could reach him, putting his teeth into that tender spot on his neck that felt so fucking good.
“Fuck, Hadley…”
“Talk to me.”
Talk to him? What did he mean?
“Tell me what you wanna do to me, what you are doing to me. Give me words.”
Ah. “You want me to talk dirty to you?”
“Please. It turns me on so much.”
He didn’t even have to think. The words came automatically, his brain and body in sync. “Mmm, I bet. You feel so good, honey. Do you feel my cock splitting you open as I bury myself deep inside you? Fuck, you’re so tight around me, so hot. You love my cock, don’t you? You love to be fucked.”
Hadley moaned. “So much.”
“I love to fuck you, honey. Fuck you hard until you don’t even know your own name anymore. Fuck you soft and slow until you’re begging me to come. Fuck you so fast you’ll be coming before your brain has even caught up. I’ll fuck you any way, any chance I get. You’re mine now.”
“Yours,” Hadley panted.
“I’m so deep inside you my balls are pressing against your ass…your perfect bubble butt. Fuck, I want to worship that every day of my life for as long as I live. Kiss it and mark it with my hands and my teeth, spank you until you’re a whimpering mess, and then fuck you all over again.”
The words were coming slower now, his body signaling it was about done with the multitasking and could he please focus on what was most pressing here? He needed to come. Fuck, he needed to come.
His lungs worked hard but could only draw in shallow breaths, his body too tense for anything more. An electrifying tingle started in his balls, which pulled up flush against his body as he sucked in another desperate breath. He held on to Hadley, their bodies pressed against each other everywhere, as he snapped his hips and drove into him again and again.
Their panting breaths mingled, their bodies slick against each other, and the erotic sounds of sex filled the room. “You’re so sexy, so perfect, so hot,” Sebastian managed.
“I can’t… I can’t hold back anymore.”
“Come on my cock. Let me feel that sweet hole clench around me as you do. I’ll fill you up, honey. I’ll fill you up until it’s dripping out of you.”
Hadley cried out, throwing his head back as his whole body convulsed and hot wetness spread between them.
“Oh yes, like that, baby. Gimme all of it.”
Another massive shudder, and then his body tightened around Sebastian so fiercely he couldn’t stop his own release anymore. He slammed deep inside him and held on for dear life, his cock pulsing as it came and shot his load.
His insides went liquid, like he was melting from the inside out. At the last moment, he had the wherewithal to roll onto his back and pull Hadley on top of him rather than crash him into the mattress. His muscles were goo, too weak to even carry his own weight. His cock slipped out of Hadley, dragging a trail of cum with it, and even that idea couldn’t make him move. He was blissed out, and judging by the sheer weight and tonelessness of Hadley’s body, so was he. He’d close his eyes for a minute just so he could rest before cleaning them up.
And when he woke up in the middle of the night and discovered that yes, he had fallen asleep, and no, he hadn’t cleaned them up, he dragged himself to the bathroom and did it after all. He woke up Hadley, who rewarded him with sweet kisses that led to round two. By the time he’d come again, he couldn’t even think anymore and fell asleep with his boyfriend in his arms, thinking he was the luckiest man on the planet.
30
“Seb, it’s time to come downstairs!” Hadley called out again, but everything remained quiet upstairs.
Shaking his head but smiling, he made his way up the stairs. Sebastian often didn’t hear him, either because he was too focused on whatever he was doing or because he had noise-canceling headphones on that helped him concentrate. The latter had been Hadley’s suggestion after discovering how sensitive Sebastian was to sounds. He could hardly complain then when the result was that his boyfriend couldn’t hear him.
Boyfriend. He still hadn’t gotten used to that word after being officially together for two weeks. Maybe also because somehow, the word didn’t fit what he felt. It was too small, too ordinary for the grandness of his emotions, the strength of his feelings. Or he was just being a pretentious, lovesick idiot, like Lagan had suggested.
He opened the door to Sebastian’s office. His man did indeed have the headphones on and was sitting on the floor with his back toward the door, mumbling to himself. Hadley quietly took a step inside, curious about what Sebastian was doing. He’d rolled out five different rugs in various shades of white and cream and different textures and was driving a remote-controlled car on them. It had a camera attached to its front, and next to Sebastian was a laptop that showed the images.
“Okay, so it can’t measure the height of the sheepskin one,” Sebastian muttered. “Is it because the contrast in the images isn’t big enough? It has no issues with the cream, short one. Maybe I need to increase the brightness on the camera. Or would going to black and white rather than color help? The white balance might be off, but that would happen in the sun as well. Sun on snow blinds, so I need to find a solution for that.”
