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My truck bounces along the dirt road through the Woods to the Black Stump, strangely in time with the beat to the music playing softly through the radio. With Theo’s hand in mine over the centre console and the windows down to let in the fresh summer breeze, things feel good. Right.
I could basically do this drive in my sleep, which is handy because I’m exhausted from last night, but the creatures of the Woods aren’t used to vehicles and have a horrible habit of darting out when you aren’t looking. So I keep my eyes trained on the path ahead of me, rolling along fast enough to get where we’re going, but slow enough that we’re not going to have any unfortunate accidents on the way. It’d probably kill the mood.
I risk the chance to take my eyes off the road for a second, shifting slightly to look over at Theo in the other seat. His head is tilted back, eyes closed softly, a soft smile on his lips as he sings along to the decades-old pop tune.
Watching those delicate pink lips move, it’s all too easy to remember how they were wrapped around my cock only a couple of hours ago as I fucked his mouth in the shower. His doe-like, innocent eyes had watered as he’d sucked me down harder and harder. I worried I was hurting him, but he only gripped tighter to my ass, digging his fingers in, urging me on, until I grabbed handfuls of his hair and rode his mouth until I came down his throat.
I tried to return the favour, dragging him from the hard floor and pushing him against the shower wall, but he came the moment I dropped to my knees and wrapped my hand around his cock.
His head thunked against the tiles, loud over his pained cry, his cock jerking in my hand as thick white ropes of cum spurted over me. We both watched his release as the water rinsed it from my chest and belly, swirling down the drain. A look of shock and horror morphed over his face as he blushed furiously, and he groaned, cupping his face in his palms.
“Gods, that is embarrassing.” The blush spread down his neck and covered his chest. Unable to hold in my laughter, as I stood and scooped him up in my arms, I kissed his head when he buried his face in my chest. I’d laughed even harder when I’d pinched his ass, following it up with a swift wet smack, making him yelp adorably.
“More like a compliment.” I flicked off the water and half carried him out of the small shower cubicle. It wasn’t until I was almost finished towel drying him, kissing my way around his body as I did so, that the blush left his skin, and his shy smile turned eager again, and we kissed, with me pinning him againstthe bathroom cabinet, until we grew hard again, and he came rubbing his cock against me, whimpering mindlessly about love.
Like I said, it had been a good morning. Even if we had to rush to get back in time for lunch when I was due back.
He must sense my eyes on him because Theo’s hand gives mine a little squeeze, and he opens his eyes, just enough to look over and smile at me sleepily. The way my heart squeezes and somersaults with the look of love in his eyes would have made a younger, more immature me feel vaguely nauseous.
“I cannot wait to get home, and justugh. I miss Mauvy’s cooking.” Theo slumps dramatically in his seat, and my heart squeezes again at him calling the tavernhome. I look back towards the road. We are within spitting distance, really, of the tavern, and I can feel it singing in my blood.
“Yeah, it’ll be good to be back. It’s only one night, but it’s always a lot to leave.”
Theo hums in agreement and moves again in his seat to look me more square on, tugging on our joined hands as he does so. I go to release him, thinking that he wants to let go, but he only holds on firmer.
“So, are we going to tell everyone or…” he lets the question hang there, anxiety lacing his words.
As the road deviates towards the grounds of the Black Stump Tavern, I glance over at him. He stares me down warily, his teeth worrying at his lip. I have to navigate the small car park and the guests waving at us from the lawns, so I squeeze his hand again, rubbing my thumb along the soft skin on the back of his hand.
“I don’t really think there is any hiding it, Theo.”
Huffing a laugh, I pull my car into its spot next to my tiny, white house and switch off the engine. “I don’t think we’veeverdone a particularly good job of hiding it.”
Theo’s nose scrunches with his smile, making my heart sing and then he’s clambering over the console, giving me justenough time to slide the seat back before he’s straddling me, gripping my beard to angle my head in just the right position to press tiny, biting kisses up and down my neck.
In the heat of the sun beating down on the glass, the car becomes stiflingly hot, though neither of us pay it any attention, Theo riding my lap, my hands burrowed under his tee shirt to grope at his sweat slick skin.
That is, until a tap on the window interrupts us. Theo’s surprised yelp drowns out my groan. A stony-faced Edith peers over the top of the glass. In the heat of the summer, she is still covered in her many black layers—her only give to the sway of the season is the layers are cotton and lace, rather than the velvets and furs of the cooler months.
“There is someone here for you, Theo. He says…”
It’s never good when there is worry in Edith’s face, and it’s there now. Her purple eyes are tight with concern.
“He says… he’s your boyfriend. Darius.”
Blood rushes my ears, and in that moment it feels like my spirit has left my body, but my first concern is for Theo, who is now paralysed above me, not even breathing, his gaze locked on Edith. Despite the warring flood of emotions flooding me—rage, panic, fear—I rub gently at the small of Theo’s back, trying to tell myself that thishasto be a mistake. Theo has been here for months now, not to mention his time with Marieth, surely he’d have mentioned aboyfriendat any point along the way.
“Theo, what’s going on… I…” I immediately regret the harshness of my voice, but I can’t hold it back, too many feelings choking me in the heat of the car.
Theo withdraws from my touch, pulling back into himself in that way that he does. Unable to look me in the eye, he slides off my lap to curl up on the passenger seat.
“Darius is, was,is?” he shakes himself as if he’s confused. “Someone from my past. I thought it was over. I really did.”Tears shine in his eyes when he looks up at me pleadingly. “I should talk to him. Let him know…”
His voice trails off, and I try to smile reassuringly, but this all feels wrong. But with my faeknowingsilent on the issue, I feel… bereft.
“I don’t like this.” Edith scowls under her breath, still outside the window, but Theo is already on his way out of the car, slamming the door and hurrying along the path to the back door of the tavern.
