Page 28 of After All This Time (A Time For Love #2)

Liam

I t’s late when the screen lights up with Cooper’s name.

Seventeen years apart and in just one handful of weeks all the resistance I built up to protect him from my obsession is dust at his feet.

Now the gates are wide fucking open and he’s welcoming it all.

Letting me touch him.

Letting me pour into him every ounce of my raw need for him.

Letting me hope that I can keep him.

These past few days away from him have been hell. Thankfully, most of my time awake has been spent with Theo, hashing out every aspect of his business proposal.

All sense of tiredness vanishes the moment I accept Cooper’s call.

“Hey, baby.”

“Hey, stud,” he says, and I can almost picture the smirk on his beautiful face.

I laugh.

“Somehow, I don’t think that will catch on.”

“No? I could get Nate to start calling you that, too.”

“Please don’t,” I wince. “That would probably traumatize me. And him.”

“Yeah, you’re probably right,” he chuckles softly in my ear. “How was your day?”

“Good, though it just got way better.”

“Were you always such a sweet talker?”

“Nah, you just bring it out of me.”

He hums and I just know he’ll have a faint blush staining his cheeks.

“Are you blushing?”

“No?”

“Are you asking or telling me?”

“It’s too dark, I can’t tell,” he mumbles, and I hear the rustling sounds of what must be him undressing.

There is a brief, hesitant silence and I wish I could see the expression on his face.

Just as I’m about to speak, his words stop mine in their tracks.

“I miss you, Li.”

And there it is. His two-letter name for me in that breathy voice that makes me feral.

Paired with him saying he missed me?

I’m gone for him.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.”

“I miss you, too, Coop. So fucking much.”

I hear the catch in his breath and his soft exhale through the phone.

“Did you imagine I was watching that movie with you? Holding you in my arms?”

“God, Li, I wanted that so bad.”

“You did, didn’t you? Is that all you imagined, sweetheart?”

His hesitation makes me chuckle darkly.

“What else did you imagine, Coop? Was I stroking your pretty neck before kissing softly the places where my bruises were?”

My voice drops to a low timbre as I tell him everything I would have wanted to do to him.

“Was I sliding my hand up your shirt to run my fingers over your quivering belly, before dipping it inside your briefs to play with your weeping cock?”

“Fuck, Liam. I love it when you talk to me like that,” he moans quietly in my ear and I have to squeeze my dick through my sleep pants.

And by the sounds of it, I’m not the only one who’s had the same idea.

“What are you doing now, Coop? Are you touching your pretty dick for me?”

“Y- Yes,” he says brokenly.

“Good. Play with your hard cock until it’s dripping for me but don’t come. Can you do that for me?”

“I- I think so.” Fuck he sounds so fucked out already that I can’t resist fisting my own length.

“Good boy.” The praise slips out of me without meaning to and for a moment I hold my breath, not knowing how he’s going to take it.

But he gasps, and the sound of flesh smacking against flesh is the only thing I hear.

“F-fuck, Liam. I want to be so good for you.”

Oh shit, he loves it. He loves it and I want to devour him whole.

“You are so good for me, baby. Would you have let me play with you with our friends mere feet away, oblivious to my hand pumping you hard in the dark, while you tried to muffle your moans with your palm?”

“ Li!” He’s fucking chanting my name and I’m leaking so much for him that my fist is flying on my aching dick.

“Yeah, you would have loved to scream my fucking name but you’d have to be quiet so that we wouldn’t get caught, so you’d just swallow all the hot as fuck sounds that are slipping out of your lips right now, because those sounds are for my ears only. Aren’t they, baby?”

“ Ah – yes, t-they’re yours. Only yours, Li,” he whimpers and I wish I was there to kiss that perfect whimper as the possessive beast in my chest roars its approval.

“That’s right, baby, they’re all mine, just like you are, aren’t you, Coop?”

His choked off moan is like music to my ears, knowing he must be so close to coming.

“F-fuck, y-yes, I’m yours, Li. P-please, let me come,” he whispers in an anguished voice that betrays his desperation.

“Yes, you’re fucking mine, Cooper. Now, fuck your fist like a good boy until you’re soaked in cum.”

His low moan sets off the orgasm that’s been building up inside me since the moment I heard his voice. It crashes into me with a force that leaves me gasping, as ropes and ropes of cum spurt from my twitching dick, covering my abs and hand.

“Jesus Christ,” Coop pants in my ear. “I think you broke me.”

His light chuckle fills my heart with all the adoration I feel for him.

“If it’s any consolation, I think you broke me, too.”

He sighs and I feel that sigh in my chest.

“Hey, Li?”

“Yeah, Coop?”

“Hurry back home,” he says and the small tremble in his voice makes me wish I could hold him in my arms and cast away all the doubt I can hear in that faint tremble.

“I will,” I vow to him.

After all, all roads lead back to him.

***

I’m on a flight home the very next night.

Having talked about all matters concerning initial capital, hiring personnel, and property listings on my side of the country, and having settled on what our next steps should be, Theo and I agreed it was nothing that couldn’t be done remotely for the time being.

I could have waited for an early morning flight, but the thought of getting to Cooper sooner was too tempting to pass, so by the time I arrive at the apartment, there’s nothing but darkness inside.

I make sure to make no noise as I leave my bags in the guest room and take a quick shower.

Clad in a fresh T-shirt and briefs, my feet carry me to Cooper’s door which is cracked open. I slip in quietly but the view halts my steps.

I drink in the way he looks as he sleeps peacefully on his stomach, hugging his pillow, his face turned towards me. One of his knees is perched higher, making his black briefs mold on his ass, while the sheet that’s supposed to be covering him is doing a very bad job at it.

How can he look so innocent and so sinful at the same time, I’ll never know.

I slide under the sheet trying not to jostle the bed too much, and the moment my body hits the mattress and his citrus scent envelops me, it feels like I’m home.

I sigh as I feel the tension of the past few days evaporate.

“Li?” I hear Cooper’s sleepy mumble. “Are you back?”

Shuffling closer to him, I fit myself against his warm body, pulling his back to my front, melding us together.

He melts against me and I brush a soft kiss on his tender neck.

“I’m back, baby. Go back to sleep,” I whisper, placing another kiss on his temple. “I’ll be here when you wake up.”

“Mmm... Promise?” he mutters but his soft snores tell me he’s already asleep.

“I promise, love.” And I sink into a dreamless sleep, because all I’ve ever dreamed of is safely in my arms.