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Dark spots danced behind Trey’s eyes, and he blinked slowly, trying to get his vision to clear. With the way his blood zinged oh-so-pleasantly through his veins, he did it languidly. Trey hummed as he nuzzled his mate’s slender neck.

“Wow,”

Trey mumbled with a heavy, satisfied smile.

“Just wow.”

Ulkna licked over where he’d bitten Trey, sending a shiver down his spine.

Oh, that feels amazing.

Trey chuckled quietly as he nuzzled his temple against Ulkna’s.

“Yeah,”

Ulkna whispered, turning his head a little and bussing a kiss on Trey’s temple in return.

“Definitely wow.”

Lifting his head, Trey stared down at Ulkna. He took in his mate’s relaxed features and the sated tilt of his lips. His face remained flushed, and his hazel eyes gleamed with pleasure.

“Gods, you’re a gorgeous man,”

Trey murmured, threading his fingers through Ulkna’s dirty-blond hair.

“Love that expression on your face.”

Dipping his head, Trey pecked a kiss to his mate’s lips.

“Wanna put it there often.”

Ulkna grinned up at him.

“I’ll let you put it there any time you want.”

Trey chuckled.

“You will, will you?”

“Yep.”

Ulkna cradled Trey’s neck and drew him down into a slow, thorough, tongue-fucking kiss.

Feeling renewed heat kindle in his veins, Trey eased up. He rested his weight on his elbows as he teased his fingertips through Ulkna’s short, dirty-blond hair. Trey massaged the skin of his scalp, hearing his mate’s hum of pleasure as he pressed into his touch.

Trey relished that reaction. He loved knowing that his mate enjoyed his touch so much. Even though he wanted to keep going, to continue touching, kissing, and petting, he knew they needed to share a few words first. While Trey understood it was the shifter way to bond first and figure out the rest later, he wanted time to leisurely explore, too.

That meant finding somewhere a little more secluded.

Like that lovely tent right there.

Trey pecked another kiss to Ulkna’s lips before easing up.

“Let’s get cleaned up and move this party,”

he encouraged, rising to his knees.

Once kneeling, Trey whipped his shirt over his head and began rubbing at his belly and groin, clearing his body of their combined seed. His movements stilled as he stared at Ulkna, taking in his mate’s exposed flesh. He hummed appreciatively as he viewed his lover’s flushed torso.

Trey licked his lips as he eyed the streaks of cum coating Ulkna’s still-hard dick and abdominals.

“Want to taste that so bad.”

The sound of some critter rustling in the bushes reminded Trey that they were out in the open. While he wasn’t a prude by any means, he was finding that when it came to his mate, he was a possessive bastard. Trey didn’t want to share his forever lover’s handsome naked body or beauty in pleasure any more than he would have to, considering his mate was a shifter who’d need to get nude to shift.

To that end, Trey pushed aside his desire to lick Ulkna clean. Another time, he promised himself. He finished a quick swipe over his own body before turning his attention to giving Ulkna a swift wipe-down, too.

“Come on, Ulkna,”

Trey urged once he was finished, tossing the shirt toward the backpack Payson had left them. Rising to his feet, he held out a hand to his still-reclining lover.

“Join me in the tent.”

Trey couldn’t help how husky his voice became.

“I want to explore.”

A feral grin slowly curved Ulkna’s lips as he placed his hand in Trey’s.

“Only if I get to explore right back.”

Trey tugged Ulkna to his feet.

“That’s exactly what I hoped you’d say.”

Ulkna continued to eye him as Trey took the few steps to the tent’s entrance. There, he unabashedly shoved down his sweatpants and toed off his socks, leaving him nude. Bending at the waist, Trey grabbed the tent zipper, and peering over his shoulder and flexing his ass cheeks in what he hoped was an enticing manner, he slowly unzipped the flap.

Seeing Ulkna’s gaze riveted to his ass, Trey grinned as he shoved the flap open. “Come on,”

he urged again, slipping into the tent. When Ulkna moved to follow, Trey held up his hand, palm out, to stop him. Then he used a forefinger to indicate all of him.

“No clothes in the tent, my mate.”

With a soft growl, Ulkna narrowed his eyes. Just as quickly, he began stripping.

Trey watched hungrily as Ulkna bared himself to his appreciative gaze. Easing to his knees, he held open the flap. Once a gorgeously naked Ulkna joined him, Trey made quick work of closing them inside and rolling out the sleeping bag.

Then Trey sprawled on it, beckoning Ulkna with a lifted hand and crooked fingers.

Ulkna settled next to him without hesitation, curling around him with an arm over his waist and his leg slung over his calves.

A relaxed, pleased sigh escaped Trey’s lips as he curved his arm around Ulkna’s shoulders and tucked him even closer. While he was the larger male, and his mate seemed more than happy to cuddle into him, he didn’t kid himself into thinking he was the more dominant. After all, Trey remembered the way Ulkna had growled when he’d tried to put distance between them in the paddock earlier.

Because of that, Trey would always relish every chance he got to hold Ulkna. He hoped it was often. Having grown up with a pretty touchy-feely family, he’d missed the affection shown between them over the years of his semi-solitude.

Maybe my mate will be willing to give that to me.

The feel of Ulkna sliding his palm down his stomach drew Trey out of his thoughts. The scrape of his lover’s fingernails along his treasure trail pulled a soft hum from his throat. When Ulkna bypassed his erection to cradle his balls, Trey groaned with bliss and spread his legs wider.

“You have about all eternity to stop doing that,”

Trey mumbled, reveling in the tingles that were spreading through his groin. Hearing Ulkna chuckle huskily, Trey grinned and sighed.

“Gods, love your petting.”

“Good,”

Ulkna rumbled, leaning up and placing licking, sucking kisses along his collarbone.

“Because I sure like petting you.”

Then he nipped over the skin where Ulkna had marked Trey, causing a fresh wave of tingles to spread over him, and his nipples beaded. Before Trey could find his tongue, Ulkna rolled his balls and crooned into his ear.

“But now I really need to know. Why does your horse form look like a gelding?”

Ulkna’s massaging felt so good, it took Trey a few heartbeats to process his mate’s question. When he did, he barked a soft laugh. Trey opened eyelids he hadn’t even realized he’d closed, and he grinned at Ulkna.

“That’s what you’re thinking about right now?”

Trey teased the sensitive skin at the top of his mate’s ass crack and smirked.

“You wanna know about...my horse form?”

Grunting, Ulkna shifted his hips against him. Still, he muttered.

“Well, yeah.”

He frowned up at him.

“I’m curious.”

Trey couldn’t resist chuckling once more.

“It’s really not that interesting,”

he told his mate, but seeing the way Ulkna furrowed his brows, he let out a resigned sigh.

“Very well.”

Fighting through his arousal, Trey forced his brain to work.

“Do you know much about horse biology? Specifically, when we’re young colts?”

After a few seconds of hesitation, Ulkna shook his head.

“Not really. I never bred horses,”

he shared.

“Just trained them.”

Not surprised, Trey revealed.

“Well, for the first year or so of a colt’s life, they have the ability to suck their testicles into their body.”

Trey watched the way Ulkna’s eyes rounded, and he chuckled.

“It’s normally something a colt does as a fight or flight reflex. Something to keep them safe.”

“Ooookay,”

Ulkna replied slowly, sounding uncertain. He skimmed his fingernails over Trey’s ball sack. “And you?”

Trey fought back the heat that threatened to creep up his neck, and that time, it wasn’t caused by arousal. After clearing his throat, he explained.

“I learned about that about a hundred years or so ago and found it fascinating. I wanted to know if I could figure out how to control those muscles.”

Trey scoffed depreciatively.

“So, uh...it took months of practice, but I finally mastered it. I could pull my testicles up while in horse form, making me look like a gelding.”

Peering down at Ulkna, Trey smiled wryly as he admitted.

“The skill never did me any good until this trail riding gig.”

“Really?”

Ulkna released Trey’s ball sack and began teasing a fingertip around the base of his erection, lightly tugging his pubes gently and causing Trey’s gut to clench. “How so?”

The way Ulkna continued to play with his groin made it increasingly hard to focus.

“Insurance,”

Trey managed to mumble. He tightened his arms around his mate a bit before managing to relax again.

“Can’t insure a stallion for trail rides. Liability’s too high.”

When Ulkna skimmed his fingertips around his sack once more, Trey felt his cock jerk as pre-cum beaded at his slit. “Shit,”

he hissed, more than ready to move on from the conversation.

“Want you, damn it.”

Ulkna chuckled huskily as he squeezed Trey’s ball sack gently.

“Can you do it in human form?”

Trey let out a snort as amusement momentarily beat back his arousal. “No.”

Seeing his mate’s smirk and arched brow, he added.

“Totally different sort of anatomy.”

Nodding, Ulkna murmured.

“Makes sense.”

Then, evidently done with the conversation—thank the gods—Ulkna rolled and half sprawled over Trey. He levered up a bit, sliding his free hand up so he could thread his fingers into Trey’s hair. Using the hold, Ulkna held Trey’s head in place as he captured Trey’s mouth with his own.

Trey opened instantly, welcoming his mate’s plundering kiss. Dueling with Ulkna’s tongue, he lapped and suckled. He relished his lover’s enthusiasm and shivered upon feeling his nipping caresses.

Flexing his fingers, Trey clutched Ulkna to him. The heat of his mate’s body against his own caused his arousal to burn even hotter. His dick flexed and twitched at his groin, and the feel of Ulkna squeezing and jacking his cock caused him to groan into the other man’s mouth.

Ulkna broke the kiss only to begin working down Trey’s jaw and along his neck, leaving wet sucking kisses and light nips that left goose bumps in their wake.

“So responsive,”

Ulkna crooned, his voice low and rough.

“Love the noises you make.”

Trey wouldn’t have been able to stop the grunts, moans, and mutters of pleasure even if he’d wanted to. The feel of Ulkna’s hand working his cock combined with his mate’s mouth on him created a riot of sensations in his blood. The hairs on his neck stood on end, and his balls began to tighten.

“U-Ulkna,”

Trey whined, rocking into his strokes. “C-Close.”

Growling in Trey’s ear, Ulkna muttered, “Not yet.”

Then his mate’s hand on his cock was gone.

Before Trey could voice his dismay, Ulkna shimmied down his body. His fingers were replaced with his mate’s hot, wet, sucking mouth. Trey’s prick was surrounded by the sweetest suction, and he barked a cry as his hips bucked.

Ulkna gripped Trey’s hips, forcing them down. He followed the move with his mouth, swallowing him to the root. His mate’s throat muscles worked around Trey’s crown, and a jolt of bliss rocked through him as his orgasm slammed into him. Trey poured burst after burst of seed down Ulkna’s throat, and his mate took it all, continuing to suck and bob on his unloading prick.

Finally, Trey’s dick grew too sensitive even as it still felt wonderful. He whined and shifted his hips, and Ulkna seemed to understand. His mate released his cock with a pop and grinned up at him, his hazel eyes dark with his satisfaction.

Trey panted harshly, trying to catch his breath, as he smiled back. He eyed Ulkna’s smug expression, and his mate had every right to look that way. The man had damn blown his mind.

“I want to fuck you so bad right now, Trey,”

Ulkna declared gruffly. His nostrils flared as he rubbed his chin along the side of Trey’s damp shaft.

“And I sure hope you’re a switch, because afterward”—Ulkna paused to flick out his tongue, teasing at Trey’s sensitive crown—“I want this beauty in my ass.”

Moaning in anticipation, Trey nodded.

“Hell, yeah.”

Ulkna grinned broadly, then popped the cap on a bottle of lube. Where it had come from, Trey didn’t know, and he didn’t care. Spreading his legs, all he cared about was getting Ulkna’s long, slender prick into his ass as swiftly as possible.

With the way Ulkna quickly began to prepare him, Trey figured his mate was of the same mind, and he was more than on board with that.