Page 27 of Gratification in Gluttony (Passing Through Cafe #2)

Chapter twenty-seven

Myri Je Entwyn

When they arrived at Toni’s flat, Jude carried his overnight bag into the bedroom while Toni retrieved the meal he’d prepped the night before and popped it into the oven. As they waited for it to bake, Jude taught Toni how to play the B7 chord on the guitar, then he invited Toni to join him, Oliver, and Liel at a hockey game the following month.

“I’ve never been to a hockey game,” Toni said, and Jude’s eyes flashed with excitement.

“I think you’ll like it,” he said confidently.

They ate the traditional Elas rice dish Toni had prepared at the table and after, they showered together, laughing as they used the sudsy shampoo to give each other obnoxious hairstyles. Toni shaped an impressive beard on Jude’s chin as Jude slicked Toni’s hair up into a mohawk. And when Toni kissed him, Jude sighed and melted against him, like it was the easiest thing in the world.

Once they were squeaky clean, they dressed in their pajamas, then Toni proceeded to decimate Jude in his favorite first-person-shooter video game.

“And that, ladies and gentlemen—and nonbinary people, of course—is why Toni is the video game king!” He stood and bowed before his imaginary audience of adoring fans. “Thank you. Thank you. No really, it’s not even me. It’s all of you’s. I do this for you.”

“Who are you talking to?” Jude laughed around his sip of beer.

“All my fans,” Toni said, waving his hand at the empty living room.

“I just learned how to play this game. You can’t be that smug when beating me.”

“Well, buckle in, buttercup,” Toni said as he bent down to peck Jude’s mouth. “Because I can, and I will.”

“It’s buckle up ,” Jude corrected, breath hot against Toni’s lips.

“Whatever,” Toni said, kissing him again, lingering. “By the way, what the fuck is a buttercup?”

“I think it’s a type of flower.” Setting aside the video game controller, Jude circled an arm around Toni’s neck, trailing kisses over Toni’s jaw.

Toni frowned. “Why would you buckle up a flower?”

“Toni”—Jude leaned back, leveling him with an are-you-serious glare—“is that really what you want to talk about right now?”

“Hey, this is payback for the whole tell-me-about-your-internal-organs-instead-of-doing-me debacle from the summer,” Toni griped as Jude nibbled on his earlobe.

“Shut up, pretty boy, and let me do you,” Jude whispered seductively in Toni’s ear, and a pleased sound rumbled to life in Toni’s chest.

“Okay, I can get behind that plan.” Hoisting Jude into his arms, he gave his ass a squeeze as Jude secured his legs around Toni’s waist. He carried him into the bedroom, nerves taking flight in his gut as deposited his human on the mattress. “Did you bring your harness?”

Already unbuttoning his shirt, Jude nodded. “Yes.”

“Good. Get yourself ready. I, uh, have a bit of a surprise for you.”

“A surprise?” Jude’s face scrunched. “If you’re gonna say you have a surprise in your pants—”

“No! I have an actual surprise.” Toni reared back, offended, before he amended, “You know, to go along with the surprise in my pants. Ow!”

He scampered away to stop Jude from smacking him in the stomach again.

“You’re ridiculous,” Jude said as he shrugged off his shirt, and Toni took a moment to admire his olive skin and black ink. As Jude rifled through his overnight bag, he cast Toni a lascivious grin. “Go get that surprise then while I get my dick ready.”

“Yeah,” Toni purred. “Get that dick ready for me.”

“You wanna choose?” Jude opened the bag wider, revealing a glimpse at several sex toys.

“Nah, you choose this time.” Toni winked as he backed toward the door. “I’ll be back.”

Since he’d already hidden the frilly clothes and brand-new makeup palette in the bathroom, Toni wasted no time shutting and locking the door, then ridding himself of his clothing. He gave himself a quick wipe-down to freshen up—because he was nothing if not a courteous lover—then he finagled the frilly, pink outfit on.

Since he’d already painted his nails to match the lingerie, he only applied some eye makeup and a lightly tinted lip balm, then inspected his work in the mirror. To be honest, he still thought he looked stupid. He was just too masculine to pull this shit off. He was broad-shouldered and muscular, and his features were fierce and blocky. It didn’t seem to fit the delicate material or soft color.

“I can be pretty too,” Toni whispered, before he blew out an anxious breath and turned toward the door.

When he peeked into the bedroom through the crack in the door, he found Jude on the bed, already naked and wearing his harness. He was scrolling on his phone, feet crossed at the ankles, humming under his breath, and a throb of affection pulsed behind Toni’s chest plate. It chased away the nerves somewhat.

He opened the door and stepped inside, webbed toes flexing on the carpet as Jude glanced up, eyes widening. Feeling stupid and ridiculous, Toni shifted his weight, fighting the urge to fidget with the frilly hem of the lingerie top.

A tender smile spread over Jude’s face as he set his phone on the side table and rose onto his knees. “Toni,” he said, voice overflowing with fondness. “Look at you.”

“I know it’s kinda silly—” Toni started, but Jude shook his head.

“It’s not silly. You’re beautiful.”

Embarrassment had taken root in Toni’s cheeks, but the warmth flooding his belly was something else entirely. Like the first time Gem had brought him home to meet his family, and Gem’s father had embraced him, saying, “Welcome, son, come on in.” It was acceptance and home and love. Yeah, it was love, and Toni was never going to let it go.

“Come here.” Jude knee-walked to the foot of the bed and held out his hand. “Come here, pretty boy.”

And Toni went. Because he trusted Jude with the parts of himself he’d never given to anyone else. Because he knew Jude would take them with care. Because he knew Jude would protect them and keep them safe. So he went, and when Jude kissed him, he thought, yes and yes and yes .

“Do you want to be pretty boy , tonight?” Jude whispered against Toni’s cheek. “Or pretty girl ?”

Rubbing Jude’s sides, Toni chuffed. “It ain’t a gender thing.”

“Okay,” Jude said easily. “ Pretty boy it is, then. I’m gonna take care of you tonight.”

“O-okay,” Toni said unsteadily, and Jude smiled against neck.

“Lay down on your stomach,” Jude instructed with one last kiss to Toni’s jaw, and Toni obeyed.

His cocks—which had softened from anxiety—were perking back up, and he resisted the instinct to grind them against the mattress as he settled on his stomach. Crawling up behind him, Jude settled his weight on Toni’s ass, hands flattening on either side of his spinal fin.

“You look so pretty in this,” Jude said, rubbing over the sheer fabric. “Did you like it because of the color?”

Toni swallowed thickly and shook his head.

“Why did you choose this one, Toni?”

Shame tried to steal his voice, but Toni pushed through it. “It’s frilly. I liked that.”

“Me too.” Toni heard the smile in Jude’s voice as he massaged the muscles on either side of his spinal fin. “I also like that it’s see-through, so I can see the strong body beneath.”

Toni snickered, half-hiding his face in the sheets. “I liked that it’s soft.”

Like he was rewarding Toni for his honesty, Jude nuzzled the space behind his pointed ear and kissed him there. “It is very soft. But you’re hard under it, aren’t you?”

Toni groaned as he nodded, flexing his hips to rub his erections against the bed.

“Are you hard, Toni?” Jude asked again.

“Yes,” Toni bit out between clenched teeth.

“Good boy,” he said, and Toni whimpered.

With a chuckle, Jude kissed the back of his neck, then the top of his fin. Something warm and a little wet pressed to the base of his fin, and Toni shuddered when he realized Jude was grinding his pussy against him.

“Oh fuck, do that,” Toni said, fisting the sheets tightly.

“You want me to get off rubbing against your fin?” Jude asked, breathing heavier now.

“Yeah,” Toni said, and Jude chuckled again.

“Later. I’m gonna fuck you first.”

Toni squeezed his eyes shut and nodded exuberantly at that. It had been too long since he’d had Jude inside him, and he needed it. “Please,” he said, and Jude tightened his grip on Toni’s waist as he slid down until he straddled Toni’s thighs.

“I don’t think I’m going to undress you,” Jude said, almost conversationally as the bottle of lube clicked open. “I’m gonna fuck you in your jockstrap, while you wear your pretty, pink babydoll.”

“Fuck yes.” Toni tried to widen his legs, but Jude was bracketing them between his knees.

“Easy, killer. Relax, I got you.”

“I know,” Toni said, and he meant it.

When Jude spread his cheeks, cool air hit his asshole, and Toni moaned as something warm and sticky dripped onto it a moment later. Jude’s spit? It wasn’t lube—of that, Toni was sure—and he moaned as Jude rubbed his thumb over Toni’s ass. The lube came next, cold and slick, and Toni went limp, submitting to Jude’s coaxing fingers and words of praise.

He said, “Bear down. There you go. Just like that, Toni.”

He said, “Look at you, taking my fingers so good.”

He said, “You want my cock, baby?”

“Yes. Fuck. Please, just fuck me.” Toni was grinding desperately against the bed now, pushing back on Jude’s fingers as his dicks dragged against the sheets.

“I will,” Jude promised. “Turn around, sweetheart.”

With a somewhat frustrated, needy noise, Toni obeyed, slotting his fin into the mattress groove. Jude knelt between his legs, fitting the dildo into his harness. He considered the condom before he arched a brow at Toni.

“I suppose we don’t need this anymore, huh?”

Since Toni didn’t want Jude using his dicks on anyone else, Toni shook his head. Jude set the condom packet aside, then lubed up his dick. It was thicker than the one he’d used last time, with a bulbous ring near the base. It was reminiscent of a Lupyn knot, and Toni shivered in anticipation.

After wiping his hand clean on the duvet, Jude framed the inside of Toni’s thighs and pushed, spreading him further. His dicks bucked, the upper one poking out the top of his jockstrap. Jude swirled his finger over the exposed tip but did nothing else to stimulate Toni’s cocks, and Toni grunted in impatience.

“All good things to those who wait,” Jude chided as he lined his dick up with Toni’s ass. Then he started to push inside, and Toni threw his head back with a moan as he bore down. It stretched him until he ached, but Toni wanted it; he wanted it all.

“You’re doing so good,” Jude rubbed his thighs as he hugged Toni’s spread legs to his sides. “Fuck, you’re so hot when you take my dick.”

Toni could do nothing but choke out a hoarse sound as he flattened his hand on the headboard so he could push down on Jude’s dick. When the entire length, save for the flared base, was inside, Jude stilled, directing Toni’s legs to rest over his thighs.

Reaching over Toni’s hips, Jude retrieved two more toys—cock sleeves, Toni realized—and proceeded to lube them up. “Oh fuck,” Toni breathed, cocks jerking as Jude sent him a borderline evil grin. “You’re gonna kill me.”

“It’ll be an honorable death,” Jude said with a wink, and Toni’s laugh was more than a little manic.

Jude rolled down the front of Toni’s jock, settling it behind his ball, then gave each cock a stroke. He made quick work of sliding first one cock sleeve, then the other, onto Toni’s dicks. Speared on Jude’s cock, Toni could do nothing but lie there and take it as Jude proceeded to stroke him off with the sleeves, the insides tight and ribbed.

“Feel good?” Jude asked, like an asshole, and Toni half-laugh, half-cried as he nodded.

“So good. Fuck.”

Abruptly, Jude released him, leaving his dicks enveloped in the sleeves as he focused back on the cock in his ass. “Don’t come until I tell you.”

“You bastard,” Toni growled out.

Jude tisked. “Don’t act like you don’t like it.”

Securing his arms around Toni’s thighs again, Jude rolled his hips, withdrawing the dildo a few inches before pushing back in. He gave Toni a few minutes to be fully loose before he picked up his pace, snapping his hips forward faster and harder.

This time, Toni used the hand on the headboard to keep his body from moving up the bed as Jude fucked him. His sleeved dicks bounced on his belly, and he held them down with his other hand so they didn’t slide out of the toys. When Jude didn’t reprimand him, he pressed the sleeves harder to his stomach and thrust up into them.

The sensations were overwhelming. His hole stretched over the thick dildo, ass full. His dicks flexing inside the ribbed heaven of the sleeves. His orgasm was there, tightening in his lower back, making his thighs tremble, but he fought it. Because Jude told him to wait, and he wanted to be good.

“I’m gonna come,” Toni warned.

“No, you’re not,” Jude huffed, rising high on his knees and pushing Toni’s legs forward until he was curled up, ass up so Jude could pound into him. “Not yet.”

“I can’t. Baby, I can’t. I need to come. Please let me come.” Toni was willing to grovel at this point, but then Jude pushed deeper, that thick ring rubbing deliciously against his rim as it popped in and out of him. “Fuck, Jude, I’m really coming now. Please.”

“Stroke yourself off, baby,” Jude said, and Toni dropped his other hand, fisting both cock sleeves and thrusting wildly into them as his orgasm crashed through him. “There you go, pretty boy. You’re so beautiful when you come.”

Toni’s vocabulary had dwindled to only a few choice curses as he shattered apart, trembling uncontrollably as Jude continued to stimulate his rim with the flared base of his cock. It prolonged his orgasm until he could barely take it, and he collapsed back on the mattress with a weary cry.

As he came down, Jude slowed his thrusts, cooing reassurances and praise the whole time. He gave each dick a few strokes with the cock sleeves, making Toni jerk and whimper from sensitivity, before he gently slid the sleeves free. Toni’s spent cocks fell limply onto his stomach with an obscenely wet noise, and Jude rubbed at his thighs as he carefully withdrew his dick.

Toni was too blissed out to track Jude’s movements, but when the mattress depressed beside his head, he opened his eyes to find Jude swinging one leg over to straddle his face. His small hand delved into Toni’s hair, his eyes dark with lust as he smiled down at him.

“Suck me,” he said hoarsely, and Toni snarled.

Still trembling with aftershocks, he did his best to eat Jude out, but he was kind of thankful when Jude did most of the work, grinding down on his face as he chased his own pleasure. Using Toni’s hair as a handhold, Jude rubbed his cunt over Toni’s mouth and chin, then he angled his hips until Toni could latch onto his clit. Toni sucked as Jude fucked his mouth with his stiff, swollen clit.

With a guttural cry, Jude stiffened and started to come, flooding Toni’s mouth with his slickness. He white-knuckled the headboard to keep his balance as he pressed Toni’s face deeper into his pussy, continuing to roll his hips as he shook with pleasure.

It took Jude almost a full minute to gather the strength needed to lift off Toni’s face completely. Even then, he didn’t get far, sliding down Toni’s body, leaving a wet trail on the pink satin until he settled his weight on Toni’s stomach.

Wiping Toni’s face clean, Jude kissed him, plunging his tongue deep, like he was chasing his own taste, and Toni wrapped his arms around his human and held tight. Jude peppered his face with kisses, wincing as he touched the corners of Toni’s eyes.

“I smeared your makeup,” he said, voice utterly wrecked.

“Worth it,” Toni croaked. “Best sex of my fucking life.”

Jude chuckled and burrowed into Toni’s neck, kissing his gills lovingly. “Same.”

Toni ran his hands up and down Jude’s sweaty back as the night settled around them. Jude’s breathing slowly evened out, and he sighed, curling into Toni’s embrace.

“I like this,” he said, voice tinged in embarrassment, like the confession was too vulnerable. “I like being this way with you.”

“I like you every way,” Toni said honestly, and Jude beamed up at him. “I like you soft,” he said as he traced Jude’s lips. “And I like you hard,” he said as he pressed his finger to Jude’s teeth. “I like you nice,” he said as trailed a finger down the length of Jude’s throat. “And I like you mean,” he said as he gently circled Jude’s neck and gave it a barely-there squeeze, bringing a gasp from between his lips.

“I just like you all the ways,” Toni finished with a peck to Jude’s nose, and Jude smiled before he tucked his head under Toni’s chin.

“Me too,” he said, another vulnerable admission. “I like you all the ways too, Toni.”

And fuck if that didn’t punch Toni right in the heart. “ Myri je entwyn ,” he whispered into Jude’s scalp, and his human sighed.

“What’s that?”

“It’s Elani for I love you ,” Toni said without an ounce of shame, and Jude kissed him under his lowest gill.

“Myree ye entwin,” he echoed, butchering the pronunciation.

Toni smiled, going warm all over. “Good enough.”

“You’ll teach me Elani, right?” Jude glided his fingers over the sheer, frilly fabric covering Toni’s chest.

“If you want to learn,” Toni said, nuzzling Jude’s head. “But English is easy for me, so you don’t have to.”

“I want to,” Jude insisted, making eye contact so Toni could read the sincerity there.

“The species’ dialects tend to be more complicated and nuanced than Hellia is.” Toni tucked a stray curl behind Jude’s ear. “But you’re so smart, you’ll pick it up in no time.”

“Myri je entwyn,” Jude repeated, his pronunciation already improved.

And Toni smiled and said, “I love you too.”