Page 93 of He is Poison

Dom’s tongue slippedthrough his lips. “I... want to make you feel better. I suppose.”

Seth teased Dom’s armwith the cold fingers he’d held the steak with before. “Is that the best youcan do?”

A frown appeared onDom’s face and he leaned back with a growl. “You liked my cock just fine lasttime I checked.”

Seth sighed, but pulledDom back closer with his legs. “I’m just teasing you. I—” He looked up intoDom’s eyes. “I want to.”

There was a brief momentof pause before Dom leaned forward, but the kiss Seth expected didn’t come.With a loud, heart-stopping sniff, Domenico smelled Seth’s neck, letting hislips and tongue hover low above the skin, warming it with his breath. “Comewith me?”

A shiver went throughSeth’s body, the attraction acting better than any anesthetic. He nodded andslid off the table. He still couldn’t get over Dom talking about “making love”,but he suddenly felt too shy to mock that. It wasn’t going to be another blowjob session, Seth knew what he was agreeing to, but he didn’t feel all thatscared anymore. He wanted to be close, have Domenico’s pitch-black hair fall onhis torso. He wanted to gaze into his eyes, and feel Domenico’s strong armsholding him in place, anchoring him in the reality he was forced to drift in.

Domenico’s hand sliddown his forearm, and their fingers entwined. Then, with a pull, he was ledtoward the safety of their bedroom. With the door closed, the smell ofdisinfectant was gone and that small fact separated Seth from the thoughts ofthe night’s slaughter. The sunlight was so bright he could see bits of dustdancing in the air.

Seth rubbed hisforehead, fighting back a new assault of tears. He wasn’t willing to give inthis time, but he had to sniff. “Are you gonna stick around when we go back?”He slid his fingertips over the bruise covering half of Dom’s side. He hopedthey were still a bit cool from holding the meat. Domenico rested his head onSeth’s arm with a sigh and brushed the back of his hand down the middle ofSeth’s torso.

“Do you want me to?”

“I do. I don’t want tobe alone in this.” Seth moved his touch to Dom’s bicep, which could as well bemade of steel not flesh.

Domenico nodded, and hisfingers spread over Seth’s pec, massaging it gently. “I will take care of youthen.”

Seth smiled and leanedinto the touch of those hot fingers, a shiver already running down to hisballs. Maybe it was naive, but he did believe Dom. Who else was he to dependon?

“So you like me now?”asked Domenico. Coming from anyone else, it might have sounded sarcastic, butto Domenico, it was a straightforward question. A surprising one nevertheless.

“A bit,” Seth teasedwith a small smile. The truth was he liked Dom a lot more than “a bit” by now;it was the situation they were in that he hated. If he could choose someone totake for a tropical holiday, he’d choose Dom. Maybe not forever, but heimagined they would have fun. Fucking and sipping drinks on the beach. He couldeven make those coconut drinks for Dom, just to see him rest in the sun like asated lion.

The smile he got was sowarm he stopped breathing. Within a split second though, he inhaled again whenDom pushed him on the bed, following immediately, ready to devour his prey.

Seth smiled back andslid his fingers into Dom’s black hair, which was only slightly damp by now.His heart already picked up the pace at the thought that they would go all theway again. He wasn’t all that scared anymore, and submitting to a guy likeDomenico Acerbi could hardly be considered weak. “I’m sorry for yesterday. Ididn’t know what to do…” he whispered.

Hazel eyes looked up athim from below, where Domenico was planting small, gentle kisses across Seth’schest. “I know.”

“There is a way out, youknow…” Seth swallowed and relaxed against the soft bedding, stroking Dom’snape. No one had to know he gave in to bottoming. It would be just betweenthem.

Domenico’s fingers werenow searching the territory on the inner side of Seth’s thighs, moving themaround in a slow, languid dance that wasn’t even synchronized. It sent jolts ofexcitement to Seth’s dick. “Hn?”

“We could run awaytogether.” Seth locked his gaze with Dom’s, hoping what he was saying wouldn’tanger him. “Fuck in this bed now, and then just leave. We have some moneybetween us. We could just go. We’d be at the station in two hours. In Canada,or something, in two days. We’d just vanish.”

Dom stopped breathingand looked up, slowly rising on his arms with his expression frozen. “I...no... I can’t,” he stuttered, “It would be a sin to break my vows, I... I tookan oath, burned the picture, I am obliged to do what my Don tells me to.”

Seth put his palm onDom’s chest, and almost pulled it back, surprised at how fast Dom’s heart waspounding. “Isn’t it a sin what you do with me?”

Domenico cupped the sideof Seth’s face, looking at him like he wanted to see straight into Seth’s soul.There was something incredibly raw and straightforward in that gaze. “It’s alesser sin. I never vowed to stay away from men, but to the family that took mein, I am bound till I die.”

Seth tried to understandit, tap into his way of thinking. “I’m your family…” He swallowed, unwilling toponder on it too much.

Domenico gasped andpulled Seth’s hand to his lips to press a fervent kiss to the flesh. “Yes, youhave my loyalty as well. And once you succeed your father, you will hold mylife in your hands.”

Seth took deep breaths,overwhelmed by the intensity in Dom’s gaze. “We’ll make it work somehow, won’twe?” He pushed up to kiss Dom’s bruised chin. With all the surrounding danger,it was good to have Dom around, to believe he would be loyal. Never beforecould Seth be honest with a lover about his family, about his past, or theimpending future. How was he to tell Peter that he knew about his family’scriminal activities and wasn’t reporting it to the police? Or tell his friendsthat he helped kidnap a young woman and kept her locked up? She damn welldeserved it, but they wouldn’t understand. Dom was in the same boat. Dom wasintent on protecting him. Tonight had been proof of that.

Domenico nuzzled hischeek with a wolfish smile. “So, you wanna strip?”

Seth looked up at him,surprised by the wave of shyness that washed over him. Hot, cold, and tinglyall over. He couldn’t choke anything out, so he nodded and pushed his thumbsunder the waistband of his jogging bottoms. What he was about to offer Dom madehis stomach clench again and tightened his throat. Seth raised his hips when hepushed down his pants, revealing more dark hair and an already half-erect cock.

Dom didn’t seem to havethe same reservations. He quickly pushed off his trunks and squeezed Seth’sknee with a possessive grunt. His handsome face was slowly getting closer toSeth’s cock, with a flush of desire spread all over the skin.

With a deep breath, Sethpushed up his hips, eager for those lips around his dick. He finished pushinghis pants off with his feet.