Page 8 of I Do, or Dye Trying

My nerves about my grilling skills faded once the compliments started coming in. People volunteered me to grill every Sunday going forward, and Willa and Sally Ann asked for Granny’s recipe. Any side dish a person could want was available to our guests. My plate was loaded down with grilled meats, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, baked beans, corn on the cob, and Josh’s potato salad. I was weighted down by so many carbs that it was a miracle I could move let alone play cornhole.

Emory had never heard of the game either, so we were given pointers and allowed to have several tosses before the games started. We decided that the winner of each game would continue until they got beat or bored. I knew we’d need to beat Meredith and Josh for them to walk away from the boards. Their first challenge was Willa and Harley, who put up a good battle but were no match for their opponent. Josh and Meredith dispatched Emory and me quickly, which set up the showdown against Kyle and Chaz.

I would never admit this to Josh, but I wanted Kyle and Chaz to win. It was cute to watch them interact, especially when they were the first team to take the lead against Mere and Josh. I stuffed my face with strawberry shortcake, so I had an excuse as to why I wasn’t whooping and hollering for my man to crush his enemy. The lead changed several times, and each time Chaz and Kyle got it back, the friendlier they got with one another. Their high-fives gave way to an excited hug at the end of the game.

Josh wouldn’t admit it, but I knew that he purposely overshot the board on his final throw that gave his opponents the win. He confirmed my theory when he smiled at the victory celebration the two men shared. We swapped partners and played a few more games before it got too dark to see the boards.

Willa and Sally Ann packed up leftovers for everyone to take home while the rest of us put up the tables and chairs. I could hear thunder rumbling in the distance indicating that a pop-up storm was heading our way. That prompted everyone to say goodbye and thank us for a wonderful evening, which was okay with me because I was ready for everyone to leave. I loved nothing more than listening to the sound of rain on the metal roof when I made love to Josh and later held him in my arms. It was the only thing I would miss once we moved.

The sky opened up just as we waved off our last guest. That was when I tossed Josh over my shoulder and carried him off like he had expected me to that morning.

NOW WE WERE TALKING. Yeah, baby, tossed over Gabe’s back and carried off caveman style. Maybe it wasn’t very enlightened to want Gabe to manhandle me, but damn I loved it. There was something so sexy about reducing your man to his baser needs where he could only rut and grunt because he wanted to be inside you so fucking bad.

I expected Gabe to toss me down on the bed and start tearing off our clothes, but he slowly lowered me to my feet so that I could feel how excited he was when my body slid down the length of his. I looked into his gorgeous brown eyes and realized it was going to be a slow burn kind of night with our emotions on display and not hidden behind rutting and grunting.

Gabe cupped my face in his large hands and stared into my eyes. Thunder from the approaching storm rumbled louder and longer as it neared us. I thought it fit the mood perfectly since the emotions I saw in Gabe’s eyes were as stormy as the weather. I knew him well enough that I could easily name them: desire, devotion, and love—so much love. “It’s just the two of us now from here on out, and it’s a damn good thing because there will never be a man who loves you the way that I do.”

Truer words had never been spoken, and they deserved a response that was equally honest and free of snark. I slid one hand around Gabe’s neck and covered his heart with the other one. “I didn’t know I was capable of loving someone the way that I love you; I didn’t know my heart could feel so full. I surely never dreamed that a man like you would love me the way you do.”

We started undressing slowly and treated every inch of revealed skin like a cherished gift we’d been waiting for our entire lives; flesh that was too precious not to kiss or taste. There was a slight tremble to Gabe’s hand when he bumped his fingers teasingly along my spine and to his lips when he pressed them to the skin over my heart.

“Gabe,” I whispered when he slid a finger along the crack of my ass to tease my pucker. There’d be no jokes about pleasure portals or anything else that night because it would cheapen what was going to happen between us.

“My Sunshine,” he whispered back just as reverently.

“Always.”

There was no time for talking after that because our mouths were too busy kissing and catching the sexy sighs that escaped our souls. Gabe lowered me to the bed then followed me down. I spread my legs and opened my arms to him. He fit naturally between them because it was where he was meant to be. As excited as I was to feel him inside me, I didn’t want to miss a second of the buildup to the moment when he slid bare inside me for the first time.

I slid one hand into his hair and raked my fingers down his back with my other until I reached his tight, muscular ass. I gripped a cheek and pulled him tighter against me as I thrusted my hips up into him, grinding our erections together. My stomach became wet and sticky from our combined pre-cum, and my ass quivered with eagerness for Gabe to fill it.

We kissed until I couldn’t take it anymore, the need to have him burned throughout my body until I thought I’d die if I didn’t feel the sting of his penetration. I broke our kiss and retrieved the bottle of lubricant from the bedside table. Gabe took the bottle from me then rolled onto his back. He crooked his finger at me to follow, which I eagerly did because I was under his seductive spell. I thought Gabe wanted me to ride him, but he showed me how wrong I was when he reached down and coated my dick with the lube. I looked at him in surprise.

“I want to feel you come inside me first then I want you to ride my cock until I explode,” Gabe said. I thought it was sexy as fuck when he told me exactly what he wanted, even sexier when he spread his legs wide, exposing his hole to me. I reached for the lube, but Gabe stopped me. “I want just enough to ease penetration.”

I growled because that was exactly how I liked it too—enough oil to ease the way, but not so much it took away the sting of penetration. I positioned myself between Gabe’s thighs but didn’t push in right away like some animal. I circled his pucker with the head of my dick to tease and entice him. Gabe’s eyes lost their focus, and he gyrated his hips up and down in anticipation of being filled. I pressed my lips to his when I pushed inside him, capturing Gabe’s gasp as we truly became one.

I didn’t expect sex to feel that much different once the thin layer of latex was gone, but I was so wrong. Gabe’s heat and the tightness of his clench were a lot more intense as I moved slowly in and out of him. I broke our kiss to look into his eyes; the heat I saw there sent an electric current to my balls. I dug my knees into the mattress and changed my angle so I could peg his prostate and make it as good for him as I could while I lasted, which I didn’t think would be long. I already felt the telltale signs of my approaching orgasm. My muscles tightened and my skin felt like it was a few sizes too small to fit my body.

Gabe gripped my hair in a tight fist. “Fuck me, Josh. Fill me.”

I slammed into him gracelessly, rutting inside him as my body demanded. I didn’t close my eyes; I wanted my gaze locked with his when I spilled inside him for the first time.

“That’s it, baby. Fuck me hard. I want it all.” Gabe’s dirty mouth snapped what little control I had left and I came hard inside him. Gabe reached between us and slicked his cock for me while I sucked air into my lungs. “My turn,” he demanded hungrily.

I saw how swollen and angry his cock looked and knew just what he needed to feel better. I eased my dick from Gabe’s ass and repositioned myself to straddle him. Penetration after an orgasm wasn’t usually the most comfortable experience, but I was still semi-hard and aroused when I eased down onto his erection.

I placed my hands on Gabe’s pecs then raised and lowered myself slowly a few times until I was completely stretched and ready to fuck. Damn, his dick felt so good, and my nerve-laden hole sucked him in greedily as I rode him. Gabe’s body shook beneath mine, and his hands gripped my hips tight while I used my inner thigh muscles to work myself up and down.

“Spread your legs wider; I want to see you,” Gabe growled. “Fuck!” he yelled when I lifted my arms above my head and lost myself in the moment. “So damn sexy,” Gabe said before he traced his finger over my puckered opening where it stretched around his dick.

“I want to make it so good for you, baby,” I told him.

Gabe’s response was to grab me by the waist and roll me over until my calves were propped up on his shoulders. “Any better and my heart would explode.” Then he began to pound me as Suave Gabe turned into Caveman Gabe. He fucked me until I was fully erect and coming a second time before he released inside me. I thought I knew all of Gabe’s sex sounds, but I’d never heard the raw, animalistic ones he made as my ass milked every hot drop of his seed.

He lowered my legs and collapsed on top of me when the last quake left his body. His weight pinned me to the mattress and made it hard for me to breathe, but I didn’t care. The storm had descended on us at some point during lovemaking. The wind thrashed outside my bedroom window, rain danced on my metal roof, and the lightning split the darkness seconds before the world shook and rolled from the loud, roaring thunder, not unlike the way Gabe looked the moment that his climax tore through him.

Gabe eased off me and said, “Let’s get cleaned up before…” The lights flickered a few times and went out just then as if mother nature wanted to prove to us that she was always in charge. “We’ll improvise,” he said good-naturedly before he gave me a quick kiss and rolled off the bed.