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A pollo thought he must have been mad to admit he loved Lachlan Ironwood to his face.

What had happened to his self-preservation?

Oh, right, he had been kidnapped and forced to focus on what really mattered.

And Lachlan, on top of him, telling him how much he wanted to be in a relationship, a real one? It had made him want to take the risk.

Maybe I've been fighting this too hard?

His dragon snorted in frustration, his equivalent of calling him a dumbass.

Maybe he had been, but he'd had his reasons.

Apollo was still shit scared over the thought that he might actually be able to keep Lachlan, but his dragon wasn't. Now it knew that Lachlan wanted something more than a hookup, it wanted to sink his teeth into his neck and fuck him to pieces.

"Your eyes are glowing so hot right now," Lachlan whispered.

"My dragon wants to do all kinds of naughty things to you, that's why," Apollo replied and patted him on his ridiculously toned butt. "It wants this ass. You shouldn't have said you haven't been topped. Bad idea to tell my dragon you're a back-door virgin."

Lachlan rolled his eyes. "Just because I haven't been topped by someone doesn't mean I'm a back-door virgin. It means that I've never trusted someone to do it other than myself with a toy."

"Shhh, now, it's going to be okay. I'm here." Apollo patted his ass lovingly. "Don't worry, my little virgin. I'm going to take good care of you. I'll get you used to the idea, and then I'm going to rock your world."

"Are you talking to me or my ass?" Lachlan laughed.

"Both. You're lucky I'm into being both a top and a bottom.

" Apollo kissed him and ground his hard dick against Lachlan's.

"And I'm very, very good at both. But tonight, I think you have a promise to fulfil?

Your exact words were that you were going to suck my dick so hard that I see the face of god, I believe. "

Lachlan hummed. "Yeah, that was me. I need you to tell me you love me again first."

Apollo bit his lip, making him hiss. "You'll do as you're told."

"So bossy. Never thought of myself as a sub—" Lachlan began.

"We all need to learn sometime. I'll teach you the secret ways of the switch," Apollo said, pinching his cheek. "You're already doing so well."

"You're such a little shit. Why do I love you again?" Lachlan huffed.

"Because I'm amazing, that's why. How can you resist all this?

" Apollo asked and lifted up his shirt. He didn't have anything on Lachlan's thick abs, but he did okay.

Clearly, Lachlan thought so too, because he pulled the shirt over Apollo's head and ran his hands over his chest and down to the tattoo of his sigil.

"I love this," Lachlan said, shifting down so he could kiss it. "What does it mean?"

Apollo tried to clear the sudden fuzz in his brain. "It's something my brothers and I created. Like a magical vasectomy and a way to ensure we don't pick up any STDS. Not that I have been fucking any girls, gays or theys recently."

Lachlan glanced up at him. "Really? So it wasn't just me suffering?"

"Nope. Not just you. Same awkward boat of not wanting anyone else," Apollo admitted, leaving the part out about his dragon refusing to be into anyone else.

Lachlan scraped his teeth over the sigil, making Apollo's dick jump.

"That makes me ridiculously happy. I'm clean and still have the doctor's results on my phone if you want to see them.

I'll still wear a condom if you want, but it means I'll have to quickly go buy some.

My hunting duffle has lube, but I haven't fucked anyone in so long that I haven't replenished my stock. "

"I can't get pregnant either! I checked with Taranis if Mpreg was a thing. Great news, it's not," Apollo quickly added.

"You asked him that?" Lachlan rested his head against Apollo's stomach, his whole body shaking from laughter. "Gods, I love you so fucking much."

"Not as much as you will when I tell you I want you to fuck me without a condom," he said.

Lachlan stopped laughing and raised his head. "You do?"

"Yeah, I do," Apollo said, his cheeks going red. "I don't want anything between us right now and…"

Lachlan kissed his stomach so tenderly, Apollo's heart flipped. "And this is where you stop talking and let me keep my promise."

"Jokes on you. I never stop talking," he replied.

Lachlan cupped his dick through the soft fabric of his pants, and his words stuttered right out.

Lachlan grinned, way too pleased with himself, but before Apollo could think of a way to sass him, he pulled down his pants and put Apollo's dick in his mouth.

And that was the precise moment he learned that Lachlan Ironwood didn't have a gag reflex.

"Fucking Christ ," Apollo squeaked. He grabbed Lachlan's head just for something to hold onto because his mate was a goddamn throat goat. "Oh, gods. Oh, fuck."

Lachlan looked up at him innocently and sucked. Apollo's hips lifted off the bed, chasing Lachlan's mouth. Lachlan used the lift to stuff a pillow under Apollo's ass to keep him propped up.

"Do you know how to breathe through your ears? What the fuck, Lachie?"

Lachlan's mouth slid off him long enough to say, "I'm clearly not doing it right if you're still talking.

" His big hand wrapped around Apollo's wet dick and stroked him hard.

Apollo made a very unsexy sound in response.

"Hmm, getting there. Don't you come too early, baby.

You told me you liked being edged, so I'm going to need you to hold out until I can get inside of you. "

" Don'tcallmebaby ," Apollo squeaked out in one long rush. Lachlan let go of his dick and moved back. "I take it back. Call me whatever you want. Get back here! Why are you stopping?"

Lachlan patted his leg. "Deep breaths, baby. I'm just getting lube."

"Move faster."

Lachlan did not move faster. He took his sweet ass time as he rummaged in his bag and tossed the bottle of lube on the bed.

"Hurry up, or the mood will be gone," Apollo lied because his dick ached. Everything ached.

Lachlan only chuckled and pulled his pajama bottoms off. Apollo almost swallowed his tongue when he saw all of Lachlan's glorious bulk bare. His dick got even harder, and Lachlan grinned. "I don't think there is ever going to be a risk of the mood being gone between us."

"Are you torturing me because I made you beg before? I'll beg right now if you need to get me back…"

Lachlan leaned down and sucked on one of Apollo's nipples. "This is because I've waited a long time to get you naked, and I need to touch every inch of you."

"I got plenty of inches for you touch right here," Apollo said, pointing at his dick.

"I'll work my way back to it," Lachlan replied, annoyingly calm. He kissed the lines of Apollo's hips and the sensitive insides of his thighs.

Apollo didn't do leisurely sex because it had always felt too personal .

This was feeling too heavy, his heart too full, his fear of losing Lachlan before they could begin too crushing.

Apollo breathed and focused on the sensation that he had fought for so long.

Being with someone he cared about was a vulnerability he had never experienced before.

Lachlan gently savored him, like he didn't want to miss a single quiver or gasp.

Mate , Apollo's dragon growled.

Yes, I know . It was always going to be different with Lachlan. He knew it, and that was why he held out for so long—because loving something always came with the fear of losing it.

"You're so fucking soft and beautiful everywhere," Lachlan said against his hip bone. "I can't get enough of it."

"You're killing me here, Lachie. I thought you loved me," Apollo whimpered because if he didn't do something soon, Apollo was sure he would combust.

"Oh, I do. It's why I'm going to lick and suck you everywhere, open you up so sweetly, and then fuck you so hard that you never want anyone else inside you again," Lachlan replied and sank his teeth into the place he had been so tender with.

Fuccckkkk . Apollo put his hands over his face because this man was too fucking much.

Lachlan kissed his tip before sliding his mouth back over him, and Apollo bit his palms to stop himself from crying out.

Whatever sweet moment Lachlan had been having was over because he licked and sucked like he had a vendetta against his dick.

Apollo didn't hear the lube being opened, but when Lachlan slicked his wet fingers over Apollo's hole, his whole body shook with the effort not to come.

"Hold on," Lachlan said, and Apollo glared at him. "Oh, yeah, that's the Apollo I know and love. So pissy just looking at me." He grinned, slipping a finger inside of him at the same time.

"Lachie..."

"Just keep breathing." Lachlan's other hand wrapped around his dick, holding back the orgasm that was threatening to explode out of him.

Apollo lost time, lost thoughts, lost everything except the slow, glorious agony of Lachlan sucking and teasing. He eased in a second finger and found that sweet spot inside of Apollo that had him crying out.

"Oh, fuck, Lachlan, don't hit that again, or this is going to be all over," he begged. His whole body was feeling oversensitised and pent up and shocky, and he didn't think he could take much more of it.

Lachlan grabbed Apollo's legs and spread his thighs wider to make room for him. Apollo whimpered with the first brush of his cock against him. His heart was going to give out in his chest.

"Golden boy, open your eyes," Lachlan said.

Apollo did and had to bite his tongue so he didn't come just from the sight of Lachlan thrusting his tip gently inside of him.

"Just do it, Lachie. I won't break," he begged.

"But I might," Lachlan replied. He brushed Apollo's sweaty curls back from his face and kissed him.