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.“I think he just gave us his blessing to, uh…” He let his eyes drag slowly down Luke’s body and then back up again.“Well, I’m thinkin’ you can probably guess at what he meant.”Taking a fast look around the small, crowded room and the lack of available exits, Luke swallowed hard and said firmly, “I didn’t come back with you for that.” He gritted his teeth when Cody tilted a disbelieving eyebrow.“I’m here because it makes sense for none of us to be alone, and…”“Luke.” Cody’s voice was low and rough with tension.“You came back here for that.We both did.I still want you, and I think you still want me, too.” His jaw flexed when Luke shook his head in denial and added, “Despite you tellin’ yourself you don’t.” He moved closer, watching with an alertness that betrayed the casual way he held his body.“I think you wanted this just as much as I did right from the minute I walked in on you in that room.All chained up and nowhere to go.”“Don’t flatter yourself.” Luke stared back at him, defiant and mocking.“I was mainly thinking ‘Get me the fuck out of here.’” His mouth flickered in a cold smile.“Funnily enough, exactly what I’m thinkin’ now.This was a mistake.I’m outta here.”Planting himself firmly in front of the door and making Luke snarl with anger, Cody said, “Not gonna happen.You think that Mike and Tom aren’t gonna be doin’ the exact same thing? Or Chris and Rudy?”Momentarily distracted, Luke’s face creased in a disgusted scowl.“They’d better not be.Not in front of my sister!”Cody blinked and then laughed.“I don’t think they’re gonna be askin’ them to watch, Luke.My sister’s there, too, remember?” He took a step closer, arms spreading slightly in anticipation when Luke tensed.“I wanna hear you say it.You owe me that much.”Expression flickering uncertainly, Luke said, “You want to hear me say what? And I don’t owe you a damn thing!”“Yeah, you do.” Cody came closer, herding Luke back an unwilling step with his body and increasing proximity.“You’ve lied to me for ten damn years, and I want to hear you say that.I want you to admit you didn’t want me to go.That you didn’t want us to come apart the way we did.”Luke took another step back, cursing when he bumped off the back of a chair and stumbled into the wall.“Cody, knock it off.This isn’t funny.” He tried to shove away from the wall, cursed again when he realized that if he went forward he’d be walking right into Cody’s arms, and jerked back into the wall again.“Cody, I mean it, you lay a fuckin’ hand on me, and I’ll…”Cody slammed his hands against the wall on either side of Luke’s head and leaned in close, lips curled in derision.“You’ll what? Tell me, Luke, what are you gonna do? Shove me off you? Tell me you’ve been screwin’ around on me again? Tell me that you don’t want me?” He stumbled when Luke shoved him away and then came back, his hands punching against the wall and his hips slamming against Luke’s cruelly.“Go on, lie to me again.”“Son of a bitch.” Luke struck out, his fist glancing awkwardly off the side of Cody’s torso.“Who the hell do you think you are?”Grunting with the impact, Cody pulled back and then grabbed for Luke’s arm and yanking him forward and off balance before using his momentum against him and spinning him round to push him face-first up against the wall.“Lie to me.”Luke gasped for breath and tried to push back and away, his face pressed against the wall, and slightly dazedly he noted that it was still the same forget-me-not pattern that had hung there ever since the summer he had turned thirteen and they had spent two weeks of their break helping Rudy’s indulgent, and slightly exasperated, mother redecorate the home she shared with her son.His eyes fixed on the strip, tucked mostly out of sight behind the bookcase in the corner, that had been hung upside down because Mike and Tom had been goofing around and not paying attention to what they were doing.“Cody, let me go.” He bucked again.“Cody.”“No.” Shaking, furious, and wanting Luke more than he could ever remember wanting him in all their history together, Cody bent his head and dragged his open mouth up the side of Luke’s straining neck.“Tell me.”“Fine.Fine.” Furious, Luke hissed, “I didn’t want you to go, okay? I wanted you to stay, and I wanted us to be together.It damn near broke me when you left, and I haven’t been able to forget you since.You happy now? That what you wanted?”“It’ll do for now.” Cody pulled back far enough to flip Luke around against the wall to face him once again and stared down into his wild green eyes.“Now tell me you want this still.”Luke swallowed hard, unable to look away from the hazel eyes staring into his.“What difference will it make? You’re not stickin’ around.When this is over, you’ll be…”“That doesn’t matter.” Cody wrapped the fingers of one hand around Luke’s throat, feeling the pulse there throbbing under his touch.“That’s not now.It’s not tonight.” He tightened his grip when Luke would have turned his head away, forcing the smaller man to keep eye contact and pleaded, “Tell me you want me now.If you say you don’t, I swear I’ll back off and I won’t lay another hand on you but if you feel anything for me, Luke, I’m beggin’ you here, just once, to be honest with me.Just give me this one thing.”For long moments it looked like Luke would still refuse, still deny the heat between them, and then abruptly he sagged, all the fight going out of him.“Jesus…yeah, okay? Yes, I still want you.” He swallowed hard, skin and muscle flexing under Cody’s hold.“You happy? I still want you.”“Then let that be enough, just for tonight.” Relaxing the hold he had on Luke’s throat a minuscule amount, Cody let his hand slip around to grip the back of Luke’s tension-damp neck.“Don’t think about anything else, Luke.Just come to bed with me tonight.We can sort everything else out tomorrow.”Luke dragged his tongue over dry lips, his eyes drifting half closed when Cody rubbed his fingers against the nape of his neck, shuddering at the hot pants of air playing across his face when Cody made his impassioned plea [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]