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“I know what I like. What I want.”

“And what do you want?” he asked, aware he didn’t know the man in front of him, only the boy he used to be. 

“I was so stupid, Rome—” He tightened his grip on Max’s throat, silencing the words before they fell out of his mouth. 

“That wasn’t what I asked.” 

Over his cock, he worked their hands tighter and faster, knowing he couldn’t take much more of Max’s touch.

“What did you think about? When you thought about me?” 

“Look at me.” He forced his own eyes open in time to catch Max’s heady stare. “At first, I pretended they were you.”

Max’s lashes fluttered, but he kept his stare locked on Rome. 

“I wouldn’t touch them because no one felt like you.” He flexed his grip around Max’s hand, twisting around the flared head of his dick before dragging their hands back down to the base. “I didn’t want to kiss. I hated blow jobs.”

“Why?” 

“Because no one has ever sucked my cock as good as you,” he admitted.

“I didn’t even know what I was doing back then.” Max’s mouth twitched in the corner, a little proud and a little amused. Rome’s balls churned, tingling with the heat of his impending orgasm. Max’s pants were still around his ankles and precum smeared across the top of his hand while he used Max’s hand to jack himself off. 

“That’s what was so good about it.” He leaned in so his mouth pressed against Max’s ear. “It was careless. Messy. You weren’t trying to impress anyone.”

“I just wanted you to come,” Max whispered.

“Please stop talking.” 

“Rome.”

“Stop,” he hissed, shifting his grip on Max’s throat upward. He fanned his fingers out and up until the heel of his palm rested on Max’s chin and his fingers spread across his face like a spider. He shoved Max’s head against the wall, forcing his neck up and his stare toward the ceiling. He couldn’t look at him any longer, couldn’t listen to the words fall off his tongue like drops of honey.

His orgasm was close, it was right there, but he couldn’t. It was too much after too long, and with a strangled cry, he released Max’s hand. Max didn’t stop, jacking him twice more before he realized Rome had let go and blessedly—for once—doing what he’d been told. Max echoed his desperate shout and released Rome’s cock, hand falling to his side. His breath puffed hot and needy against Rome’s palm and Rome dug his fingers into Max’s cheeks until the tension leaked out of him and he stepped away.

Both of their cocks bobbed hard and steady, pointing toward each other like they were true north, and Rome’s chest heaved as he tried to catch his breath. Max didn’t move, his throat still on display and his face turned toward the ceiling where Rome had left him.

“I can’t do this with you,” he mumbled. “Not again.” 

It would have been too easy to fall back into the trap of loving Max. Of fucking him, of wanting him, of getting him off. The one thing he’d wanted for his entire adult life, even though he’d never admitted it out loud, and it was right there. Max was right there, begging to get him off, begging to be kissed and fucked and whatever else Rome would have wanted to do. But he knew a week was all they had and a week wouldn’t be enough. He knew better than to think he could play with his greatest dream and his first love for four days and let him walk away again. Rome wouldn’t make it out unscathed.

Though if he were being honest…

It was already too late. 

“Just once more,” Max whispered.

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With over two dozen published romances to her name, Kate Hawthorne has built a recognizable brand around telling emotional stories that pack a figurative (and sometimes literal) punch.

Existing on a steady diet of wine and coffee, Kate spends her days dreaming up angsty stories full of heat, kink, and heart. Kate now lives in Louisville, where she writes romance, reads romance, and hides from the humidity.

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