After he gave me that, he tore his mouth from mine and thrust once more, hard and deep, while he moved to press his forehead into the side of my neck.
I felt it leave him as it left me and I began stroking him, running the tips of my fingers through his hair, tracing the defined lines of the muscles of his back, the rest of me unmoving.
Merry’s arms gave me a powerful squeeze before he shifted to kiss my neck and then lifted his head.
He looked into my eyes.
I looked into his.
I kept stroking.
Merry took one arm from around me, wrapped his hand around my neck, and moved his thumb along my throat, up, sweeping it over my jaw, up, across my cheek, then over my lips where he left it gliding, back and forth, back and forth. A gentler kind of claiming, even though there was nothing left of me to be claimed.
If he wanted me, I belonged to Garrett Merrick.
All of me.
We stayed this way a long time. No words.
But they weren’t needed. For once in my life, I hoped, I prayed, I dreamed that I was getting it right and this was what it seemed to be.
Without warning, but doing it gently, he slid out and rolled off, shifting me as he did so I was on my side.
He disengaged just as slowly, my legs automatically closing as they lost purchase on his hips.
He was at the side of the bed, through all this never losing eye contact with me. He lost it only when his gaze swept the length of me.
When it came back, he said quietly, “Don’t move.”
I nodded.
He got out of bed and walked to one of the three doors in the room.
The light went on inside it as he disappeared and I saw it was a bathroom.
He’d told me not to move, but with him gone, I realized I was in Garrett Merrick’s bedroom, so I took that opportunity to quickly look around.
From what I’d seen of the rest of his pad, I wasn’t surprised to see not much here either. Two nightstands. Two lamps on them. A tall, six-drawer dresser. A lamp on that. The bed.
On the nightstand that was right in front of me, there was change, crumpled receipts, a used pack of gum, a lighter, and not much else.
Looking over my shoulder to the other one and the dresser, there seemed to be more detritus of this type, an alarm clock, and not much else.
Except there were three trophies on his dresser, but not like they were on display. Like they’d been put there, pushed aside, or shifted when more room was needed. On the top of one was a man standing, rifle to his shoulder, eye to the sight. The top of another trophy that was not quite as tall (but still tall) had another man, same pose, but holding a handgun. The last one that was slightly shorter had a man on his stomach, his rifle aimed.
But that was it.
Just like the rest of his place. Functional and a lot of nothing else.
The one surprise was the furniture. Although there were no prints on the walls, no personality, the furniture in this room was really nice. Fabulous wood that was in a medium stain, not dark, not light. In the drawers on the dresser and nightstands, but in a far more spectacular way with the high headboard, the wood was set in a chevron design that was gorgeous, manly, but it was something I would not object to having for me.
The light went out in the bathroom and I lost interest in Merry’s furniture when I saw Merry making his way back to me.
Yes, the hair on his stomach that pointed to what was not right then a buried treasure (but not long ago it had been a treasure buried in me) was awe-inspiring.
The treasure it was pointed to was just awesome.
Garrett Merrick had a beautiful cock, even now as it was, semi-hard after making love to me.
The length was perhaps just above average.
It was the girth that meant everything.
I lost sight of it, sadly, when the room went dark.
Hold On
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