The Slave (Free Men Book 1) by Aaron Kate

Author:Aaron, Kate [Aaron, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Croft House
Published: 2014-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

The next morning I woke with Kai in my arms. The sensation was so unfamiliar, yet one I had longed for so long to experience, that I lay momentarily stunned, limbs locked. The man sleeping beside me felt, for the briefest of seconds, like the most precious thing in the world. He seemed so small, so defenceless, so trusting, I was overcome by the urge to protect him. I’d have fought Master himself to keep Kai safe.

The feeling subsided almost as quickly as it arose, leaving a wash of tenderness and affection in its wake. I tightened my arms around him, buried my nose in the short spikes of his hair, and kissed the top of his shorn head. Kai stirred and mumbled nonsense, still more asleep than awake. My lips curved in an involuntary smile.

“Tam?”

Bleary-eyed and sleepy, he was adorable. I thumbed the crust from his eyes and petted him, recalling my vulnerability the day after Master had taken my virginity. All the lore and rumours I had heard led me to believe having sex made a boy into a man, but I had never felt more unmanned in my life. I hadn’t been prepared for the sheer intimacy of the act, or the depth of my own devotion to the man who now knew my body better than any other, myself included.

“Yes, Kai?”

“We, uh, we should move.”

He wriggled half-heartedly in my arms, but stilled the second I tightened my grip.

“It’s early yet,” I soothed.

We’d fallen asleep quickly the previous night—or he had, at least, turning his back and curling into a tight ball beside me, our skin not quite touching. I’d been on my side facing him, fingertips splayed across the mattress between us, longing to close the distance. Master at least let me cuddle with him before I returned to my bed. As Kai’s breaths deepened into the rhythm of sleep, I’d crept closer, tentatively stroking the satiny skin of his back; explored the deep groove of his spine and the soft, downy dimples above his buttocks, until I too eventually succumbed and slept.

Now we were both awake, the first sun barely risen over the horizon, tinting the grimy cream stones of his bare chamber walls a soft orange-peach, and we had time yet before we were expected to present for Master at breakfast. I wanted to savour the morning, linger in Kai’s warm bed and renew the connection we had forged so unexpectedly during the night. It was for my own sake as much as Kai’s that I kissed his temples and snuggled against his lightly trembling body.

That we had succumbed and become lovers was not surprising, given the pressure Master was putting us under, but at the moment of initiation, I’d felt nothing save my own curiosity and desire. We were at but the barest cusp of all the things we could do together, and my mind raced with wicked thoughts of what else I could show him.

I had been wrong, thinking we could share sex without feeling, without love.

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