Fuck it. Who was Helio fooling with his resistance? There was no one here but Benny, and what did Benny care for Helio’s pride?
Helio stripped his clothes off and stepped into the water.
As he went deeper and made his presence known, Benny stopped midstroke, standing upright, the water chest-deep on him. “You’re swimming with me?” he asked with obvious delight. “Awesome!”
The moon was full—it was always full here, not that Benny had noticed—and the simple pleasure on his face was clear as day.
As was the lustful look as his eyes dipped below the water. “Are you…naked?” Benny licked his lips—as unsubtle as he could possibly be—then pulled his gaze back up to Helio’s face with obvious difficulty. “Awesome,” he repeated, a bit quieter this time.
“Come here, Benny,” Helio commanded, his voice soft.
Benny stepped closer in the water, staying just out of arm’s reach in a move that could have been deliberately tantalizing but was most likely completely innocent. Respecting Helio’s space.
“Repeat what you told me earlier.”
Benny’s brow furrowed. “Um…the water’s beautiful tonight?”
Helio scoffed. “Before that. What you told me earlier today.”
“Oh. Um…” Benny’s eyes widened in realization. “Oh. That if you wanted an arrangement, I’d be down with that.”
“And you’d be…,” Helio prompted, needing to hear it again.
“Grateful,” Benny finished for him with enthusiasm. He smiled happily. “Yeah, I’d owe you one. I already owe you everything, man.”
It was too much. Helio shut his eyes, trying to rein in the surge ofwantthose words brought up. “That’s enough,” he bit out, his voice rougher than it should have been. “Comehere, Benny.”
As soon as Benny was close enough, Helio grabbed him by the backs of the thighs, wrapping Benny’s legs around his waist. Benny hooked his arms obediently around Helio’s neck, and Helio let out a sigh of relief at the contact.
Benny’s skin was soft against his in the water, his cock already hardening, his bottom sliding against Helio’s own length, which had filled rapidly at Benny’s insistence on “owing him everything.”
It felt…perfect.Right.Why shouldn’t Helio touch Benny? Benny was his, chained to Helio by multiple unwitting bargains. His to torment or plunder. It was Helio’s choice. It always had been. He’d let himself forget.
He wouldn’t let himself forget again.
“Is this okay?” Benny asked. “I’m pretty heavy.”
Helio tsked. “It’s salt water, Benny. You weigh nothing at the moment.” Not that it would matter if he did, considering Helio’s substantial fae strength.
“Oh. Right.” Benny grinned at him sheepishly, squirming in his arms, his cock rubbing against Helio’s stomach. “Also, I’m probably gonna come, like, super fast, if you touch me. You’re really hot. And I’ve been…” He trailed off.
“Horny,” Helio finished for him.
Benny nodded seriously. “Yeah. Really horny.”
“Poor baby,” Helio crooned, releasing his hold on Benny’s hips to caress his face, pleased beyond measure when Benny kept his legs wrapped tightly around him. “Have you been yearning for my touch?”
“Yeah.” Benny nodded again. “That’s a good word.Yearning.”
“And what will you give me?” Helio asked, unable to help himself. His hands found their way back down to those pale globes that had been tormenting him, squeezing hard. “To put a stop to it.”
“I don’t have much,” Benny told him with a gasp, beginning to move his hips in Helio’s hold, rutting in earnest.
Helio clamped his hands tighter, halting his movement. “Your devotion?” he asked.
“Sure,” Benny said on a sigh. So easy. So giving.
“Your loyalty?” Helio pressed.
