Page 5 of Battle for the Top


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I did my best to be subtle about pulling what I needed out of my nearby pants pocket. Since physics denied me the ability to prepare him in that position, I moved between his legs as I kissed down his sculpted body. When he didn’t fight me, I dispensed some lube from the foil packet I had grabbed and took a chance on easing a single finger into him.

He jerked in surprise. “What the hell are you doing?”

“Showing you why you shouldn’t be such a selfish lover.” I snickered at the indignant noise my comment earned.

He propped himself on his elbows to look down at me. His voice went up in pitch with each word as he repeated, “Selfish?Lover?”

“That’s always been your problem.” Since he hadn’t told me to stop, I continued working my finger in and out of him to help him grow accustomed to the sensation. “You get so fixated on winning, you don’t pay attention to what you need to do to be victorious.”

“Excuse me?” He sounded exactly as offended as I had expected.

“You only focus on yourself.” Not wanting to rile him up too much, I began kissing his body as I worked him open. “Relentlessly pursuing your goals, you forget about the importance of details with your opponent.”

He huffed in anger. “What are you talking about?”

“This.” To illustrate my point, I teased one of his nipples with my tongue. It earned me a sharp gasp, but it wasn’t until I toyed with it using my teeth that I got Knightley to jerk under me with a gasp. I did it again to allow me to slide in another slicked finger. Thankfully, his body didn’t resist me. “You get so wrapped up in the competition that you overlook everything else.”

“Stop with the bullshit!”

Switching to the other nipple, I repeated my demonstration, wringing a whimper out of him when I tugged on it. It made me want to see what other erotic sounds I could inspire him to make. “You’re so focused on winning that you forget to play the game. The fun is in the experience, Knight, not the outcome.”

When he protested, I curled my fingers inside him. I couldn’t hold back my glee at his shout of surprise. Shifting positions, I slipped in another finger and continued manipulating that spot while kissing and caressing him all over until he was half-hard again. It was tempting to mark him with a hickey. However, I didn't have the right to claim him yet, even though he had been mine since our first match.

“You’re so obsessed with winning that you fail to defeat me.” I licked along the length of one of his hip bones, then blew on him to raise chills on his skin. “Which brings us to where we are now.”

“Since Idecidednot to jerk you off—not that you gave me achanceto—you’re expecting me to bottom for you?”

I rolled my eyes before calling his bluff. “Oh, please. Touching me there never occurred to you, and you know it.”

He defended himself with a bluster I found endearing. “I wassupposedto be punishing you.”

“Sorry to break it to you, but getting fucked by you isn’t a punishment; it was my goal.” I withdrew my fingers to give him a fair chance to put a stop to things if he objected to what I was desperate to make happen. “Unless you’re not interested.”

“Do you think I would back out now?” He stunned me when he tugged me up for a demanding kiss to hide his embarrassment.

I refused to let him sidetrack us from consent. “I’m serious, Knightley. If you object to this—”

“What Iwantis for you to shut up and get on with it,” he growled. “Stop treating me like some delicate virginal flower.”

It was a surprising answer considering I had never seen him express an attraction to men other than his obsessive interest in me. “But you blush as beautifully as one.” I kissed his flushed cheek. “Plus, unless I’m mistaken, you’ve never been with a man before.”

“Which is why you better make damn sure I enjoy myself if you ever want a chance at doing this again.”

His unexpected answer filled me with joy. “Do you want me to use a condom?”

“No, I want you to get on with it.”

Not wasting any more time, I guided my aching arousal into his tight heat. “Shall I show you just how good losing to me can feel?”

“Who said that I lost?” he snarled, wrapping his legs around my waist in an attempt to control me.

I resisted his efforts, knowing it would hurt him too much to bury myself to the hilt in a single thrust. Instead, I chuckled at his brash claim as I continued easing into his body that yielded to me like his feisty spirit never had. To keep him focused on the good, I feathered touches over any part of him I could reach. I loved how his channel tensed around me whenever I drifted over a sensitive spot. It amused me at how honest Knightley’s physical reactions were compared to his words.

Once I was all the way in, I gave him time to adjust to the sensation of fullness. He tolerated it for a few moments before he groused about it. “Are you planning on staying there, or are you going to move?”

Knowing it was likely his first experience with being penetrated, I started a gentle rhythm that was a stark contrast to the satisfying pounding from earlier.

It caused him to groan in protest. “Seriously? If we’re doing this, then fuck me like you mean it, Kingston.”