STORY EXCERPT

Sighing heavily, Thomas gave up trying to start the damn thing and slid from his car, heading back toward the rec center. He was going to have to call Maverick and see if the man could send someone to give him a lift. He would have to call Mark in the morning about his car.

It was a big hassle to catch a ride, but Thomas had no choice.

“Car trouble?”

Thomas spun around to see a very nice-looking man sitting in his truck. The window was rolled down, and his arm was resting on the window frame. And what a nice arm it was. The skin was tanned with sprinkles of black hair dusted over the arm.

“Yes.” Thomas nodded, placing his hand on the hood as his eyes swept over the man’s face. Damn if he wasn’t the finest thing Thomas had ever seen. “Do you know anything about cars?”

Do you have to sound like a damsel in distress?

The man eased out of the truck and closed the door, and Thomas nearly swallowed his tongue. The man was simply gorgeous! His steel-grey eyes flickered over Thomas, as if assessing him from head to toe. Thomas fought the shiver that racked his body.

“I know a thing or two,” the man said as he walked over to Thomas’s car. The walk was sleek, loose-limbed, and good lord almighty, Thomas was going to melt on the spot. Did men really come in that size?

Of course they do. Look at the Lakelands and the men who live with Maverick.

Thomas pushed the thought aside. He didn’t care about any other man but the one standing next to him making his heart race out of control.

“I’m Tyler,” the man said as he stuck out a scarred and tanned hand. As soon as their hands touched, Thomas felt a shiver of electricity shoot through his body.

Thomas was sweating bullets as he shook the man’s hand, pumping it a few times, and then reluctantly let it go. The shake was firm, but not overbearing. Thomas could just imagine what those hands would feel like caressing his body.

Tyler smiled at Thomas, and Thomas just knew he was going to pass out. The smile was charming, even boyish, although he could tell Tyler wasn’t that young.

That’s the feeling I was looking for. The zing. The flare!

“I’m Thomas,” he remembered to say as he stood there with a big goofy grin on his face. He mentally chastised himself for acting like a damn teenager. Thomas was older and more experienced than one of the young men running around Brac Village, and he needed to act like it. Tyler was going to think he was an idiot.

“Where are your keys?” Tyler asked in a slow drawl that made Thomas want to beg the man to speak his name with that same southern inflection.

“My what?”

“Keys.”

Oh. Keys. Right. Thomas pulled the set of keys from his pocket, handing them over to Tyler, shivering when his fingers touched the palm of Tyler’s hand.

“Let’s see what the problem is.” Tyler let the seat back and then climbed into Thomas’s Honda. The car suddenly looked too damn small with Tyler sitting in the driver’s seat.

Tyler turned the key, but nothing happened. He next reached down and grabbed the lever and popped the hood. Thomas took a step back as Tyler crawled out of the car.

He followed the man around to the front of the car and glanced down at the engine when Tyler lifted the hood.

Thomas had no clue what he was looking at, but damn if standing next to the man wasn’t thrilling.

“I think your alternator is shot.”

“My what?”

The chuckle Tyler gave him was deep, warm, and rich, and the sound slid down Thomas’s body and wrapped around his groin. His cock instantly hardened at the sensual sound. Tyler’s grey eyes slid Thomas’s way. A heated look glimmered in them.

“I guess I’ll be giving you a ride,” Tyler said as he let the hood fall from his hands, the sound making Thomas jump slightly.

“It can’t be fixed?” Thomas asked, wondering if it was a smart move to take a ride from a stranger—albeit a very handsome stranger.

“Not without a new alternator.” Tyler handed Thomas his keys back. “But I assure you, you are very safe with me.”

That was an odd thing to say. Thomas glanced past Tyler and looked toward town, wondering who he could call at this late hour. He once again thought of calling Maverick, but he didn’t want to disturb the mayor because his car wouldn’t start.

Okay, so he was coming up with excuses not to call Maverick so this handsome devil could give him a ride.

“I live about twenty minutes from town,” Thomas replied. “Is that any bother?”

“None at all,” Tyler said as he walked to the passenger side and opened the door for Thomas to get in.

Thomas hesitated for a moment and then climbed inside. He snapped his seat belt into place, watching Tyler walk around the truck.

Please don’t let him be a crazy person.

Tyler climbed into the driver’s side and then glanced over at Thomas. His broad shoulders turned as the man asked, “Where to?”

Thomas gave Tyler the directions to his home, crossing his fingers that he wasn’t going to regret this.

ADULT EXCERPT

Tyler grinned and Thomas forgot all about wolves and just meeting the man. He even forgot about why he was so scared. All he wanted was for Tyler to kiss him with those scrumptious lips.

And Thomas got his wish.

Tyler crushed his mouth to Thomas, making Thomas taste the peppermint that lingered on Tyler’s tongue. He also tasted the heat and passion in the kiss. Tyler was playing for keeps.

Thomas yelped when Tyler pulled him down from the headboard with one damn hand. One hand! It was such a turn-on that Thomas immediately spread his legs. He was realizing that with Tyler, Thomas was becoming a wanton slut and couldn’t care in the least. All he wanted right now was Tyler’s thick and muscular body wrapped around him.

“I want to fuck you, Thomas. I want to sink my cock deep in your ass and make you mine.”

Okay. He was all for that.

Tylerleisurely kissed his way up the side of Thomas’s throat and then back down the other side until he reached Thomas’s throat. The tip of his tongue lingered around Thomas’s Adam’s apple, teasing it gently with his lips as the strong man moaned. Tyler was draped over him, his cock digging into Thomas’s stomach, and the moisture leaking onto his abdomen only reminding Thomas that he had one sexy-ass man lying above him.

This was insane. This was crazy. But Thomas couldn’t find it in himself to voice a protest. He was too busy shivering from Tyler’s exploration.

“You have too many clothes on, Thomas.”

That he did.

Thomas hitched his hips as Tyler unsnapped his pants and pulled them down, tossing them aside.

“Fucking perfect.”

“Thanks,” Thomas replied as he felt a blush creep over his neck and face.

Tyler leaned forward, taking the tip of Thomas’s cock into his mouth as his hand ran up and down Thomas’s legs, his fingernails scraping along Thomas’s skin.

Tyler’s right hand reached down and played with Thomas’s ankles as he took Thomas’s cock to the back of his throat. His left hand ran up the back of Thomas’s thigh, grabbing his ass as he sucked Thomas off.

“Tyler!” Thomas’s hands ran through Tyler’s hair as he groaned.

Tyler backed off, allowing Thomas’s cock to slip from between his lips. “Put your legs on my shoulders.” Tyler helped Thomas until he was straddling the man’s face. Gods, Thomas had never felt anything so damn good in his life!

Tyler growled and flipped Thomas to his stomach. He then wrapped his arm around Thomas’s waist, and hauled Thomas’s ass into the air. Tyler was back at Thomas, only this time he was licking his ass like a dying man. Thomas shouted, his fingers curling into the blanket as Tyler speared two fingers into Thomas’s ass.

“Fuck,” Thomas panted, the word too garbled and quiet to be heard. Tyler was going to be the death of him. He had never had anyone treat him like this. Thomas’s sex life, sadly, lacked any passion or heat. But Tyler was changing that.

Boy was he changing that.

Tyler leaned further down, sucking Thomas’s sac into his mouth. If the man was trying to convince Thomas that he was a keeper, he was doing a damn fine job of it.

“Mine,” Tyler grunted as he wiggled his fingers in Thomas’s ass. “All mine.”

His voice had gone husky and low, making Thomas shiver on all fours. He wanted to feel muscles, sweat, and the agony of pleasure moving behind him as Tyler fucked him into the headboard.

He wanted Tyler inside of him!

“Tyler.”

“Not yet, hon.” Tyler followed his words up with one long lick down Thomas’s crease.

“When?” Thomas shouted. He wasn’t sure he could take much more torture from this gorgeous man. He wanted to feel Tyler pounding into his flesh.

Tyler’s hand slipped from Thomas’s hip to encircle his cock, giving it a light squeeze as he bathed Thomas’s ass with his tongue. He was stroking Thomas’s cock slowly, driving him insane.

“You’re going to make me come,” Thomas warned.

Tyler’s fingers slipped down to the base of Thomas’s cock, gripping and stopping his orgasm from exploding.

Never, ever, in his life had Thomas been licked so thoroughly. Hell, he had never been licked, period, and he found that he loved feeling Tyler’s tongue on his ass, in his ass, and all around his ass.

The man swirled his tongue around Thomas’s filled hole and then delved the appendage in next to his fingers, making Thomas rise up to his toes.

“Down, boy,” Tyler instructed as he leaned back. “I’m done torturing your ass with my tongue. Now it’s time to pleasure it with my cock.”