Chapter 14

When he yawned, a second tremor hit, rattling the room as if trying to shake it apart. Eduard dove back to his pillows. “Fuck. I am notready for this. I haven’t even slept.”

The shaking subsided, leaving in its wake a breathless moment where the world seemed poised for the next tremor. When nothing happened, Eduard closed his eyes and burrowed into his pillow. Dimly he was aware of a dull throb in his balls, the remnants of Reza’s attentions from the night before, and a more insistent pounding in his bladder kept him from falling back to sleep. He tried to ignore it, pressing his cock between his thigh and the mattress as if he could smother it silent, but the more he tried notto think about it, the more awake he grew.