Chapter 16

“I guess he inspired me. I didn’t start experimenting until after he’d gone, and he was much more exaggerated than I’ve ever been. But he opened my eyes to other possibilities.”

Luca needed courage for the next part, so he tilted his head up and looked into Gus’s eyes. His husband seemed to understand because Gus leaned in and took Luca’s lips in a searing kiss. There was nothing gentle about it, only raw passion and an insistent tongue. Gus threw his leg over Luca’s hips and rubbed against him.

Luca broke the kiss when his lungs burned with oxygen deprivation, and they both gasped and breathed heavily. Luca touched his own lips, wondering if they were as red and puffy as they felt.

“Wow,” he whispered.

Gus was usually tender and loving and didn’t show this animalistic side often. What had triggered it now?