...Cooper pointed to a clearing that seemed to be at the exact center of the garden. They spread out one of the blankets, and Alvix flopped down on his back, sighing and staring at the sky. Cooper joined him and covered both of them with the other blanket.

Surprise hit him when Cooper reached out and snagged him, tucking him tight to Cooper’s side. He flung his arm over Cooper’s stomach and savored the coolness seeping into his body from the man’s titanium skin.

The silence falling over them wasn’t oppressive or uncomfortable. It lulled Alvix into a light doze. The steady beat of Cooper’s heart thrummed through Alvix’s body and settled in his groin, making it throb in a matching rhythm.

He slipped his hand under the hem of Cooper’s T-shirt, stroking along the waistband of the man’s pants. Cooper’s muscles twitched, but he didn’t stop Alvix from touching him. He plucked at the buttons keeping Cooper under wraps. The halt he was expecting came when Cooper covered his hand with his own large one.

“You don’t have to do anything,” Cooper reassured him.

Pushing up on one elbow, Alvix looked down into Cooper’s silver eyes and nodded. “I know, but I want to.”

Cooper cradled his face with his free hand. “Are you sure? I know what the Tongassian did to you. I don’t want you to have any flashbacks or anything like that. I’d like this to be a good memory for you.”

Alvix nuzzled into Cooper’s palm for a moment before smiling. “Nothing about you will remind me of him. His touch burned me. Your skin soothes me. He made me scream with pain. I’ll scream with pleasure because of you.”

Whatever Cooper saw in Alvix’s face must have convinced him that Alvix meant every word he said. He stretched his hands over his head and grinned up at Alvix. “Then I’m all yours.”

For tonight at least, Alvix’s inner voice reminded him and he mentally shrugged. He wasn’t looking for anything more than a moment in time. Forever didn’t exist in his vocabulary or his life. People had always walked away from him and never looked back.

But Cooper came back for you. That was true as far as it went. Cooper returned for him out of obligation and that silly ingrained honor code. While Alvix appreciated the rescue, he wasn’t stupid enough to think it meant anything more than payment for a debt owed.

He gave himself a shake. The night was waning and he couldn’t chance Cooper changing his mind when the sun rose.

His fingers fumbled at the buttons at Cooper’s groin. As much as he wanted to touch all of Cooper’s dark, smooth body, he wanted to feel the man’s prick in his mouth. It was a burning desire to drink Cooper’s seed, tasting the familiar salty bitterness of cum flavored with Cooper’s own special essence.

Cooper shivered as the cool night air hit his hard cock when Alvix revealed it to the darkness. Alvix hummed and ran his finger down the length of it.

“Very pretty,” he murmured.

A choked laugh came from Cooper. “Will you think it’s pretty when it’s like the rest of me?”

“Well, considering I get hard the moment I see you, I don’t think you have anything to worry about in that department.” He fisted Cooper’s shaft and pumped.

“Ah.” Cooper arched off the ground.

Alvix pushed the top blanket off them and slid down to sprawl between Cooper’s spread thighs. He licked the spongy head of Cooper’s cock, letting the man’s pre-cum coat his tongue. He kept stroking with one hand, while fondling Cooper’s heavy balls in the other hand. His own erection pressed against the stiff fabric of his pants, informing Alvix it wouldn’t be long after Cooper came that Alvix would spill his seed as well.