Love Me Like A Rock Read Online Free Page A

gone through plenty of phases of thinking he was over Vinnie, at last, but they never lasted. Every time Vinnie crooked a tipsy finger at him or simply headed back to his own room after slew of scathing comments meant to push Austin’s top buttons, Austin fell in line like an eager puppy. The next time that happened, Austin was putting Vinnie face down, ass up, and then jerking himself off all over Vinnie without returning the favor. Leaving Vinnie hanging sexually would make up for him leaving Austin hanging in every other way.
    His dick was certainly happy with the change of imagery though, subbing in Sean’s shorter, wider body for Vinnie’s tall, muscular one and voting yes.
    Austin dragged his eyes away from the drape of Sean’s robe over his furred chest. The silence of the studio swelled between them, surging outward to fill the room, empty now of all the other people.
    They were alone in the room.
    Alone in the room. Maybe alone in the building, given that it was after nine p.m. and the only people roaming around the building at this hour had either been here for the session or were pulling all-nighters.
    Pretty early in the semester to have a lot of late-night action in the studio.
    Austin didn’t let himself think about why it could possibly matter that the building probably only held a handful of uber-committed students.
    He cleared his throat. “I can get the lights. Get ready to lock up. If you want to change.”
    Without looking at Sean again, because damn, that guy was distracting, he turned and headed blindly to the door. But maybe his ability to hear had been compromised by the sudden rush of blood to his dick, because after he flicked off most of the lights and turned around, he jumped at the sight of Sean right behind him.
    His dick pulsed when Sean smiled. “It’s crazy dark in here with the lights off.”
    “You scared?” He tried to keep his voice to a tease, but it still sounded thick and throaty.
    “Not scared. Just worried I’ll trip over something on my way back to my stuff. Show me the way?”
    There was nothing that appealed faster to Austin’s, well…everything, than someone who asked him to be in charge.
    He’s just talking about not breaking his neck in the dark, asshole. Not fucking.
    But maybe Sean could be talking about fucking.
    Austin didn’t need to lead in bed. Not always.
    Most of the time.
    He was pretty comfortable being versatile, but some guys—guys who saw him as little and cute—brought the top out of him like whoa.
    He’d lived in this studio for most of the past couple years. Starlight through the windows illuminated table edges and other objects to be avoided. The room smelled of charcoal dust and paper and that lingering peppermint smell that followed Sean around. Snagging Sean’s rough hand in his own, Austin tugged him across the floor until they were behind the privacy screen.
    Austin bumped into the stool holding Sean’s things, spilling them to the floor against the wall.
    “You were doing so perfectly up until then. I was starting to wonder if you could see in the dark,” Sean said as he bent down to retrieve his clothes.
    Yeah, he wouldn’t be needing those, Austin decided on the spot.
    “Leave ’em.”
    He tugged Sean up and pressed him against the wall, kissing him with an open mouth until he was dizzy and wanted nothing more than to climb inside Sean’s body and feel him from the inside out.
    The moon shone in through a window directly over them, milky white light fading in and out as clouds passed over it. He slid his hands inside the open front of the robe and pushed it off Sean’s shoulders. Wearing his shirt was suddenly unbearable. He stepped back to strip it off and drop it, stopping at the sight of Sean waiting for him.
    The robe was only barely hanging on to Sean at the curve of his elbows, the belt falling loose at his knees.
    “Guh.”
    Austin didn’t know what it was. Maybe he’d developed some kind of sudden attraction to