The Playboy Doctor Swore Off Love, Then His Best Friend Claimed Him novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: The Rule About Mouths

On the third night Damon was waiting in the kitchen with the lights on and a carton of cold lo mein.

He had a plan.

It had been a very bad plan on the second night, too.

On the second night Elias had put him on his knees on the living room rug and made him come twice.

He had used a hand and a dirty promise, and he had gone home without kissing him once.

Damon had set the rule himself.

Damon had been furious about it for twenty-six hours.

At midnight the key turned.

Elias came in, put his keys in the bowl by the door, and stopped when he saw the carton.

"You ate."

"You said don't eat before. It's after." Damon pointed with his chopsticks. "Sit."

"Why?"

"Because I said so."

A flicker of interest crossed Elias's face.

He pulled out a stool at the island, sat, and looked at Damon from under his brows.

"You have a plan," he said.

"I have an objective."

"Which is?"

"To prove you aren't running this." Damon put the carton down. "You keep your hands to yourself. I'm doing it tonight."

"Doing what?"

Damon didn't answer.

He came around the island and stood between Elias's knees, and Elias tipped his head back to keep looking at him.

This close Damon could smell him, soap and starch and warm skin.

He could see the small healing line in his lip.

He could not stop looking at it.

"Rule one," Elias said softly. "No kissing. You wrote it. I'm following it."

"I know what I wrote."

"I haven't touched your mouth in two days," Elias said. "It's been a discipline."

"You're enjoying it."

"Immensely."

Damon took Elias's face in both hands.

He did not decide to do it.

He found his thumbs along Elias's cheekbones, and his mouth closing the last inch, and then he was kissing him.

It was nothing like the study.

In the study it had been Elias taking.

This time Damon went in slowly, almost carefully.

He tasted the soft split in that lip with the tip of his tongue.

The whole broad body under his hands went motionless.

Elias did not move.

Elias did not breathe.

Then he made a sound deep in his chest, rough and helpless, and his hands came up and gripped Damon's waist hard.

Damon bit down.

Elias groaned into his mouth and kissed him back, open and deep and hungry, and the kitchen tilted.

When they broke apart Damon's lips felt swollen.

"Rule one," Elias said unsteadily.

"Shut up, Eli."

It was out before he thought, and this time he didn't bite it back.

Elias went still again, differently.

His hands tightened on Damon's waist until it almost hurt.

"Say it again," he said.

"No."

"Damon," Elias said.

"I said I was running this."

Damon dropped to his knees on the tile.

It was a sloppy decision and he knew it.

He had never done this to a man, and he had a surgeon's pride, which hated going into anything without a plan.

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