Beyond The Music (The Rock Gods Book 7) (25 page)

“Nice try, porn star.”

Chapter Nineteen

Aaron was a man of his word. Once he had Lincoln resting comfortably on the couch, he got the phone to call Lincoln’s neurologist to set up an appointment. While Aaron was on the phone with Dr. Hardy’s receptionist, Lincoln’s phone dinged with a text message from Dagger.

“I hope you’ve been practicing,”
Dagger’s message read.
“I’ve got practice time scheduled for us from Thursday through the weekend, so if you’ve made plans, cancel them.”

“Are you serious?”
Lincoln quickly typed back.

“The tour kicks off in two weeks! Yeah, I’m fucking serious,”
Dagger answered.
“Be at the club at noon on Thursday.”

“I’ll be there,”
Lincoln replied.

“You better be!”

By the time Aaron got off the phone with the neurologist’s office, Lincoln had already worked himself up to a high level of anxiety. Aaron must have noticed the strain in Lincoln’s face when he came back into the living room because he was suddenly in full-on Nurse Aaron mode.

“What’s going on?” Aaron questioned. “Did I miss something?”

“Dagger just sent me a text. Our tour starts in two weeks,” Lincoln grumbled. “Two fucking weeks. That’s all the time I have left to prepare and get this MS under control so I can do my fucking job.”

Aaron sat down on the coffee table in front of Lincoln. “I set up an appointment with Dr. Hardy for tomorrow morning at ten o’clock.”

“Are you shitting me?” Lincoln asked. “This short notice and they had a time slot open for me?”

Aaron laughed. “I actually know Dr. Hardy along with some of his staff, so they’re fitting you in between patients.”

“I’m not sure I want to go,” Lincoln said.

“You don’t have a choice,” Aaron answered. He reached for a folder sitting on the table and set it in his lap. “And now, you and I are going to go over the disease modifying drugs Dr. Hardy is suggesting. I’m going to tell you everything I know about the major drugs currently being used. Yes, these are all injection drugs, but they will help you manage the disease and it’s what is typically prescribed for the first few years of managing this disease.” Lincoln started growling under his breath and Aaron reached out to hold his hands. “Hey, you don’t have to go through this alone, Linc. I am committed to helping you for as long as you want me to be part of the process.”

Lincoln’s head dropped to the back of the couch. “I can’t be your only patient until the end of time and that’s what this fucking disease is, Aaron. You really want to take me on for that kind of time span? I mean, seriously. Think about that for a minute. Babysitting me for . . .”

“Stop it,” Aaron interrupted. “All I want you to focus on is right now. We’ll change that focus as each new week starts. Thinking beyond that is a waste of energy and only casts negativity onto what you’re trying to accomplish here.”

“The fucking tour starts in two weeks!” Lincoln barked. “Did you hear me say that? I’m not a hundred percent certain I can handle the work involved in a tour. And if I can’t? What then? Do I have to quit the band and fly home to figure out my next career?”

Aaron pushed off the coffee table and dropped to his knees between Lincoln’s spread thighs. Before Lincoln could say another word, Aaron grabbed Lincoln’s face in his palms and kissed him hard. He bit Lincoln’s tongue and sucked it into the heat of his mouth. Lincoln’s fingers dug into Aaron’s thick hair and twined the soft strands around his digits. A quick tug on Aaron’s hair pulled him off Lincoln’s lips. Lincoln held Aaron’s head in place and stared into his eyes.

“Is your kiss meant as a distraction?” Lincoln breathed out.

Aaron grinned. “That’s not the only reason I kissed you,” he said. “I also had the urge to taste your mouth.”

Lincoln took Aaron’s mouth again in another toe-curling kiss, possessive, raw, and dirty. When he was finished, Aaron was having trouble catching his breath. “I have a major urge to taste a lot more than your mouth,” Lincoln said against Aaron’s throat. Their whiskered jaws rubbed together and made sexy scraping sounds that sent electric pulses of energy all through Lincoln. “Jesus, Aaron,” Lincoln licked the skin over Aaron’s Adam’s apple and his arms wrapped tightly around Aaron’s back. “Can we go lie down now?”

“Depends. Is your seduction meant as a distraction to get me to stop talking about the medication?” Aaron teased.

“Absolutely,” Lincoln admitting. “But it’s also because I have a serious need to be naked and pressed against you.”

Aaron slowly came to his feet in front of Lincoln and held out his hand for Lincoln to take. Lincoln’s eyes were glued to the impressive bulge of Aaron’s erection in his jeans. It wasn’t until Aaron playfully slapped at the top of Lincoln’s head that he realized he’d been staring at Aaron’s groin and not the hand Aaron offered to help him stand up.

Lincoln took Aaron’s hand and stood. Aaron grasped Lincoln’s face and squeezed. “Our conversation about the drugs isn’t over,” he explained. “We are temporarily going to put that aside and go upstairs, but when we return to the first floor again, that talk will resume. Are we clear?”

Lincoln nipped at Aaron’s bottom lip. “Mmmmm, time for sword fights . . . I can’t wait.”

Aaron chuckled and tugged Lincoln by the hand all the way up to his bedroom.

It didn’t take them long to undress each other and fall on top of Lincoln’s big bed. Lincoln scissored their legs together and took Aaron’s mouth to try to drown Aaron in all the passion he had inside himself for the man he now cradled in his arms. Aaron tipped his hips forward and brought their groins together. The contact of their cocks made them both moan into the other’s mouth. Aaron was already leaking from his slit and down the side of his shaft. Lincoln was on his way to being fully hard, but hadn’t come anywhere near the solid length Aaron had pressed to him. Damn, he envied being able to have an erection like that to show Aaron how he truly did affect him.

“This is so fucking good,” Lincoln whispered against Aaron’s lips.

“So, so good,” Aaron answered with a lick across Lincoln’s lips before he slid his tongue back inside Lincoln’s mouth.

Lincoln growled and eased Aaron onto his back. His mouth moved across Aaron’s jawline; his tongue teased by the dark stubble there, before he dropped down to Aaron’s throat. His slow torturous licks continued lower over both nipples. He sucked and nipped each and then used his tongue to follow the thin line of dark hair all the way to Aaron’s bellybutton. The tip of Lincoln’s tongue lapped inside the divot.

“I wanna taste your cock again.” Lincoln’s husky voice floated across Aaron’s stomach. The ridges of muscle flexed beneath his lips and Aaron’s hand landed at the base of Lincoln’s skull. Aaron’s fingers caressed Lincoln’s scalp and his legs spread in invitation. “Jesus, I want you so bad,” Lincoln exhaled.

Lincoln didn’t need further permission than that. He used his hands to push Aaron’s legs open more and moved between them with his face pressed against Aaron’s ballsack. With his nose nudging Aaron’s taint, he inhaled deeply. The scent of Aaron’s maleness was intoxicating and Lincoln suddenly felt dizzy. Aaron trembled beneath Lincoln. The moment was heady and so fucking intimate. Lincoln’s skin broke out in goosebumps. He couldn’t remember feeling this much heat and desire for a partner before Aaron.

He pressed his nose into Aaron’s taint again and then offered a teasing lick across his balls before he drew his tongue up the length of Aaron’s shaft and stopped at the tip. Lincoln used the flat plane of his tongue to swipe at the precome sliding down the side of Aaron’s crown. It tasted so sweet Lincoln groaned and then pushed the head inside the heat of his mouth. Aaron’s hips lifted off the bed.

“Oh, Jesus!” Aaron cried out.

“Is it good?” Lincoln’s grin was devilish. He watched Aaron’s eyes roll back into his skull and his body relaxed back against the mattress. Lincoln licked at Aaron’s tip again and then took his cock all the way into the back of his throat. Aaron nearly jack-knifed, but Lincoln placed a hand on his stomach and settled him, before his mouth stretched around Aaron’s shaft a second time. Over and over, Lincoln tortured Aaron. He edged Aaron until he was sweaty and mumbling incoherently, with one hand clutching the sheets and the other fisting Lincoln by the hair to hold him in place on his dick.

“Fuckkkk, I need to come,” Aaron slurred.

“Give it to me,” Lincoln said in a raspy voice.

Lincoln sucked just the head before he swallowed Aaron whole. Lincoln’s nose bumped the neatly trimmed batch of pubic hair at Aaron’s root and his hand curled around Aaron’s ballsack. A light tug was all it took and Lincoln felt the first hot blast of Aaron’s load shoot down his throat. Lincoln bobbed his head and tasted another shot of come hit his tongue.

“Holy shit!” Aaron groaned. “Fuck, fuck, fuckkkkkk . . .”

Lincoln smiled around the cock in his mouth and continued to lick it clean while Aaron quivered through his aftershocks. Knowing he had driven Aaron to such a state of ecstasy as he had was unbelievable.

Lincoln licked his way back up Aaron’s sated body until he reached his mouth. It was Aaron that grabbed a hold of Lincoln’s neck and pulled him to his mouth for a fiery kiss. Aaron’s tongue lapped at the inside of Lincoln’s mouth. His groan vibrated in Lincoln’s throat.

“Tasting myself inside your mouth is hot as hell,” Aaron whispered.

“You are delicious.” Lincoln smiled against Aaron’s lips.

Aaron rolled them and put Lincoln onto his back. “My turn to taste you,” he said.

Lincoln allowed Aaron to move him, but when Aaron began to kiss his way down Lincoln’s body toward his groin, Lincoln did his best to move Aaron off of him.

“What’s wrong?” Aaron asked.

“It’s not working,” Lincoln mumbled and tried to sit up at the headboard but Aaron stopped Lincoln and kept them face to face on their sides. Lincoln tried to cover his eyes with his forearm but Aaron pushed the arm away.

“Hey, no walls. Remember? We talked about that,” Aaron’s fingers touched the whiskers on Lincoln’s jawline. “You’re safe with me, Linc.”

Lincoln’s eyes fluttered open and met Aaron’s warm gaze. “Honestly?”

“Of course,” Aaron answered and inched a bit closer to Lincoln so they shared the same pillow.

“I feel . . . completely safe with you,” Lincoln said quietly. “I’ve never had this with anyone else. The way you care for me beyond the medical shit and the compassion you show with my . . . issues, it makes me feel, I don’t know, special or something.”

“To me, you are,” Aaron replied in a soft voice.

Lincoln tipped his head on the pillow. “I don’t understand, though,” he said. “You’re fucking gorgeous. You could have any man you wanted, so why would you settle for a guy as broken as I am? I may never be able to satisfy you like you deserve. Do you realize that? I can barely get myself off and I fear eventually that is going to drive you away.”

“Don’t do that,” Aaron said.

“The only thing I’m doing is speaking the truth,” Lincoln answered. “Seriously, Aaron. Do you realize that right now all I can think about is how badly I want to slide my dick into your perfect fucking ass or your hot mouth and show you just how much I want you, but no matter how much I want that, my dick won’t work. It’s frustrating beyond what you could possibly imagine and as much as I think you should find someone more capable in the bedroom, the very idea of you walking away flips me the fuck out because I don’t want you to leave.” Lincoln pressed his fingers into his eyes and Aaron quickly pulled them away.

“I’m not leaving,” Aaron said. “And I’m not lying here with you for the sex, or what I think you can give me. I’m here because you . . .”

“What? Finish your thought,” Lincoln said.

“Jesus,” Aaron sighed. “You . . . touch something inside me. You make me want to take care of you, nurture you. You make me want this every single day, and as crazy as I know it is, you make me want the kind of relationship I know you don’t want. So, yeah. This is way beyond the physical for me. That’s my truth.”

A long moment passed as Lincoln digested Aaron’s words. His watched his fingers slide down the strong column of Aaron’s throat and over his Adam’s apple and onto his chest. “I’ve never had a real relationship.”

“I know, and I’m seriously not trying to pressure you for one,” Aaron said. “You wanted me to be honest and I was.”

Lincoln’s eyes met Aaron’s again. “I’ve never been with anyone like you,” Lincoln said. “No one has ever meant enough to me to want something more than one or two nights. But you do. You make me want things from you that I don’t deserve and I . . .”

Aaron kissed him then, essentially cutting off the rest of Lincoln’s admission. Lincoln’s mouth opened freely for Aaron and as soon as he felt the tip of Aaron’s tongue slide in alongside his, Lincoln sucked it like it were Aaron’s cock. He felt Aaron’s erection growing again between them and wished to god he could feel his own prick spring to life but it didn’t. Aaron was by far the best kisser Lincoln had ever had the pleasure of kissing. Aaron’s tongue could make him tremble with lust, but somehow those erotic sensations didn’t move him past the semi-erect stage. When Lincoln realized he wasn’t fully getting hard, he started to pull away from Aaron, but Aaron stopped his movement.