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table and picked up a condom package and a bottle of lube.
    Noah pulled his clothes off the rest of the way, then reached for Charlie. He pushed Charlie against the wall, kneeling in front of the other man. Noah wanted to taste him.
    “Yes, please,” Charlie said.
    Noah drew the tip of Charlie’s cock into his mouth. He suckled on it for a few moments before drawing it farther in and swallowing down the length.
    Charlie handed the bottle of lube to Noah. Without releasing Charlie’s straining cock, Noah squeezed lube onto his fingers, parted the other man’s legs and slid his digits into Charlie’s entrance.
    Charlie’s hands gripped Noah’s shoulders, and he thrust into his mouth. Noah moved his fingers within his lover’s ass.
    His own cock ached with need. He had to come soon, but first he wanted to make Charlie release in his mouth. Wanted to make the other man lose total control.
    It didn’t take long for Charlie to increase the speed of his thrusts, growling low. Noah caressed his balls, squeezing them gently.
    “Noah!”
    He tasted Charlie’s fluid as he poured into Noah’s mouth.
    After Noah swallowed as much of the other man’s spunk as he could, he released Charlie’s cock and stood. He tore open a condom package and rolled it on his erection. Charlie wrapped his arms around Noah’s neck and pulled him close again, their lips melding together, hot and wet.
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    Noah lifted Charlie and entered him with one long thrust.
    He pumped into him again and again, slamming harder and deeper. He briefly worried he was hurting Charlie, smacking him against the wall, but the other man didn’t protest, he just kissed Noah with more intensity.
    The orgasm hit him fast and furiously. With a shout of his own, Noah stiffened and came inside his lover.
    He rested his forehead against Charlie’s and slowly withdrew. He lowered his lover’s legs and kissed him again.
    Noah smiled. “Well, I’m glad I called you back.” Charlie laughed. “Me, too.” He yawned. “I’m suddenly exhausted.”
    “Yeah.” Noah bent down to pick up his clothes, remembering he needed to pull away, not read too much into it. “Listen, I’m heading home. I’ll talk to you later.”
    “Wait…um, do you want to stay over?” Charlie asked, but he wouldn’t look at Noah.
    Noah was tempted to say yes. He wanted to more than anything. But he couldn’t put the words Charlie had typed to Sly Cat about him out of his mind. It hurt. Still. And he needed to protect his heart as best he could. Cuddling up to Charlie would not be a good idea.
    “No. I have to get up pretty early. I wouldn’t want to bother you.” Noah tried to make his smile casual. “I’ll call you in a few days.”
    “A few days?”
    Was it his imagination or did Charlie look crushed?
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    it, as he put the distance between them, it felt wrong. Like maybe he was doing to Charlie what Charlie had done to him…dismissing him. Noah dressed and opened Charlie’s front door.
    “Noah?”
    “Hmm?”
    Charlie frowned, and glanced away. “Nothing. Good night.”
    “Night, Charlie.”

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Charlie had made a decision. A few days had already passed since he’d last heard from Noah. He didn’t just come over uninvited like he once did. At one time, Charlie had almost been annoyed when Noah came over. Now he got depressed when evening came and went with no Noah.
    He should have told Noah he wanted things to change when he’d come over the other night. But Charlie wanted to have sex and be close and he’d missed the chance. Noah had practically run away.
    When had their relationship changed so that he was the pursuer?
    Whatever. Friday night had come around again and Noah hadn’t even called. Charlie intended to find out why.
    Noah didn’t answer his cell, so Charlie walked across the street to his house. He frowned at the unfamiliar motorcycle parked in front of Noah’s