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arousing. As he reached into the
sack for another he noticed that I had ceased all attempts to clean
my undervest in order to gaze at him, and he gave me a shy
smile.
    I scooped the water up into his face and he
spluttered and laughed. “Now, now, Ned! Am I distracting you from
your duties? At least one of your shirts should be clean. Perhaps
the one you are wearing now. But you should first…” he lunged at me
and his wet hands plastered over my face and slipped down to my
chest. “Remove it!”
    I overbalanced and sat heavily in the
shallows of the lake, laughing as the water lapped around me. “My
leathers! They will surely shrink.”
    “ Then you must remove those too.” Kari
gave a mischievous wink.
    When the clothes — including those we had
come in — were finally spread out on the warm rocks and drying in
the sunshine, we lay together naked on the blanket, gazing up at
the sky. Kari took my hand and laced his fingers through mine with
a long, contented sigh.
    “ It’s a wonderful world. I’m so
pleased that my grandmother forced me away from the monastery once
more. Perhaps I will take my time before rushing back to the fold
after all.”
    I shifted on my side to look at him. “It
will be some time before the clothes are dry. What are we to do
until then?”
    “ I can think of some things to do,” he
murmured, eyes closed. The slow, lazy smile on his face made my
heart bloom with longing. His prick was at half-mast already and I
was seized with a desire to taste him, something I had never done
with a lover before.
    What would they say at the Duck and Swan if
they could see me now? Nedim Melchion, aficionado of plump women
and silken sheets, on his knees on a stale-smelling blanket out in
the middle of the wilds beside the prone figure of a lithe young
man, sucking his cock to full and magnificent hardness? It was not
a fashionable activity even among the most open-minded of my
friends, seen only as the work of whores and hounds. But the sighs
and moans of Kari’s pleasure blended together with the lapping of
the lake and the birdsong, making the sweetest music I had ever
heard and I forgot all about my life in Lis for the first time.
    He tasted of the lake where we had just
bathed, tangy like the juice of the olive, sweet and fresh. And
what a view presented itself from my vantage point! His belly was
dusted with the tight curls, muscles contracting under the soft
skin. His ribs, jutting out as he took deep breaths. His whole body
flinching and relaxing under my ministrations, beautiful and
enticing like a half-explored land. I cupped his balls and massaged
them through the wrinkled, furry sack. It was truly an intoxicating
experience. I could not get enough and slavered over his hot prick
like a madman until his thighs began to tremble and before I knew
it, he gave a cry and emptied himself into my mouth.
    Such an emission was not unexpected but its
volume certainly was. I pulled off him to spit it onto the ground,
choking and wiping my mouth. His prick slapped against his stomach,
spent for the moment.
    “ Ah Ned, I’m sorry! I was trying to
hold it, truly.” He was half-panting and half-laughing as he pulled
me to him. “But your mouth is truly amazing. I’m sorry if I drowned
you.”
    “ There are worse ways to die.” I
grinned and stroked his hair out of his eyes, which were
heavy-lidded with sleepy satisfaction. Even though I was as hard as
the rocks around us and aching for more, I laid my head on his
chest and listened to his heartbeat slowing. A deep contentment
filled my heart. We had hours ahead of us, alone by the shimmering
lake, and time had never seemed so precious.
    Before I knew it I was dozing, but he nudged
me awake with a childlike grin on his face. “Let me show you
something great.”
    “ Something greater than what we’ve
just done?”
    He laughed. “Not exactly. But great all the
same.”
    I struggled into a sitting position and
scratched my head, watching as he darted

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