“No. This mountain does not belong to us, they know that,” he said, and I nodded, reassured enough for the tiredness to creep back in and take over my mind in seconds.
*
When I woke, the sun was peering into the hut. Kai was snoring next to me, and Brax was outside, his feet crunching as he paced in the snow.
I looked over at Derik, and he was smiling at me. His hand went to my face before he slowly kissed my lips.
“Are you feeling better?” I asked quietly, and he nodded.
“Much.”
“Thank you. For what you did.”
“It was for all of us.”
“I’m still grateful,” I said, kissing him again, showing him just how grateful by deepening the kiss, my fingers running down his abs, his thighs, to the bulge between them.
I cupped him and rubbed as his breaths panted against the kiss. Until he pull
