Page 72 of Grounding the Baker
“Maybe you can invite him next week, then?”
“Or you could come to us, and I’ll cook.”
“Not going to argue with that.”
Austin smiled at him before leaning in for another kiss, which he deepened. His tongue slipped into Liam’s mouth. He couldn’t help but moan, and his cock was hard in seconds. Liam could spend the rest of his days just kissing Austin. It was his favourite thing– well, alongside having that gigantic dick inside him. He couldn’t help but laugh.
“Intrusive thoughts again?” Austin chuckled.
“You don’t want to know.”
“I think I know already,” he said, pressing said gigantic dick against Liam. His whole body shuddered.
“What time is Maisie back?”
“Too soon for what you’re thinking.”
Liam laughed. They kissed again for a bit before they had to stop dry-humping each other. He couldn’t get enough of Austin. With only ten minutes before the princess was due home, Liam was saying goodbye and confirming he’d be back by four o’clock. That gave him four hours to sort all his life admin shit out, pack a bag, and get back here. He knew they couldn’t do anything with Maisie in the house– well, nothing too heavy– but Liam was determined to get at least one more orgasm out of Austin before the weekend was over.
NINETEEN
AUSTIN
Their weekend together had been amazing. Liam had come back on Sunday afternoon, and as suspected, Maisie had been all over him, peppering him with questions. Nothing too intrusive, thankfully. As a surprise, he’d brought all the ingredients to make a chocolate lava cake and had Maisie help with the baking. She’d loved it, even if the kitchen looked like a flour bomb had gone off afterwards. Once she was asleep, Austin had dragged Liam to bed and coaxed two orgasms out of him, the first using his mouth, and the second his fingers. He’d started begging Austin for his cock again, but he knew if he was inside Liam, neither of them would be quiet.
Austin loved how responsive Liam was to his touch. He had sensitive spots all over his body, and Austin wanted to spend hours exploring every inch so he’d know all the different ways he could bring pleasure to the man who already had his heart. Most people would be freaked out about falling for someone so quickly, but that’s just who Austin was. He knew he could be really intense, and even Ellie had said it had felt overwhelming at first, but thenshe’d loved how he put his feelings out there. He wanted to tell Liam how he felt about him, but didn’t want to freak him out. Austin was certain that if Liam didn’t already feel the same way, he was getting there. It was impossible to fake the connection they had with each other.
Now he was back to reality and dealing with Mrs Yentob, who kept changing her mind about the water feature she wanted, and Austin wanted to add Charlie Dimmock to his mortal enemy list. Not that he had such a list, but Mrs Yentob was bingeing old episodes ofGround Force, and Ms Dimmock had a fetish for water features, which meant his customer kept changing her mind based on what she’d seen on TV the night before. Austin was landscaping the entire garden, but he needed to dig out the hole first so he could make sure everything else worked around what would be a central feature.
“Do you think we could have piranhas in there?” she asked.
“I thought you wanted clownfish?”
“We can have them as well, can’t we?”
“Do you want them to be eaten?”
“Why would you ask me that? Of course not.”
“Piranhas shouldn’t be kept with other fish, certainly not smaller ones. There’s a high probability they’ll eat them.”
“Can’t we separate them?”
“You mean two ponds?”
“No, just one pond, but have like a divider, and make it transparent so nobody knows they’re separated?”
Austin’s patience was being tested today. Despite being woken up at three thirty in the morning by Liam going to work, he’d fallen back to sleep, smelling him on his pillows. He’d had a wonderful weekend and slept with his armswrapped around a beautiful man the last two nights. He was usually chill about his customers’ bizarre demands, but he was getting intensely irritated today. It had nothing to do with the fact that his next date with Liam wasn’t until Wednesday, of course.
“Mrs Yentob, if you’d like piranha, I’d advise they be kept indoors, in a tank, and not mixed with other fish. We’re not sure what other wildlife could find their way into the pond. What if a frog lays eggs, and they get eaten?”
“Oh no.” She clutched her pearls, and not metaphorically– she was actually wearing pearls. “I could never live with myself.”
“So, maybe forget the piranha. They’re classed as exotic fish, so not as easy to look after as the others we’ve discussed.”
“That makes sense, Austin. Thank you. Now, I’ve narrowed the pond shape down to six options. Let me get my folder.”
He smiled at her before rolling his eyes once she walked back into the house. It was going to be one of those days.
