Love Me Like A Rock by Amy Jo Cousins Page A

him through the window.
    Sean blew him a kiss. “Come on, babe. Let’s get your nature on.”
    Giving up, because Sean’s enthusiasm was starting to wriggle under his skin the way it always did, Austin unlocked the door and got out of the car.
    It really did smell good. Crisp air and leaves moldering and Sean, who wrapped Austin in a bear hug and snuffled against his neck like a wild animal until Austin laughed and pushed him away.
    Sean wiggled his eyebrows. “Don’t tell me you don’t want to do it in the woods.”
    Austin’s experience with doing it in the woods was limited to giving his first blowjob to a fellow student just off boarding school grounds. He’d gone back to his room and shown Vinnie what it was like immediately after, scratching his mosquito bites all the way through.
    “Do I look like the kind of guy who wants to fuck in the woods?”
    Before he could blink, Sean had him pressed against the car and Austin’s legs were curling up and around him because there was never a moment when this man didn’t make Austin want to climb him like a tree.
    Fucking trees, everywhere.
    Before he could open his mouth to complain that no wonder people couldn’t actually see the woods when there were so many damn trees in the way, Sean’s mouth was on his, warm fingers sneaking under the edge of Austin’s shirt to tickle at his waist.
    Five minutes of that had Austin’s dick hard and his balls aching as he tried to get friction where it counted.
    Sean peeled Austin’s arms away from his neck and kissed him swiftly on the mouth.
    “Hold that thought. I brought a pack for you. Let’s figure out what you actually need from that massive pile you dumped in the backseat.”
    Austin sighed and consigned most of his stuff to the trunk of Sean’s car for the weekend.
    “Is this even legal? Camping here? I thought you had to have a permit.”
    “Don’t ask, don’t tell,” Sean said and winked. “Trust me.”
    Trust me. Famous last words.
    But strangely enough, Austin did.

Chapter Five
    Okay, so maybe camping-camping was all right.
    Admittedly, he was wearing every layer he’d packed, because the temperature had plummeted with the sunset to what felt like Arctic levels to Austin, although all the other guys were joking about how warm it was compared to the trip they’d made this time last year. He was close enough to the fire to feel it toasting the side of his body nearest to the flames, but the rest of him shivered harder in contrast.
    Sean had taken his guitar out of its case and brought it over to the fire, but he set it aside before he’d even started playing it and hauled Austin over to sit between his knees while he rubbed his hands up and down Austin’s arms.
    “Cold?” he asked.
    “I think I need another hat,” Austin joked, although his ears did tingle with the cold, unless he had one pointed straight at the fire pit.
    “How about this?” Sean asked, holding up a blanket he’d magicked from God knew where. Austin was simply grateful for the sorcery as he yanked the fleece out of Sean’s hand with a cry of happiness.
    “You gonna get under here with me?” he asked, holding his left arm out, clutching the blanket in that hand. Sharing body heat sounded fucking ideal.
    “Maybe later,” Sean said with a wink and bent down for a swift kiss that turned into a slow fucking of Austin’s mouth, one hand plunged deep into his hair so Sean could tug him closer.
    By the time Sean let go, Austin was breathing hard and happy for the cover the blanket gave to his hard-on, because he didn’t really need his dick to be the focus of half a dozen dudes’ curious stares.
    Not that anyone was staring. Everyone was pointedly looking away, although the rest of the guys were definitely catching each other’s eyes and freaking out a little about the kiss. Sean had told him their normal group was mixed gender, but this weekend the women had ditched them for a girls-only trip of their own.
    “Are we