Diplomacy

you know my brothers won’t throw you out of this place if a Yellow Cab ran over me tomorrow.” Lucas shuddered, “Don’t say that!”
    “You know they won’t, Luke.”
    Lucas turned some more to look his lover in the eye. “You better be careful not to get hurt. I want to dance with you at our daughter’s wedding and I want you to bounce our grandchildren on your knee.” Jack looked at the serious expression on Lucas’s face and couldn’t help but laugh. “Who says she’ll want to get married?” Lucas smiled and grabbed Jack’s hands while he moved to straddle him. “I don’t care.” He started as he placed a hard kiss on Jack’s mouth. “I want to grow old with you, whether that means dancing at a wedding or not!”
    Jack dropped to his back, allowing Lucas to continue the assault on his body. He knew that when Lucas didn’t entirely get his way, he tended to take the lead in bed. It was one of the reasons why Jack liked to put up a good argument.
    He liked to feel Lucas’s bulge grinding against his, through their clothes, while his hands were pinned to the bed next to his ears. He liked how Lucas invaded his mouth with his tongue and then moaned, sending ripples through his entire body. He liked to watch the young man’s eyes go dark as he said “just lie back and let me do all the work” while he struggled to get both of them out of their clothes. Jack would put up a silent argument, struggle a bit, but only because he knew it made Lucas’s lust for him even stronger. Lucas would spoil him, let him suck on those long slender fingers of his while he had his mouth around Jack’s swollen cock and the fingers of his other hand buried deep inside him.
    Jack knew he would need all his resolve not to come right there and then. He knew that he would have to wait until Lucas was thrusting deep inside of him, nicking at his sweet spot every single time. Until they no longer knew where one ended and the other began, until he heard Lucas’s low moan in his ear and his plea to “come with me, Jack”. Only then could he let go, feeling all the sensations of lust and love course through his body and see them come out in Lucas’s eyes.

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    “I promise that as soon as they make it legal, I’ll ask you again,” Jack whispered, his voice still a little unsteady.
    “No, it’s my turn to ask,” Lucas rebutted, a lazy smile on his face as he pulled his lover closer in his arms.

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Chapter Twenty-Four
    LUCAS ran across the central hall, blue briefing folder in his hand, to pick up a Hollywood director and his security man at the courtesy desk.
    Apparently the director had been given the approval to film inside the United Nations building, which was normally unheard of. Lucas had been asked by the Secretary-General’s aide to show both men around the
    ‘backstage area’ as well as the General Assembly Hall and the interpreters’ booths. Since they were not in session today, both would be virtually empty.
    Lucas vaguely recognized the man, but couldn’t name any of his films off hand. His security expert was an old acquaintance, though.
    “Mark! It’s been….what? Four years now?” Lucas extended his hand and shook the rather subdued security man’s hand.
    “Mr. Carlton, if I remember correctly. Formerly of the British Embassy? And that would be closer to five years, sir,” Mark answered, barely letting a smile break his stern exterior.
    “United Nations now, and please, call me Lucas.” Mark turned to his employer. “Mr. Carlton and I go back to my Secret Service years when I was working for the American Embassy in Belgium.”
    “Ah yes!” the director answered, shaking Lucas’s hand and then turning back towards Mark. “Isn’t that where you got shot?” Mark chuckled. “Yes, sir. Thank you for reminding me.” Lucas gave them their visitor’s badges and took them through to the places they had been cleared to visit. He could tell Mark still had his D i p l o m a c y | 187

    eagle eyes. The bodyguard scanned his surroundings as if there were snipers on every overhang.
    The director explained what the film they were going to shoot was all about and then asked if he could meet with one of the interpreters on staff.
    “I think that can be arranged, sir. Why don’t I show you around some more and then I’ll make some calls and see what I can do?” In the General Assembly Hall Lucas explained what happened when they were in