Love is Always Write Anthology Volume 1

and rolled his hips forward again and again. It was both a celebration of Raziel's return and sweet promise of everything to come. The pleasure consumed Cole, and Raziel's plaintive, needy cries into each kiss, the bite of nails to his back, did nothing to cool his arousal.
    He lost all sense of time as they moved with one another. It was as if the looks, the touches, the shared moans, all went on forever. Cole's pulse sped, and pleasure rushed through him in waves. Tender and teasing as a soft caress one moment, and then toe-curling and unrelenting the next. He took Raziel to the greatest of heights over and over. When Raziel finally tensed beneath him and cried out a strain of angel song, he couldn't help but fall with him. He snapped his hips forward, buried himself deep inside Raziel as brightness consumed him. The climax was filled with the echoes of Raziel's musical cries, and as the tempest of light and sound faded, he smiled breathlessly.
    Raziel's breath puffed against the skin of his neck, and he released his hold on Raziel's spent cock. His fingers trailed over Raziel's hip and thigh before his strength was sapped from him, and he collapsed atop Raziel. A soft fluttering purr from Raziel made his chest ache, and he closed his eyes as he caught his breath. The feeling in his gut was undeniable, and it reminded him of what he had felt when he had settled into living with Daniel. But it was so much more, so much deeper than he remembered feeling in the past. It frightened him nearly as much as it excited him. His hands even started trembling as he let himself slip from Raziel's body and shifted them onto their sides.
    "So much going on inside," Raziel whispered, as if he could still read Cole's mind. His eyes were so knowing that it nearly brought a blush to Cole's cheeks.
    "You know what I'm thinking? What I'm feeling?" Cole murmured.
    "No," Raziel admitted with a little chirp, "but that's why it's important for you to share now."
    Cole combed his fingers through Raziel's hair. "I barely know you," he said. "I spent a day in your company, a hazy night making love, and then you were gone. How can I feel so much for someone I've known for so short a time?"
    Raziel smiled at him, leaned into his touches. "Because you do know me. I've been here all along, that quiet voice in your head. I know you, and you know me. You know I'll never leave your side."
    "Never?"
    "Never," Raziel swore, such seriousness in his eyes.
    Cole peppered kisses over Raziel's cheeks and lips, whispering, "I love you."
    Raziel twittered happily, pressing close, a perfect weight in Cole's arms. "I love you, too."
    Holding Raziel close, Cole basked in everything he'd gained. He still had a great life with the perfect job, a wonderful home, and he'd survived the loss of someone he'd never dreamed of living without. The hole Daniel had left him with would linger, but he had a good feeling that Raziel would help stitch that wound over time. He smiled into Raziel's hair, hugging him close. Time was something he was once again looking forward to having a lot of.
    THE END
    Author bio: S.L. Armstrong has been writing for as long as she can remember. Art and reading have played a large part in her life since young childhood, but around fourteen, writing became her passion. Voraciously consuming every book in front of her opened up hundreds of worlds in her head, and she soon wanted to create worlds for other people as well. She has a particular fondness for gothic horror, horror, high fantasy, urban fantasy, and romance novels. The authors she turns to time and again are Stephen King, L.J. Smith, V.C. Andrews, R.L. Stine, and Anne Rice, among others. She has no shame in picking up the young adult novels she loved as a child, and she will talk your ear off about grammar and punctuation.
    After she married her husband fourteen years ago, she began to truly delve into the world of writing for public consumption. It was sheer chance that she stumbled on M/M fanfiction, and she's not looked back. Though fanfiction will always have a fond place in her heart, she soon grew tired of playing in other people's sandboxes. When she discovered M/M romance, and how it was now a legitimate branch of romance writing, she knew her course. S.L. plans to release F/F, M/M, M/F, and multiple partner books as she continues her writing career. M/M romance is where her heart lies, no matter what else she may write or read, and it's where she keeps returning to. There is