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Link’s fingers are buried in Merle’s thick gray fur, petting softly as the low Christmas music fills the creative house with a haunting holiday melody. It’s their first Christmas alone together, by Rhett’s special request. Neal-Mclaughlin Christmas is the biggest and happiest holiday of the year for their big and happy family, but this year, the dads have Christmas Eve to themselves- just Rhett and Link and the dogs.
Merle makes a small huff of appreciation under Link’s gentle fingers. Jade is on Rhett’s lap and Barbara’s curled up on the couch between their hips. Jasper is off with the kids, posing reluctantly for Instagram photos, no doubt. Here, three dogs rest unbothered, peaceful in the glow of the Christmas tree.
Rhett admires the tree, the spread of presents beneath, and the man beside him. Link is also looking at the tree, golden lights catching in the silver of his hair. There are fine age lines by his mouth and eyes, but his big blue eyes are as youthful as they’ve been all the decades Rhett’s known him.
“I love our little family,” says Link, then lays his hand still on Merle. Rhett sees the faintest hint of a thought pass behind Link’s eyes, and Link’s brows furrow.
“What are you thinking about?”
Blue eyes meet gray. “It’s silly,” Rhett’s husband answers. “If I said it out loud… I don’t want to sound ungrateful.”
Rhett lays an arm behind his man and strokes the nape of his neck. “You’re the most grateful man I know, bo. Just tell me.”
“I love our little family,” Link repeats. “You and me, here with the dogs. And I love our big family. My kids, your kids, our wives. I love that our life is filled to the brim with love, and then some. More love than we ever thought possible…”
Rhett strokes Link’s special spot as he waits for him to continue.
“But sometimes…” A faint blush creeps across his cheeks as he speaks the next words. “I wish there was something special that was just ours. Not a creative project, but more like a…”
“Baby.”
Link balks, pink blush deepening on his cheeks. Suddenly, he can’t meet Rhett’s eyes; he fidgets with Merle’s thick fur. His reaction to the word alone is curious, and Rhett can’t help himself.
Rhett clarifies that he’s not calling Link a pet name, studies his husband’s reddening face. “You wish you could make a baby with me.”
Fidgeting, Link reaches to touch the back of his neck nervously, finding Rhett’s hand there. He squirms, struggling through a sentence non-sentence. “Well, when you say it- I mean- so bluntly- I just-“ he meets Rhett’s eyes, calm gaze holding steady. “Yeah. I wish we could make a baby.”
“Oh, baby…” Rhett purrs, rousing Barbara as he leans into his man. He takes Link by the chin and plants one soft kiss on his mouth. “I want that, too.”
Link’s eyebrows go up as his eyelids flutter down, parting his lips so Rhett can deepen the kiss. Link’s face is pink and hot, and his tongue is minty sweet like peppermint tea, and there’s a thrum of electricity that wasn’t in him before, and Rhett’s buzzing to claim more of it, so he takes Link’s face in both hands and kisses him as hard as he can, as if it were possible to make a baby with their tongues.
When he pulls back, Link is red and debauched and Barbara has vacated the spot between them. Rhett closes the gap and kisses Link again, sweeping his hands down over Link’s shoulders and onto his chest, splaying out his fingers to feel Link’s hot, heavy breaths. Touching Link makes Rhett warm, and Link warms under the touch in return. Link makes a soft mewl on Rhett’s mouth, and with it, Rhett decides the excited electricity thrumming between them must be explored.
He pulls back and brushes a silver strand off Link’s forehead. Rhett honeys his voice and purrs, “Come on, baby,” then makes a move to stand up. Jade and Merle hop off their laps and join their sister in the present pile as Rhett takes Link by the hand and leads him to the bedroom.
Rhett kisses Link through the doorway, then shuts the door with his foot behind him. He guides Link by the waist as he presses soft, closed-mouthed kisses to Link’s pink lips, who makes small noises under his beardy smooch. When they reach the bed, Rhett says, “Lay down.”
Link immediately spins and throws himself face-down, ass-up, presenting his pert rump.
Rhett gently rolls him over so they’re facing one another. “Like this,” he whispers. “Missionary.”
Link blinks at Rhett from his belly-up position. He’s bright pink and tenting his hot little red Christmas pants. “What’re you gonna do, hubby? Make me your wife and put a baby in me?”
Handsome brows furrow as Rhett lays his big body atop Link’s, fitting between his spread legs. “No, that would be dumb because you’re my husband,” Rhett starts, tightening the grip on his waist. “But yeah, I’m gonna try.”
Link whines a gorgeous noise as hot beardy lips meet his neck and Rhett opens his mouth to bite up to Link’s earlobe. Rhett knows how to get his bo all hot and bothered, and touches him greedily as Link squirms and warms beneath him. Big hands rove possessively over Link’s trim middle and hips, sweeping under the soft knit of his Christmas sweater.
Bratty and always looking for ways to rile Link, Rhett waits for Link to heat up in his clothes before removing them, sensing the hot dampness on his thigh where Link grinds his clothed erection into him. “Gotta get you naked if we wanna do this right,” teases the big man, tugging the sweater over Link’s head. Link’s glasses have fogged so Rhett removes them with one hand, folding them and setting them gently aside. The other hand goes to work on Link’s impossible jeans, button and seam straining from his lover’s excitement. His needy husband makes small, impatient sounds as Rhett pops the button, unzips and yanks the skinny jeans off Link’s long, slender legs. Link’s left in his spank undies and fuzzy holiday socks, squirming bashfully under Rhett’s greedy eyes. Rhett’s caught for a moment, looking at Link, knowing this powerful, masculine man wants nothing more than for Rhett to fucking breed him.
When Link reaches to tug Rhett’s shirt, Rhett removes it himself and unbuttons his pants. He presents his hard-on and squeezes it, thumb rubbing over the head. It’s extra sensitive tonight, pointed at Link, and twitches ever harder when Rhett growls, “I’m gonna mate you.”
Something happens to Link at the words; he squeals like a pig and goes just as pink, urging Rhett with horny noises to take off his last layer. Rhett lovingly rubs him through his underwear and reaches under to massage his hole before stripping the briefs down his legs, finally getting Link bare. He’s the most beautiful when he’s naked, Rhett thinks.
Shameless, Link pulls Rhett into him, wrapping his legs on his man. His fuzzy socked feet rest at the perfect divot of Rhett’s tailbone as the big man adjusts on top of him. “You gotta be naked to make love,” says Link, and his voice is dark with arousal.
Rhett’s burning up as denim slips down his ass, head of his cock nudging Link where they’re both hard and straining for one another. Wasting no more time, Rhett fumbles for the lube stashed bedside and quickly uncaps it with one hand. Rhett coats his bare thickness and growls, “We ain’t makin’ love, we’re makin’ a baby,” and slips the head inside.
Link yowls, clenching around the first few inches of Rhett’s fat cock, tears welling in his eyes as he stretches for him. Rhett can sense how badly Link needs it, and when Link grips Rhett’s biceps and pushes himself down the rest of the way, Rhett knows just how to please him.
Beardy mouth at Link’s ear, Rhett whispers how good Link opens up for him and how nice he feels all hot and wet like this, causing Link to squeeze and flex around him. This drains all the blood from Rhett’s brain and he teases Link that they have to fuck tonight or else they’ll miss their window. Link responds just as strangely, wailing an obscene howl as his body bows to get closer to Rhett.
“That’s it, baby,” Rhett urges. He rocks his hips in little movements now, fucking in shallow thrusts to get Link ready. “Gonna knock you up.”
Ever-needy, his husband pulls him down for a messy kiss and begins rocking his hips to meet Rhett’s thrusts. The friction makes Rhett moan in Link’s mouth and shudder atop him. They make a beautiful couple as they tangle up on the bed, sweat catching in the handsome valley of Rhett’s spine.
Gasping for breath, Link gnaws into Rhett’s freckled shoulder and moans desperate pleas against his skin. Fully giving over to the fantasy, Link clings to his mate and cries out for more. “Please, Rhett, I want you so bad. I want a piece of you, forever, please I need you, please-“
Rhett humps a little harder, slipping through Link’s tightness. “Yeah, baby, I can do that. I’ll give you what you need.”
Link’s smiling maniacally, though tears spill from his squeezed-shut eyes. “What do I need, Rhett?”
Fucking hard, Rhett feels the familiar burn of tension, desire, that deep-seated need to breed rising in him as he fucks. He holds Link close as he gives him good sex, rawing Link without hesitation as he senses a quick and intense finish nearing. “You need someone good-looking to put a pretty baby in you,” his horny mouth answers. “You need a man to breed you.”
“Oh, it’s you, Rhett! It’s only you!”
Link holds on tight as Rhett rams him, bouncing him into the bed. Link’s legs have slipped from Rhett’s hips now and he lays spread-eagle as Rhett crushes him, smothering Link with his bigness and filling him up with his big dick.
“I’m gonna do it,” says Rhett, as his orgasm wells within him. He has to hold it back to make it more powerful, his horny brain tells him, since this is the big one and he has to get Link pregnant.
“Do it,” begs Link.
Holding out, Rhett grabs Link’s knees and pushes them up and out, getting Link into the same position he put his wife in all those years ago. Like this, there’s no hiding what they’re doing, and the sight of Link’s pink cock bouncing around takes him the rest of the way there.
“Fuck, Link, I’m-“
Link throws his arms around his man and squeezes his muscles to take what he’s owed. “Gimme.”
“Aaaaah!” Rhett cries, spilling inside his husband. Link squeals happily and pushes closer, squirming on his cock, milking Rhett for every last pearl. Link’s shuddering beneath him as Rhett humps through the last of it, warm skin broken out in feverish sweat at the feel of Rhett filling him up.
“Baby…” Link cooes, too blissed out from being bred to remember to come. His pink dick is sticky against his stomach, and Rhett nudges it aside with his knuckles to pet Link’s belly.
“Do you want to come?” asks Rhett, and Link nods, reaching down for Rhett’s hips to keep him there, plugging him up.
Rhett kisses Link’s cheek and reaches for his cock, gently toying with it. He waves it around to wake Link up, then envelopes him in one big warm hand and begins to tug. It only takes a few strokes to make Link fall apart, and he’s such a beautiful thing when he does. Silver hair all a mess, broad chest flushed and covered in sweat and come, and his eyes- sleepy, sated, admiring Rhett with the special love shared by fathers.
Rhett’s about to slip out when Link keeps him there a little longer. They’ve both gone soft and Link’s leaking lube, but Link keeps Rhett there by threading a hand into his curls. He looks deep into Rhett’s eyes, an intense blue flame that stirs an arousal in Rhett’s empty reserves.
“Thank you, baby…” Link says, twining an amber curl on his finger. “You gave me just what I needed.”
“I’m sorry I can’t actually…”
Link shushes him with a finger to his lips. “You’re all I want.” He takes his finger back and pulls Rhett down for a kiss.
Rhett kisses him softly, overwhelmed with love for this person he’s known his whole life, who’s been everything to him since day one, who honestly makes Rhett’s first marriage stronger by existing purely as he is, and who he is. Link is Rhett’s husband- his wild, unabashedly horny husband who Rhett would give the stars to if he could.
Rhett tells him this later, when Link’s clean and fluffy and curled up on the couch with the dogs once more. They’re wrapped in the Christmas blanket, snuggled together, and it’s well past midnight, colored lights gleaming in the darkness. Link sips cocoa while Rhett pets the special spot on the back of his neck.
All three dogs lay sleeping.
The end <3