Trent woke to the morning light coming through the porthole. It took him several moments to remember where he was. He lifted his bunched fists to his eyes to rub out the morning dirt.
"Awake?"
He ran through his index of men to determine whose voice it was. It certainly was someone he knew. He turned his head toward where the sound had come from. The stage director. Now Trent remembered the previous night, even though it wasn't a particularly memorable one once he started back to his cabin. Oh, well, he'd already decided it was time to give the director more attention.
"Uh, uhm." He started to roll toward the side of the bed, away from the stage director's body stretched out beside him. But a hairy arm came down over his torso and started to turn him back to the center of the bed.
"Um, Erick. It's morning. Or afternoon, or whatever."
"So what? You know what I like in the morning. It hasn't been that long that you should have forgotten."
"Gotta go. We should be anchored at Coco Cay."
"So?"
"I have a tour. Over on the island."
"Forget about it." The stage director had a tight hold on Trent, and as he was turned toward the older man, Trent could feel that the man was hard. "We'll be back next week—and the week after that. You can take the tour later."
"I've paid for it, Erick. And I've gotta get off the ship for a while or I'll explode."
"When is the tour?"
"1:00 p.m. Over on the island. And I'll have to tender in."
"It's only nine. We have plenty of time."
Trent had managed to struggle out of the stage director's arms, though, and sat up on the side of the berth. In one fluid motion from there he stood up beside the bed. He immediately felt wobbly, though, and almost collapsed back on the bed before he could get his balance. Erick reached out for him, but Trent moved away from the bed.
"Spoil sport. Tease," Erick murmured. But he wasn't scowling, so Trent decided he hadn't pushed not doing as the stage director wanted too far.
He pulled on his jeans and gathered up the briefs, T-shirt, and loafers he'd been wearing the previous evening.
"God, you're beautiful," the stage director muttered. "Just like you'd strutted out of an Abercrombie & Fitch ad. Come on back to daddy, you sexy thing."
"Catch you later," Trent said with a forced smile as he moved to the cabin door.
"You'll want a favor sooner than later and you'll be back," the stage director groused.
Trent exited the cabin and padded across the hall and down the interior corridor that led to his own cabin. He could hear his roommate snoring through the door as he quietly inserted his sea pass card in the lock slot and opened the door.
Shit, he thought as he entered the dark interior cabin. The light from the corridor washed over his roommate's berth, where the man lay, snoring. But he wasn't alone. Draped over him was a nude, sleeping woman. Natalie, one of the dancers, Trent thought. His roommate had picked a hell of a time to score with a woman.
As quietly as he could, Trent moved to the built-in bureau and closet and gathered a pair of shorts, fresh briefs, a clean T-shirt, and a pair of deck shoes. As silently as he'd entered the cabin, he left it and padded back to the door of Erick's cabin. He hadn't closed the door tight, and it opened inward as he moved to knock on the door.
Erick was still in bed, propped up against pillows against his headboard and smoking a cigarette.
"You're back. Changed your mind on a morning fuck?"
"No. Can I use your shower? Dennis has someone in our cabin. I don't want to wake them."
"Dennis has someone?"
"Yes, as surprising as that is. But before you get excited, it's a woman. So, can I use your shower."
"That would be asking a favor, wouldn't it?" As he said that, he sat up on the side of the berth and spread his legs. Trent knew what he wanted. He knew just what Erick always wanted in the morning. With a sigh, he placed his clean clothes on a chair, stripped off his jeans, sank between the stage director's legs on his knees, cupped Erick's balls in one hand, and, holding the man's cock at the root with his other hand, slid his lips down over Erick's cock head.
As the night before—as every time Erick had fucked him—the stage director fucked Trent missionary style, with Trent laying on his back on the edge of the berth, with his head turned and staring off at the cabin wall and his ankles resting on Erick's shoulders, while, having raised Trent's pelvis with pillows under the small of his back, the older man fucked Trent's channel slow and deep. Erick didn't seem to realize—or care—that he was the only one doing any work.
Only after he'd ejaculated did the stage director tell Trent he could use his shower. Not having been brought to come himself because he hadn't been satiated by the stage director's technique, Trent masturbated himself to an ejaculation in the miniscule shower stall.
* * * *
Trent had signed up for a small-boat tour from Coco Cay, the cruise line's Disneyesque "adventure" land island it anchored near for a day to give the passengers a beach and theme-park experience during the cruise, not only out of curiosity but also because he felt he simply had to get away from the ship for at least a brief time. He recognized that he had been mistaken not to get off the ship at either the Cape Canaveral or Nassau stops just to walk around on his own. Of course, he'd had rehearsals to attend during those stops, which would have made any off-ship excursion a short one. But the troupe had given its last performances for this cruise now, so he could take a tender to Coco Cay for much of the day if he wanted. The ship didn't sail again until 5:00 p.m.
He could have taken various water sports excursions, but the tour he'd chosen was one that would just cruise around a nearby cay, informally called Drug Island. All of the sex in recent days had tired him, so he wasn't looking for an energetic experience.
Drug Island's formal name was Norman's Cay. All of the land on it had slowly been acquired by a drug lord of the Colombian MedillÃn cartel in the late 1970s and, for four years, it had been run as a major cocaine transshipment point between Colombia and nearby Miami. In 1982 the Bahamian police and U.S. drug enforcement officers had finally descended on the island and closed down the operation and arrested everyone left on the island in a single night's raid. The boat tour from Coco Cay circumnavigated the island, showing that it had been abandoned totally and that everything there on the night of the raid remained and was deteriorating.
For Trent the tour was just to be a mindless time of rest away from the ship.
And there was every reason to believe that it might be that until right before the boat cast off from the Coco Cay pier and was flagged down by six late-arriving passengers—Clint and his five fraternity brothers.
The boat, with benches along the rails and a canopy over the deck, was crowded enough with vacationers that Clint and his crew made no overt moves on Trent. But they sat across from him in the boat and eyed him as much, if not more, than the sites the tour operator was pointing out.
Clint placed his hand on his crotch and tilted his head to one side, signaling a question, probably wondering if Trent was angry about the gangbanging the previous night. But that had been fine with—and profitable to—Trent, and he smiled back and spread his legs and, although he didn't touch his crotch, he let a hand drop between his legs. Clint blew him a kiss. Digging around in his pocket, Trent came up with a few of the fifty-dollar bills from the previous night and rubbed them together in his hand where Clint and his friends could see them. Clint smiled and nodded his head, establishing a future tryst. Clint spread his arms, indicating his friends, and inclined his head—and Trent nodded a yes.