Mateo had returned to the bed, leaving Sebastian on the small balcony, smoking another cigarette. Smoking the cigarette half down and hearing Mateo snoring in low, melodious satisfaction, Sebastian arced the butt off into the void to follow the earlier one. Rather than satisfying him, Mateo's attentions at the balcony had only whetted Sebastian's appetites for something different, something new, a higher high. The sex had been casual, passionless. That apparently was enough for Mateo. It was enough for Sebastian--with Mateo--but he had dreams of more. He had dreams of being touched in sex, of trembling under the attentions of a man and being slowly lifted up to the heights and then slammed down hard. Thus, he had dreams of having sex with someone different than the two other men in this room.
The young America quietly exited the room, went to his own chamber, and put on a pair of tight jeans and a T-shirt and loafers without socks. He left the villa and walked the ancient, narrow streets to the central square and a bit beyond to the Java Café. He saw Doctor Coleiro sitting, alone, at a table, but he wasn't going to be the one to make a move. He picked out a table for two in the shadows, ordered a beer, and listened to the piano player keying soft jazz. A shiny saxophone hung on a stand on the stage, promising the new musician Doctor Coleiro had said would be here this evening.
"Ah, I'm glad you could come--that you understood my invitation," the doctor said as he approached the table and leaned down to whisper his greeting in Sebastian's ear. "May I sit with you at the table, or are you expecting someone else?"
Sebastian looked up at the doctor and gave him a small smile. This was starting off well. Coleiro hadn't taken him for granted--he'd come to him, and he'd asked for permission to join him.
"Yes, sit, please. I came because you invited me."
"You came for me?" Coleiro asked him.
Sebastian shrugged, but he smiled again, leaving the desired response that he was willing to come for Coleiro linger there in the air, both of them knowing it was hovering.
Coleiro chose to interpret this to have its most favorable meaning, and he made full use of the advantage. Before sitting, he put his hands on Sebastian's shoulder, leaned down, and let his lips brush against the young man's ear. When Sebastian didn't withdraw from that, he lingered, pressing a tongue into the ear cavity and then held the lobe between his teeth ever so briefly. Sebastian didn't pull away from that either. And with just those accepted attentions, both men knew that, if this continued to go well, Sebastian was going to let the doctor fuck him tonight. With a slight smile and sigh, Coleiro sank into the other chair at the table, pulling it around to close beside Sebastian when, otherwise, he would have sat across from him. He took one of Sebastian's hands in his and laced their fingers together.
Sebastian looked up to find the doctor looking into his eyes.
"Are you sure? When do you need to be back?" Coleiro asked, giving Sebastian a searching look.
"I'm sure he will sleep peacefully through the night," Sebastian answered, "and I don't punch a time card." That wasn't a definite answer to what the doctor was asking, but it was close enough to give him every hope, and when he brought their laced-fingered hands to his lips and kissed the back of Sebastian's hand, the young man didn't pull away from that either.
None of the other patrons evidenced surprise at the intimacy of this greeting beyond envying the doctor for his good fortune in being with the beautiful young man. The café was a frequent starting place for trysts--even among men. However, the music ruled in this café; conversation was to be minimal and almost imperceptible. But the piano player was transitioning out and the saxophonist was arriving and getting ready for his set, so there were a few moments available for quiet and abbreviated conversation. Both men knew why they were there, though, so extensive verbalization wasn't required.
"The extra pill?" Doctor Coleiro murmured.
"Yes, effective and put to use," Sebastian answered without much enthusiasm.
"Any ill effects?" Ever solicitous of his patients--especially those who were well heeled.
"He's fine. Sleeping like a baby." He also almost added "in the arms of Mateo," but Sebastian didn't know if the doctor was aware that Mateo was fucking Gainsworth from time to time. Having someone ride your erection and having someone with his cock up your ass might mean two entirely different things in terms of medical danger to a doctor. Sebastian wasn't one to carry tales. His position here was fluid. He wanted to avoid taking sides or engaging in any more maneuvering than he needed to maintain position.
"And you? Are you exhausted? No longer in the mood?"
"I'm fine. I'm here."
"But the coupling was not fully satisfying... for you?" the doctor asked, giving the young man his best look of concern and also letting Sebastian know for sure that the doctor knew who his patient was using the pills with.
"No, it wasn't."
"Otherwise you wouldn't have come tonight?"
"No, probably not."
"But you did."
"Yes."
"You crave constant attention? The Italian painter at the villa today said that you are insatiable. Li has said the same thing about your time in his house. He says your talent was in making the men forget you were doing it for money." The doctor looked hopeful.
"They told you that, did they? I suppose I am--insatiable, and that I don't just do it for the money. The difficulty arises in when it tends to feel all the same. I crave variety, and, I suppose, from time to time, younger cock--more vigor."
"I am considerably younger than Clifford," the doctor said, and, almost as an afterthought, "and am known for providing surprising pleasure, endurance."
"Special pleasure?" Sebastian asked.
"I'm a doctor. I have techniques and tools."
Sebastian visibly shuddered. "Other than his special needs, Gainsworth is vanilla," the young man said. "He's an old man--older than you are. I try to please, as does he, but he has little to give under the circumstances. The painter is... well, he--"
"I treat him--the painter, Mateo--for premature release," Coleiro said, saving Sebastian from finding the term himself. "He has asked if the pill would serve him when he is with you. He is contemplating starting on it, as I said that it could hold his ejaculation as well as his erection longer. I hold an erection quite well. There are edging tools and techniques at a doctor's disposal."
That raised another shudder of pleasure and anticipation from Sebastian. "Yes, unfortunately, that has been a problem with him--with Mateo." So much for wondering if the doctor was aware that he lay under Mateo too, Sebastian mused.
"I can cure that problem," the doctor said.
"For Mateo?"
"No, for you. But with Mateo, when you feel compelled to open your legs for him. I understand the position you're in--what you need to do to continue staying here in Malta. There's a term for what you have. It's satyriasis--the male equivalent of nymphomania in a woman."
"And there's a cure for it?" Sebastian asked.
"I don't know why a young, beautiful man like you would want to be cured--certainly those who lust after you don't want you to be cured. And I sense you need more than just penetration and anal possession--that you need special handling that excites and taxes you. Much of this is psychological. You can be trained to bring yourself on your own, independent of what your sex partner is doing."
"And do you not want me to be cured, Doctor? Do you lust after me too?"
"What do you think? Most certainly I lust after you--and desire to give you more than the men you are with now give you. I have this overwhelming desire to kiss you here, now. If I kissed you here, would you think me too forward? Would you not want me to do it?"
"I have wondered how a kiss would be with you," Sebastian said. They leaned their heads together and went into a lingering, gentle, somewhat searching kiss.
Coleiro gave Sebastian a questioning look when they came out of the kiss.
"That was very nice. Romance is very nice," Sebastian said. "But I have this burning inside me. I don't think I have time for romance. What I have clutching at me needs a cure."
"I could romance you," Coleiro said, "But if you wish me to be more direct, more open about what I want and what I could do to bring you pleasure--satisfaction--I can do that too. Would you like for me to kiss you more intimately here, now--on your nipples, your navel, on the bulb of your cock? Because if you wished it, I would do it. I will sink under this table and give you suck, if you wish."
Sebastian laughed, but it had a nervous edge to it. "Not right here, of course. But it would be nice for someone to romance me, not just fuck me."
"You would like me to romance you--and then fuck you?" the doctor asked.
"Yes, please," Sebastian said. "I have this ache in my gut."
"I can do more than romance you and give you a release. I can give you rolling pleasure for hours continuously and I can test your endurance. This that what you would like to have?"
Sebastian didn't answer immediately, but after a few moments, he said, "Yes, I think so. I have been used so much that I think I would like to challenge the edges--have more."
"What you have doesn't need to be cured--certainly not in your stage of life and with your body. It needs to be worship and exercised--to be treated."
"And the treatment?"
"You wish me to be direct, and I will be so. I want to fuck pleasure into you--find that ache and fuck it out of you. Hard cock is what you need. Frequent hard cock. And a little something extra--something taxing and pulling passion fully out of you--taxing technique and special tools. I can give you what those two men can't--what they haven't. Let us be scientific about this. I have no such stamina problems. I also have pills that will heighten your pleasure, if you are interested. I also have stimulating toys--binding, flogging, fisting."
Their hands had lost contact. Sebastian had moved his to the tabletop. Coleiro moved his hand on top of Sebastian's. Sebastian didn't take his hand away. The doctor smiled. "You must know I ache for you--that I have an ache in my gut too. My prescription for both of us to treat our ache is to fuck the ache away and replace it with pleasure." He moved his lips to Sebastian's ear and whispered, "I can give you something that will make you explode repeatedly, and I can hold hard inside you while you're doing it, and I can use devices and techniques that will mix and heighten the fear and cravings inside you. You will release again and again, with mounting pleasure each time."
"And you?"
"Trust me," the doctor answered, "I will get maximum pleasure myself from your beautiful body."
That was all there was time for before the saxophonist began his set with a mournful, slow tune. The doctor had set his chair closer beside Sebastian. He moved an arm around Sebastian's shoulder, and the young man leaned into it rather than away. A waiter drifted by, setting down two beers, and the doctor extracted a wad of folded euros from somewhere, paid the waiter, pulled four more bills off the wad, and placed them on the table top near where Sebastian had placed his hand.
"I know you appreciate being compensated for your favors," he said.