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Soft, pink, lightly moistened lips that looked like they’d fit perfectly underneath mine.
I love Eliot's writing style and the way she can paint such sensual images with her words.
He didn’t have anything against religion that I knew of, but a church would’ve had to have a particle accelerator in place of a pulpit to keep his attention.
He knows Sebastian so well.
men were a lot easier. Sex was on the table? We were down to do it right there on the literal table.
Ha!
I hadn’t meant my words to sound quite so suggestive, but there they were, hanging in the air between us,
If sucking my dick was a punishment for him, he shouldn’t be doing it, period.
I agree.
he was beautiful, all long limbs and sharp nose and sharper cheekbones.
Four years inside had made me impervious to most verbal attacks,
The little bastard was apologizing on purpose.
🙂
The first touch of his mouth against mine sent an electric shock down my spine. I tasted whiskey, and warmth, and the unbelievable softness of his lips.
“I’ve only been with women,” I whispered
Kissing his smiling lips was like heaven. How had I not done this before? It felt like his happiness seeped out of him and into me, warming me down to my toes.
Awww...
If Sebastian was afraid of me, he wouldn’t have crawled into my bed in the middle of the night.
Exactly.
until he told me otherwise I was going to follow my usual playbook as closely as I could given the differences in anatomy.
His "usual playbook". Such an Aidan thing.
Aidan was straight, as far as the rest of the world was concerned, and it wasn’t my job to spread his business around.
Considerate as always.
God, he’d done everything right. Everything I dreamed of, from kissing me like he couldn’t get enough to holding me after we’d finished.
So romantic!
him trying to accommodate my neurotic issues with sex, without even making it a thing. Just doing it, like it was the most natural thing in the world.
If I’d ever been happier, I couldn’t remember when.
it had gotten basically impossible for me to hide the sappy, dumbass, I’m having sex with him and he’s so pretty look on my face every time his name came up.
😆
The line moved, and my heart skipped a beat.
Awww...
None of them came close to Sebastian. He was just…Sebastian, and as soon as I caught sight of him, everyone else faded into glittery, laughing background noise.
Wow, he's got it bad. 💗
Aidan was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, there and safe and tall and with his eyes filled with something I didn’t have the courage to name.
Chris frowned. “You kissed him.” That was definitely an accusation. “Did he want you to kiss him?” “Of course I did,” Sebastian mumbled as I settled him on the bed. “Always want Aidan to kiss me.”
Sebastian trusted me. Enough to skip the Xanax, enough to lie there with his eyes closed and let me take care of everything. Enough to let me kiss him, tuck him into my bed instead of his, and watch over him. It was a gift, and I couldn’t fathom the magnitude of it.
“We are together, okay? I hope. That’s up to him.”
I had everything I’d never known I needed right there in bed with me.
So romantic...
I wasn’t convinced, but I managed to open my mouth and say, “The page where I’m your boyfriend?”
“Look. Yeah, I’m not gay, but I’m obviously not straight, either. Right?”
No shit.
As long as you believe I want you, and you’re happy, I don’t give a shit what anyone else thinks.”
Perfect answer.
“Sebastian. You’re all that matters. No one else.”
*sigh*
Well, that was a real news-flash.
I know, right?
he’d never brought it up directly, and pushing for it, when I was one-hundred-percent sure I didn’t want to be on the receiving end, felt like a dick move.
It's not. Not all gay men are verse. Some only top and some only bottom. Even men who are verse usually have a preference for one or the other. So you only want to top. I'm betting Sebastian is either a bottom or verse with bottom preferences.
Aidan was such a hot guy: muscled and masculine and tall and with those amazing eyes. He could have anyone, male or female, and he’d had all those ex-girlfriends…
It's sweet how they both think they are just average but the other is super hot. It just shows how humble they both are.
We gazed at each other, both smiling that secret smile that people get when they can’t believe how happy they are. The air around us felt heavy and slow, like the moment before a first kiss.
I just like love her writing.
he wouldn’t even want to keep something pretty that he enjoyed simply because it’d remind him of me.
Aidan didn’t trust me. That was the bottom line. He thought I was too weak to handle worrying about it, and so he hadn’t told me. ‘Forgot,’ my ass. He hadn’t forgotten. A guy who’d been in prison for years and thought the cops might be coming to take him away again would remember something like that.
No, actually I think he really did just forget. I think subconsciously he wanted to forget. And let's remember that he had a lot of new, emotional stuff happen, which probably helped him forget. I somehow don't think they've been discussing Brody during the last two days. And if Sebastian talked to Chris on the phone like he said, then why didn't Chris mention it then?
my escape and Aidan’s freedom didn’t change what had happened. What my parents had done to Aidan, and to me. And then my mom thought it was her right, her prerogative, to harass us both? Screw. That.
Yes, they need to pay. What they did to both of you was seriously fucked up.
“Full disclosure? Hearing that story, I was totally shipping you two. I’m so glad I was right.”
Time to work things out, like a goddamn grown man. And then probably cry on Aidan’s shoulder like a teenage girl. But hey. Baby steps.
Ha!
optimism was a better attitude than assuming I’d never be kissing him again
The thought of losing him was almost worse than the thought of going back to prison. Hell, if I’d been given the choice of being a free man forever and losing him, or going back inside for a couple more years with the promise of him waiting for me on the outside? Gun to my head, I’d have walked right back into my cell.
Wow. He really loves him that much.
And there it was, the most clichéd break-up line in history.
I wouldn’t make him say it. This was the last thing I could do for him, after everything he’d done for me: make it easy for him to get rid of me.
Awww... Poor Aidan.
“I can be out of here by the time you get back from class this afternoon. Don’t worry about it, okay? You don’t have to…” I didn’t have enough oxygen to finish the sentence. Tell me to my face that I’m not good enough for you? Give yourself a panic attack because confronting someone directly freaks you out so much?
How heartbreaking!
Fuck it, not this time. He was mine, and I was going to take care of him the best way I knew how.
You go, Aiden!
Sebastian buried his face in my chest again, his breath coming in heaves. Did something? Cheated on me, knocked over a liquor store, joined the circus, broke the laws of physics by getting a top quark and a bottom quark to fuck, and now we were all going to die when the universe exploded?
Even now he makes me laugh.
He peeked over his shoulder at me, blond waves curtaining his face except for the gleam of one blue eye. If I could’ve taken a picture at that moment, I’d have framed it, hung it on the wall,
❤️
My ass was freezing, because he’d parked himself under the hot water and hadn’t budged since we got in.
😄
He glanced up through his lashes in a way that always got me. Shy, and sexy, and cute all at once.
His eyes were as blue as the sky the day I walked out of prison, and almost as blinding.
The way he looked at me…I’d never even imagined someone looking at me like that. It seemed like too much to hope for.
