Irresponsible Puckboy (Puckboys, #2)

by Eden Finley

“Hear me out,” Anton says. “I had a talk with him when we first got here and you three went for a hike. He seemed lost without Tripp. And I tried to get him to see why he might feel that way without actually coming out and saying it, but he wasn’t getting it.” We all blink at him. “He practically has hearts in his eyes when he looks at him,” Anton pushes. Ezra’s the first to break. “He’s always been like that though.” “And that doesn’t tell you something?” “Nah. No way. No offense, Trippy, but Dex is straight. He’s so comfortable in his heterosexuality that all your gayness doesn’t faze him. That’s super straight.” Anton tilts his head. “Maybe he’s pan. Maybe if Tripp and Dex had the perfect circumstance in which to explore something, Dex could realize he’s fluid.” “Dex is always all over Tripp,” Oskar points out. “I know he’s, uh, oblivious, but if there were feelings there, even he would have picked up on it by now.” “No, I mean—” “You mean, like, a prison situation?” Ezra asks. “That kind of fluid? Where guys can’t fuck women, but they’d rather have sex with their cellmate than their fist?” “Or maybe,” I interject before they can keep going, “Dex and I are really close, and even if it’s painful for me to have him in all the ways I want except sexually, I know it would hurt more to live without him at all.” I look over at Oskar. “And that’s how I do it to myself. If you guys had ever experienced a fraction of what I feel for Dex, you’d understand. You do things that are ...