More than Moonlight Quotes

“I meant what I said. I don’t ever want anyone else but you, Jess.”
“I don’t want anyone else either. Only you.”
Shane’s fingers threaded into his hair. He pulled Jesse’s head back and kissed him again, slow and tender and sweet.
“I want to tell the guys,” Shane whispered against Jesse’s lips. It wasn’t the first time he’d mentioned it. “I wanna be with you for real, Jess, out in the open. We shouldn’t have to hide.”
Jesse closed his eyes. He wanted that too. He was just so nervous about what Nicky and Dre would think, what their parents would think. As much as he wanted it—to be out and proud and tell everyone that Shane was his—he just wasn’t ready to take that last step. The thought of it was too scary. “Give me some time, okay? I just…I need a little more time.”
He felt Shane’s nod. “Okay. But soon, Jess. I’m tired of pretending.”
“I know. I promise, Shane. Soon.”
He fell asleep to the sound of Shane’s heartbeat in his ear. They had the rest of their lives. Shane had said so before. They both wanted the same thing. A few more weeks couldn’t cause any harm.
Soon.”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“I wanna be your first and your last. No one else but me, ever.”
Jesse shuddered. Shane’s fingers were buried in him as deep as they could go. He was rubbing and rubbing at that spot, driving Jesse crazy.
“Promise me, Jess.”
Jesse tried to talk, tried to think. Shane was making him feel so good, so very good, it was almost impossible.
“Promise me,” Shane said again.
Jesse finally choked out an answer, “I p-promise, Shane. No one else but you. Ever.”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“Look at me, Jess.”
Jesse forced himself to turn his head and open his eyes. Shane’s face was only a couple inches from his. The light from outside was just bright enough for Jesse to make out Shane’s features—his high cheekbones, his lips, still swollen from their earlier kisses.
“You’re beautiful,” Shane whispered, and then he leaned forward and covered Jesse’s mouth with his.
Jesse parted his lips to let Shane in. For the first time ever, Jesse didn’t doubt Shane’s words. He could tell by the way Shane kissed him, touched him, that Shane really did think he was beautiful. Shane needed him, wanted him. It was enough to bring tears to his eyes”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“What is it? Jess?”
“Nothing, I’m just…embarrassed, I guess.”
“Why? Didn’t it feel good?” Jesse snorted into Shane’s neck. Shane lifted his head by his chin.
“Yes, okay? Of course it felt good. Better than good. I just…fuck…like a damn twelve year old.”
“And you’re embarrassed about that?” Shane chuckled and pulled him close. “I’d have been worried if you didn’t lose control. Jess, what do you think would happen if you touched me?” Jesse looked up at him with wide eyes and Shane nodded. “Off like a rocket. Ten seconds flat.”
“Shane, I—” Shane knew what Jesse was thinking. He could see it right there in those beautiful gray eyes. But it was hard to say. Scary as goddamned hell, too. He let Jesse off the hook.
“I know, babe. Me too.”
Me too”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“Shane,” Jesse whispered. Just his name. But the longing and desire in that one word turned him inside out”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“He was in love with his best friend and it was new and scary and perfect and so fucking beautiful that half the time he felt like he was just going to take off flying at any moment.
“Jess, what’s wrong? You don’t want me to touch you?” Please say it’s okay. I’m dying…
“I just thought you wouldn’t want to…because, well, you know.”
Shane slipped his hands beneath Jesse’s T-shirt, wedging them between Jesse’s back and the bed. Jesse arched to give him more room. The skin on his back was smooth and a little damp from the heat. Shane wanted more. He had to feel more.
“Jess, do you have any idea how sexy you are right now?” And he was. His spiky hair was all askew, glasses long lost to the carpet, those big gray eyes were shining up at Shane and his mouth was parted and wet, begging for more kisses. Shane wanted to show Jesse everything. Wanted to be his first. “I want whatever is okay with you.”
“R-really?”
Ah, shit, he’s nervous. He never stutters like that anymore.
“It’s okay. Only if you want to. We can just kiss.” Shane ran his fingers through Jesse’s silky spikes and kissed him again, soft and romantic like they usually did.
“N-no. I want you to do it. I do.” With trembling hands, Jesse unbuttoned his cargo shorts and loosened the zipper. Shane couldn’t help grinning at him. He’d wanted to touch Jesse for so long.”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“I’ve been waiting for you to do that.”
“What?” Jesse could hardly breathe.
“Just fuckin’…kiss me. I’m never sure you want it like I do.”
“I do. Always.” Jesse couldn’t believe that Shane would be unsure of anyone, let alone someone like him.
“C’mere, Jess. Kiss me again.”
So he did. He wrapped his hand around Shane’s neck, fingers delving into the damp silky strands of his hair, and yanked Shane’s face to his. The kiss was different than most of their kisses had been before. Where there had been sweetness there was heat, soft touches were replaced by grasping, desperate hands. Tongues swirled and Jesse fisted his hand in Shane’s hair. He pulled—and not very gently.
Shane moaned and tossed his thigh over Jesse’s hip. “Jess…”
Jesse moaned in return. He couldn’t believe how good it felt. In a moment of boldness, he ran his hands down Shane’s back and cupped his ass through baggy jeans. Shane tilted his hips closer to Jesse’s and deepened their kiss. He moved to his belt and fumbled with it for a moment before his jeans went loose under Jesse’s hand.
Yes. I want to. His heart crashed—pound, pound, pound, pound—against his ribs. Jesse slipped his hand inside jeans and boxers until he was caressing the warm bare skin of Shane’s perfect butt. Shane shivered hard and his back bowed, bringing his hips down on Jesse’s. His mouth, that beautiful mouth, suctioned itself to Jesse’s neck and Jesse shivered in return.
“Aw, fuck babe. I wanna touch you, too,” Shane breathed.
Jesse froze, trembling.
Really”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“You’re perfect. Quit saying that shit.”
“Nicky doesn’t think so.”
Shane snorted. “My brother’s an asshole. He doesn’t see what I see. And if he did, I’d have to kick his ass.”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“I don’t care who knows, babe. It sucks not being able to be near you like I want to just ’cause Dre or Nicky might be watching. You hafta know I wanna kiss you, like, all the damn time.”
“Why?” Jesse wasn’t fishing for compliments. He really didn’t understand.
“You actually mean that?”
Jesse nodded his head miserably. Shane lifted his chin. “Because you’re smart, and funny, and I can’t even hear a single note you sing without getting all turned on…and, well, because I’m falling for you. Like, hard.” Shane’s forehead wrinkled, his eyes went puppy-dog droopy. “Don’t you feel the same way about me?”
Shane’s sudden insecurity was sweet and sad and so very endearing. “Of course I do. But you’re Shane. I’m just…” A nerd. Ugly, squishy, pale, and too damn blind to get rid of these dumb ass glasses.
“There is no ‘just’ anything. Jess, you’re my boyfriend. Right?”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“He still couldn’t believe that it had actually happened. That day a few weeks before when Shane had kissed him for the first time, when everything had changed between them, still felt like a fantasy. His most hidden favorite fantasy. But it was real. Impossibly, crazily real. Jesse was still waiting to wake up.”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“Luck was too good just to fade into nothing. Jesse wouldn’t allow it.
But no matter what, big or small, world tours or holidays at home in Chicago, he, Shane, Nick, and Dre were a team. They were going to do it all, together”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight

“Jesse.
Just watching him play made Shane smile. He couldn’t ask for a better best friend. They’d only known each other since the end of the last school year when Jesse had been assigned to tutor Shane a few months before he graduated. But it felt like so much longer. The guy who Shane had once thought was an uptight, pain-in-the-ass nerd was cool, and fun, and a fucking brilliant musician. Luck had been lucky to find him”
― Piper Vaughn, More than Moonlight