2018 Top Ten Gay Romance by J.M. Snyder

Author:J.M. Snyder [(editor), J.M. Snyder]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2018-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

I was alone when I woke up. It was pitch black outside and the fire still burned, so I probably hadn’t slept long. But the space Axel had occupied was empty, and I shivered despite being covered by the blanket. I gazed up to the loft, but it was dark and I couldn’t see anything.

Sighing, I closed my eyes, but the couch was too big for just one person. I—who slept by myself most nights—was lonely. I got up, drank a glass of water, and managed to find the bathroom where I couldn’t resist the calling of the shower.

Freshly showered and dressed only in my boxer briefs and undershirt, I leaned against the handrail of the stairs leading up to the loft. I wanted to go up there and join him. Wanted to be surrounded by his woodsy scent and listen to him humming in his sleep.

But I shouldn’t, right? Even if I hadn’t imagined the interest I’d sensed from him, he wouldn’t want me up there uninvited, would he?

I rolled my neck. I’d better get back to the couch and get some more sleep. Nodding, like I was trying to convince myself I’d made the right decision, I moved. But my feet didn’t listen to my brain and instead of returning to the sofa, I started climbing the stairs. Hesitantly on my tippy toes at first, but after a couple steps, I hurried my pace until I was jogging the last bit.

Axel lay sprawled out on the bed with an arm thrown over his head and a leg dangling over the edge as if he hadn’t been able to decide whether to stay in bed or get up. A night light on the bedside table illuminated his face and made his eyelashes appear longer than they actually were. The black tattoos covered his arms and shoulders and continued up his neck, but the skin on his well-defined chest was unadorned like a blank canvas. He didn’t even have chest hair.

His nipples were pebbled and I wanted to pull up the covers to make sure he wasn’t cold, but I was frozen to the floor. Pulled in two different directions. I knew I should stop staring at him while he was sleeping, go back downstairs, and leave him the fuck alone.

Instead I took a step closer.

His unexpected gentleness had gotten under my skin. The honest vulnerability he hadn’t been afraid to show, made me want to wrap him up in my arms and protect him. To give him the same support he so generously gave to others.

And I wanted to kiss him. Find out how those scarlet lips would feel pressed against mine. I wanted to be surrounded by his blackened, steely arms and caressed with blazing palms. But most of all I wanted him to look at me with those melted eyes as if I was the best thing in the whole wide world.

Fuck. I was in so much trouble. One day with him and my knees were wobbly and my tummy full of buzzing bees.

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