A Funny Thing Happened...: An Adrien English Christmas Story by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon [Lanyon, Josh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holiday romance, christmas story, LGBT
Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2023-12-28T18:30:00+00:00

I woke thinking the night before had to be a dream.

But nope. There we were, curled up comfortably despite the lumpy mattress, furry companions, and sepia gazes of oval-framed photos of relatives I knew nothing of.

I blinked, turned my head, met Jake’s wide-awake gaze.

“Hey,” I murmured.

“Hey.”

“How long have you been awake?” I tried to smother a yawn someplace besides his face.

“Not so long. Scout wanted out.” He kissed me. “What did you want to do this morning?”

“I’m so glad you asked,” I murmured, and kissed him back.

Kissing. It’s what’s for breakfast.

Well, probably not, but it was a lazy, lovely start to what was sure to be a lazy, lovely day.

There are some things you don’t get tired of. Your favorite things. I’m not talking about raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. I mean that first kiss of the day and the last kiss at night, Jake’s quiet laugh—what I think of as his private laugh—the way we know what each other’s thinking without so much as a glance. I don’t think any of this—the feel of his hands moving over my body, the taste of his mouth on mine—the heat and urgency and hunger—that need to be as close to one as two humans can get—I don’t understand how that could ever become stale or routine.

I don’t get tired of hearing sweet nothings, because they will never mean nothing to me.

I know what it cost us to get here.

Jake muttered roughly, “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.” His mouth was hot on mine as he kissed me again and again; his lips so soft, his jaw scratchy-velvet against my own.

I gasped, “Same here.”

“Sometimes I think, what would have happened if someone else had got that call?”

“What call?” I managed, between kisses. Maybe you wouldn’t think a guy as tough, as hard as Jake, could like kissing so much, but there wasn’t a centimeter of my surface he hadn’t thoroughly explored with lips and tongue: crook of elbow, tip of toe, curve of neck, back of knee… Every little shivery, secret space.

I’d waited a while for that first kiss, but once Jake got started, he never stopped.

Best of all was when he pressed his warm, open mouth to mine and we held each other tight, sharing each breath, feeling each heartbeat as our own.

Jake drew back a little, looking alarmingly serious. “Hersey. If someone else had caught the case.”

Ah.

Robert. It had to be that damn compatibility quiz dredging up all our murky history.

I shook my head. “I’d be in jail. Or maybe dead.”

He looked so stricken at the idea, I teased, “Or I’d have solved the case, and right now Guy and I would be cleaning up after our solstice party.”

Jake growled, apparently no more thrilled with that idea than the idea of me in prison—or possibly dead—and rose from the bed.

“Hey,” I protested. “I’m kidding. Solstice was three nights ago.”

Jake muttered something unintelligible. He was kneeling in front of his olive-green daypack, rifling through the contents.

“If you’re looking for a condom, I’m going to kill you.

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