All's Fair In Love And Dare: An MM Best Friend's Brother Romance by Rikki Leighton

Author:Rikki Leighton [Leighton, Rikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Blair

Most of the glass is superficial, and it only takes Atlas a few minutes to pick out the pieces that decided to dig in, but all the tiny little cuts feel like razor blades as he drags a soapy washcloth over them.

“Your dad is a piece of work, isn’t he?”

I smile despite the pain I’m in. “He wasn’t always that way.”

Atlas’ warm lips press to the back of my neck, and when I crane my head to see him, he’s wringing the pink-tinged washcloth over the bathroom sink. When he’s finished, he turns back and his hand finds my skin in a gentle, soothing touch.

“I’m sorry,” he says, dragging his touch down my spine and making me shiver.

“Nothing to be sorry for.”

There’s a quiet thud followed by arms snaking around my waist and Atlas’ forehead resting on my shoulder. “I provoked him.”

I grip his hands where they splay over my stomach. “I provoke him by existing.”

“Which is bullshit.”

We hold each other in silence. Noah is in study mode and isn’t likely to leave his room for most of the night. In fact, his headphones mean that he won’t even notice anyone is here until he has to take a bathroom break. It’s like Atlas and I have the place to ourselves, and right now I could really use that solitude.

This isn’t even the first time Dad has gone after me with a beer bottle, and it isn’t the worst he’s cut me, either. What started as hitting and shoving around turned into more over the years, more creative ways to hurt a person than just nasty words and fists.

Atlas is never stationary when he’s touching me, and it keeps me from going too deep into my thoughts. His hands travel my chest, my sides; his fingers tap out a nonsensical pattern. His lips tease the skin of my shoulder, kisses trailing over ink and cuts, but that doesn’t stop him. He brushes his nose across the stars on my back; I can feel his breath as he leaves open mouthed kisses on them, but it’s when he scrapes his teeth over the moon near my nape that I gasp, and not in pain, but something else.

It should hurt, and maybe it does, but it’s the way that he closes his mouth over the spot and sucks that takes the sting away.

“You like touching me,” I whisper, relaxing into his snug grip as it tightens.

He hooks his chin on my shoulder. “I’m not always great with words. With reassuring people. Touch is how I do that.”

“I bet Shiloh loves it.”

His breath is hot against my face as he laughs. “Shiloh is very physically affectionate.”

The words form a ball of anxiousness in my throat. Dad might have been out of line, but I’d be a liar to say I’ve never wondered the same. I just always figured they’d tell me when they were comfortable if anything was going on.

I clear my throat, because now has to be as good a time as any, right?

“So, Atlas,” I say as he turns his nose into my neck and sighs.

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