Checking Out: An MM Romance Novel (City Boys Never Sleep Book 1) by Jay Leigh

Author:Jay Leigh [Leigh, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rainbow Brigade Books
Published: 2023-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Shiloh

Standing in the middle of Trey’s bedroom with only a towel around my waist flooded me with all the nerves I’d felt when I first knocked on his door earlier in the evening. I’m not exactly sure what caused me to stumble back into the confused flurry of emotions, but here I was, staring at his bed as if it might simultaneously eat me alive and answer all the unknown questions of the universe. It was a real trip.

I flinched when his arms wound around my waist from behind, but it was just enough to restart my short-circuited brainwaves. His lips trailed little kisses over my shoulders, and the sensation sent a slight tremor through my body.

“You are not in my bed, mon petit agneau. I told you to get in my bed, non?”

“Sorry, sorry… Trey?” The shake in my voice had me cringing over how pathetic I sounded. The whispers I always tried to drown out tickled at the back of my mind. “Useless.” “So stupid.”

Trey slid around me until we were face to face again, and I guess one look at my face betrayed my spiraling thoughts. “Oh, non. None of this, mon precieux.” He smoothed the pad of his thumb over my brow, and I only then realized how much tension I’d been carrying there. “Talk to me, Shiloh.”

I inhaled deeply before letting the breath out with a woosh. “Shit, I’m sorry. I… I don’t know, I just blanked out, and I guess…”

“Shiloh, we do not ever have to do anything you do not want. Stay anyway. Stay with me, and if you decide you want to try something, you can tell me.”

“Sorr—“

“Tch. Bed, Shiloh. No apology.”

His saucy little response eased the tension, and I barely managed to stifle my laughter. I liked his rough edges and attitude more than I wanted to admit. He was made out of anomalies. He often spoke such tender words and yet routinely sniped little barbs. Tattoos covered his skin, yet it was still so soft and pale. His hands read ‘stay back,’ but they touched me in ways that screamed, ‘come closer.’ And I couldn’t keep mine off of him.

“Can I just… can I just touch you? That’s what I want right now.” Fuck if I knew what we were supposed to do next. I mean, I had a rough idea of how this stuff likely went down, and I knew what I wanted, more or less. I just tripped over the transition from the bathroom to the bedroom.

“Mnn, oui. You never need permission for this, mon petit agneau.”

Hearing the words aloud got my brain back on track, and the blanket consent to explore his body gave me something to focus on as the doubts and worries that had resurfaced faded away. It was like a little switch in my head needed to be toggled before the instincts and desires returned. One minute, I would be all wrapped up in insecurity and uncertainty. Then the little switch would flip, and the clarity was back again.

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