Cutie Pies by Barbara Bell

Author:Barbara Bell [Bell, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2018-01-31T23:00:00+00:00

A smile.

A goddamned smile.

That was all he had to go on. A smile, a few words exchanged after their inelegant fuck on the showroom floor, and a lingering look before they parted ways.

Hell. Why hadn’t Joey said something. Oh hey, that was amazing. I would really like to see you again sometime. Maybe we should grab a beer after work. That would have been enough. Enough to figure out whether or not Mick wanted to do this again. Enough to know whether or not Mick actually liked him or if he was just “the cute guy from the sex shop.”

And if Mick did like him, then it would have given him space to say the next, far more terrifying thing that needed to be said. So, about your boyfriend . . .? Mick’s response to that . . . well . . . that was the real question wasn’t it?

Joey rolled over, his free-from-the-roadside mattress squeaking and moaning with every movement. On the bedside table, he could see the time illuminated on the face of his Matrix-style digital clock: 4:43 a.m. Two minutes since he last looked.

Christ. He’d already spent all day worrying about what happened with Mick. Was he really going to spend all night doing it too? Apparently so because the second he closed his eyes again his brain was back on the other man.

Mick had told him his boyfriend didn’t care. What did that mean? Did it mean he didn’t care that Mick was sleeping with other men? Did it mean he didn’t care if Mick dated another man? Or was it just something Mick had told Joey to get him to do what he wanted?

Could Mick lie to him like that?

The answer was obvious. Yes.

He didn’t know Mick. Not really. He could count the number of times he’d seen the other man on one hand. For all he knew, Mick could be a liar. Mick could be a cheat. Mick could be using him for sex in the absence of his boyfriend.

But, the truth was, even if that were true, he couldn’t blame Mick. At least, not entirely.

Mick wasn’t single. Joey had known that from the first time they met. He’d known that when Mick had asked him out, he’d known that when Mick had kissed him, and he’d known it as he’d come in Mick’s hot wet mouth. It hadn’t mattered in the heat of the moment. Not as Mick had pulled him close and moaned around his girth. But it mattered now.

It mattered a lot more than Joey had ever imagined it would.

Will you look at that? Joey thought as he lay in bed, staring into the darkness of his room. You have a conscience after all. Or are you just afraid of being “the other guy”? The one he doesn’t want? The one he uses for sex? The one he wouldn’t be with if his boyfriend wasn’t far away?

He peeked at the clock again: 4:44 a.m.

It was going to be a long night.

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