Ethan Gold Feels Like Home by Suki Fleet

Author:Suki Fleet [Fleet, Suki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stars and Ink Press
Published: 2023-07-27T18:30:00+00:00

V Ethan

Ethan wasn’t a panicker. He was a take-a-deep-breath-and-deal-with-it kind of person. But as he watched Win’s sharp, beautiful features slowly relaxing, his skin gradually giving up its awful blue hue, he was filled with the certainty that he didn’t know how to deal with any of this. Thin sheets of ice seemed to be forming on the surface of the water around Win’s toes already. The bath was going to be cold again in no time.

And then what? Ethan needed to somehow convince Win he’d be okay staying here in the bath while Ethan quickly went downstairs and put another pan of water on to boil. He couldn’t just let Win freeze. He couldn’t bear thinking about that happening. What Win had said in the kitchen had thrown open all the doors and windows inside him. It had made him feel more alive than he’d felt in…than he’d ever felt, perhaps. They had a connection somehow. He could sense the bright threads of it winding between them, drawing them closer. Win didn’t feel like a stranger to him. He hadn’t felt like a stranger from the start. How that could be, Ethan didn’t care. All that mattered was that they’d found one another. Somehow on this snow-storm of a night, they’d found one another.

“Talk to me?” Win whispered, jolting him out of his thoughts.

Ethan sank back on his heels and blinked. “What do you want to talk about?” Maybe if they talked for a bit, Win would feel more relaxed about Ethan going down to the kitchen to boil more water.

Win’s narrow shoulders lifted, then dropped. His Adam’s apple shifting as he swallowed. Ethan just wanted to look at him and never stop.

“Want me to tell you why my aunt threw me out?”

Ethan had been afraid when Win had asked him this earlier, but now he felt so wide open, he wanted to tell Win everything. Downstairs, Win had said he wanted to kiss him, to pull him into the fucking bath with him. Ethan turned those words over and over in his head, until his body felt full and dizzy with the pleasure of them.

Win nodded. Smiled. The sort of smile that said I’m on your side. Whatever you tell me, I’m with you. And, for a moment, Ethan could only smile back.

He took a deep breath and let the words tumble out. “Well, someone put porn…gay porn, on all the computers at the place where I work and I was the only person who had a key that night, so they thought it was me.” Holding Win’s gaze was hard but Ethan made himself.

Win’s eyes widened but Ethan saw no judgement there, no shock or disbelief. “What, so the manager didn’t have a key?”

“No, he did. But I was the only other one.”

“And you didn’t do it, right?”

Ethan shook his head, and he could see Win believed him. Without question. He just simply believed him. Why hadn’t Aunt Margot? Why had she so easily been convinced he

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