Festive Friends With Benefits by Annabelle Jacobs

Author:Annabelle Jacobs [Jacobs, Annabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-16T00:00:00+00:00

SEAN

I don’t want to move.

I know I need to. I can already feel my cock softening inside him, but I just don’t want to. Vic is solid and warm underneath me, and while we’re like this, I don’t have to think about what comes next. But as soon as we move from this spot, the real world will flood back in, and that means talking.

About what we did.

About what comes next.

I’m pretty sure Vic feels the same about one-night stands as I do, and anyway, it’s not like we’re strangers.

Aren’t we?

No. It might look that way to the casual observer, we haven’t seen each other in a long time, but it doesn’t feel that way. Being with Vic is easy. It was the first time round and that, like so many other things between us, hasn’t changed. At least not for me anyway.

Which is probably why we need to talk.

I’m not a fan of leaving things to assumptions, especially where my emotions are concerned. I need to know what this is between us, what the expectations are. Not the most romantic of post-sex conversations, but I don’t want to spend the next few hours or days agonising over what’s happening between us.

I’m too old for that shit.

“Hey.” Vic rubs his hands up and down my spine, and I realise I’ve been silent for too long. I’m probably crushing him too. “You okay?” His voice is soft, warm, but there’s a hint of uncertainty in it, and it makes me sit up to see his face.

There’s a matching emotion in his eyes too, and I don’t want that. For either of us.

I smile down at him, brushing a wayward curl out of his eyes. “Better than okay.” It takes a second, but the uncertainty fades, and he smiles back, eyes bright like autumn leaves. His hair is a mess of dark curls, lips red and a little puffy, and I’ve made his skin pink with my stubble.

I’ve never seen a more captivating sight.

My stomach flutters as his smile widens because he’s looking back at me with the same expression.

I wait for it to hit.

One, two . . . there it is.

Panic.

I like Vic. I could like him a whole lot more, so fucking easily, but where is this going? I know it’s early days, and I’m probably jumping the gun, but I can’t go through that again.

I don’t want Vic to see how worried I am, so I carefully pull out and dispose of the condom. I grab my discarded T-shirt to clean us both up, then pull the quilt up and lie back down.

He’s rolled onto his side, so I do the same.

I know I’m doing a shit job at hiding my feelings because his brow furrows and he cups my jaw, thumb tracing back and forth over my cheek. “I don’t think you are okay,” he whispers. “Talk to me.”

Fuck. Sean. Way to ruin the mood.

But I wasn’t lying about needing honesty in a relationship. And whatever ours ends up looking like, I need to know I can trust Vic to tell me the truth.

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