Forgiveness by Grace R. Duncan

Author:Grace R. Duncan [Duncan, Grace R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-270-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

ERIC LAY in the early-morning quiet, with Ben tight against him, his arms around his mate. He liked that the thought—the idea of having a mate—didn’t bother him nearly as much anymore as it used to. The concept of bonding still scared him, but he could admit even that wasn’t as bad as it’d been.

Everything with Ben was so different than what he’d had with Kim. It wasn’t gender, he was sure of that. Some of it was that Ben was his destined mate, and that undoubtedly helped. But that wasn’t all of it. Everything felt different, from simple touch to the pet name—and not just because it was in Spanish. She used to call him “baby,” but when he compared it to “cariño,” Ben’s felt more… real, somehow, like there was more meaning behind it. Probably because there was.

Eric was sure, somewhere along the way, he’d loved her. While he wasn’t quite ready to say the words to Ben, he already knew what he felt for Ben was different and more than he had for her.

The sad part to him was that he wasn’t sure she’d ever loved him. She’d said it, at least up until he’d claimed her. But he couldn’t remember her saying it more than a handful of times after. And thinking back on it now, especially when he compared it to Ben saying it, Eric was sure she hadn’t meant it. She might have loved the idea of him—or what she and his parents wanted him to be—but she didn’t love him. The him who wanted to craft leather goods for a living. Not because he couldn’t go to college—he’d done quite well in high school and would have been fine in college—but because he loved what he did for the leather business, creating designs and pictures in the leather for them to make bags and other things with. She didn’t love the him who wanted a nice small house, a few pups, and a more or less quiet life.

Ben had fallen in love with him when he hadn’t even been mostly human, when he’d still been struggling to remember how to use a knife and fork, when he’d been trying to relearn how to filter basic smells and sounds. And when Ben had said those words, terrified they’d freak Eric out, there’d been nothing but real emotion behind them.

Eric closed his eyes and buried his face in Ben’s short brown curls. He took a deep inhale, letting Ben’s scent fill him. His cock twitched, remembering the night before, remembering Ben’s lips and hands on him, the insane need and want going through him. He’d had a few good nights with Kim. But he could admit, he didn’t think any of them—even though what he and Ben had done had been so basic—would compare. He’d wanted and been wanted, and there’d been absolutely no doubt about it.

He wanted Ben again, though he didn’t want to keep suggesting sex that wouldn’t allow them to bond. Once or twice might not bother Ben, but after a while, Eric was sure it would get to him.

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