Frozen Heart by Heidi Cullinan

Author:Heidi Cullinan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781945116025
Publisher: Heidi Cullinan
Published: 2017-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

THE TANGLED BEDROOM cosplay had started out as nothing more than playful banter. Their apartment’s AC had gone out, Walter had kicked off the sheets, and Kelly had half removed them, then tangled himself in them until he’d become fully trussed. When they’d woken, Walter teased him he looked like Rapunzel. Sleepy, sexy Kelly had invited his Flynn Rider to ravish him, and…well, things happened Walter wasn’t apologizing for.

When Walter had spied the blue vest in a shop window, he couldn’t resist it, knowing it would make him look that much more like his lover’s ideal cartoon hero. It got him epically laid too, and it turned out it was fun to play around like that. So who could blame him for hunting down a pair of boots and pants to complete the outfit?

Kelly had a little harder time. He wanted to play too, but he was shy about wearing a dress.

Walter did his best to urge him out of his reticence. “It’s just you and me. I certainly don’t mind. You’d be cute, I think.”

Kelly kept saying no. Then one day, no warning, Walter came home and found the lights turned off, curtains drawn. Someone grabbed him, and he gasped. Then he felt Kelly’s lips by his ear.

“Struggling is pointless.”

A delicious shiver ran down Walter’s spine, followed by another as his vision adjusted enough to note Kelly wore not only a dress but a blonde wig. Long blonde wig. Not as long as movie Rapunzel’s, but long enough that Kelly had enough to bind his Flynn Rider and lead him to the bed and have his way with him.

Walter had trouble focusing to this day, thinking about that afternoon.

Since then, every so often, they got out their costumes and played the scene together. Sometimes Kelly suggested it. Sometimes Walter did. It had become a kind of ultimate wonder, not something they were ashamed of but something private and special, like their own secret garden.

Tonight, the night they were no longer boyfriends but fiancés, Walter dressed in his Flynn Rider outfit with trembling hands. It was the first time he’d been alone with his own thoughts since he’d proposed, and the gravity of it all washed over him like a tide. He was marrying Kelly. Walter didn’t have words to describe the feelings inside him. Relief, yes, happiness, yes—but there was more, so much more. He felt as if he’d been floating in an ocean and the buoy he’d been clinging to had just anchored itself to the shore.

His old advisor, Dr. Williams, had told Walter once that he was a shark who had to keep swimming or he’d die. Every day he spent with Kelly, he dared to let himself slow down, to consider stopping to test that fear.

He gripped his blue vest tight, trying to bleed off the pressure in his chest.

I want to be happy with Kelly. I want to let go with Kelly. I don’t want to be alone anymore. I don’t want to be the shark.

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