Groomzilla by Tere Michaels

Author:Tere Michaels [Michaels, Tere]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

OWEN DIDN’T want to have this discussion, not so soon and certainly not in the middle of a business weekend. But Daniel looked hopeful and earnest, the wind ruffling his hair and collar as they stood in the middle of the forest.

“Come on, let’s go back to your cabin and we can, ah, talk on the way.” Daniel fell into step beside him as they walked toward the main building. It was only a few steps before Daniel brushed their hands together. “So you want to play like Truth or Dare or something?” he asked lightly.

“That might help, actually,” Owen agreed, tangling their fingers together.

“Truth or dare?”

“Truth.” Owen took a deep breath.

Daniel hummed. “When you invited me to lunch, were you trying to get into my pants or actually get me to agree to the makeover?”

“Yes,” Owen teased.

“I’ll make you do a dare if you don’t answer properly, Mr. Grainger, and fair warning, we are very close to a large body of water, so skinny-dipping could be a possibility.”

“Ah, well, in that case—it was both. I needed to tell you about the makeover and I wanted to spend time with you.”

“You asked Ander about me,” Daniel said as they reached the main driveway.

“I certainly did. He went on and on about how brilliant you are, how you went to Harvard. Very impressive stuff.” Owen stopped their walk, then turned to look Daniel in the eye. “Plus I was sincerely desperate to get into your pants.”

Daniel rolled his eyes, but the delighted smirk was unmistakable. “Your turn.”

“Ah, truth or dare, then?”

“Truth.”

“Have you and Ander ever slept together?” Owen had to ask, because the curiosity was killing him. They were so different, so opposite that it was almost like a comedy team or an experiment.

Cracking up, Daniel kept walking, dragging Owen behind him. “God no. Roommates only. Best friends. I tried once, but, uh, I’m not attracted to him at all.”

“So not even friends with benefits?”

“Fuck no. And moving on. More truth,” Daniel said, dodging rocks as he began to pick up steam. “Have you ever fucked Victor?”

Owen didn’t expect that one—not even in his faintest concerns. “Victor’s straight.”

“Oh, okay. I wasn’t sure.” Daniel stopped on the hill; the slope made him taller than Owen, and he looked down at him curiously. “You don’t get along, do you? I mean—you pretend you do, but you don’t.”

A beam of sunlight forced Owen to look away as he said, “No, we don’t get along. It’s, uh—a very long story, but suffice it to say, he doesn’t care for me and I don’t care for him.”

“Must suck sitting across from him every day.”

Owen laughed. “Yeah, well. It does. I hide in the kitchen a lot.”

Daniel said, “Hmmm,” and Owen knew the next question, rules clearly be damned.

He stepped up the slope until they were eye to eye and dropped a kiss on the corner of Daniel’s mouth. “When I was sixteen and modeling, supervision was… nonexistent. I lived in a flat with five other boys, on my own, far away from home.

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