Husky & Hot by Mary E Thompson

Author:Mary E Thompson [Thompson, Mary E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Mary E Thompson
Published: 2016-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Drew went into the kitchen and got a snack, in his naked gloriousness. I cleaned up and was going to join him before he left but found him in my bed. “What are you doing?” I asked as he slid under the covers.

“You don’t want me to stay?” he asked, sounding hurt.

“No, it’s fine. You’ve never stayed on a weeknight before.”

He shrugged. “I’m not ready to leave you just yet. If you don’t want me here I can go.”

“I love having you here. I’m just a little surprised, that’s all.”

I climbed under the covers with him after making sure the door was locked and all the lights were off. I threw away my melted tub of ice cream and made a mental note to get more. Drew pulled me close to him, kissing my forehead and tangling our legs together with our bodies pressed against each other.

In the darkness was where we talked. We could share without judgement when the lights were out. We could pretend there wasn’t anyone there to hear the confessions of our hearts when it was dark. And that’s what Drew did when the lights went out. He confessed.

“My first tattoo was something I did because I thought it would be cool. In college I was a complete nerd. Xander was always trying to get me to have more fun but I was focused on doing well. My mom worked so hard to get me a chance at college and I wasn’t going to screw it up. Once I finished college, with honors, I was proud of what I’d done, but I wanted a chance to be crazy, so I got a tattoo.”

“Which one?”

He laughed. “The tribal band on my arm. I thought it looked badass and I was anything but. I was a beanpole. I looked like a pretty typical engineer. Getting that tattoo was my way of saying there was more to me than I looked.”

I could relate to that feeling. All my life people had judged me based on my appearance. Being husky was more of a problem than being a beanpole, but I could understand Drew wanting to show he wasn’t just a scrawny kid with nothing more than a brain to offer.

“Xander helped me after college. We started working out together and I filled out. The band looks a bit more badass now.” I laughed. “I added to it because I liked the sharp lines and the look. The design is something I actually drew myself, shapes I found myself repeating over and over again whenever I would draw on a sheet of paper. It’s a way for me to remind myself how hard I worked to get to where I am.”

“It’s beautiful,” I told him, remembering the black ink all over his arms. I didn’t want to say anything else or ask about the others in case he wasn’t ready to talk about them.

“The compass on my arm I got a few years ago. After Mandy and Xander met I knew the people we’d thought of as friends could easily turn out to be something other than that.

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