Just Like That (Albin Academy) by Cole McCade

Author:Cole McCade [McCade, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2020-06-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Summer shouldn’t have pushed Fox.

That had been the only thing on his mind when he realized Fox was hyperventilating, standing in water up to mid-hip, his boxer-briefs soaking dark against his pale amber skin.

And his chest rising and falling in rapid wheezes, muscles constricting tight against his skin, as he froze in place.

It had taken less than a second for Summer to realize Fox wasn’t with him anymore.

Fox was somewhere else, somewhere dark, trapped inside his own head.

And Summer had done the only thing he could do:

Pulled him out of the water the moment he’d started struggling, panicking, and taken him into his arms as if he could somehow lock out whatever black nightmare had crawled into Fox’s thoughts, and keep him safe.

Maybe he was young, inexperienced; maybe Fox was so much older, so much stronger, hardened by dealing with things Summer couldn’t imagine.

But that was all he wanted, in the end.

To have the strength, the surety, to keep Fox safe.

To make him feel as sheltered, as protected, as Fox made him feel when he pulled Summer close and held him until the panic attacks calmed and he could breathe again.

So Summer held him.

He held him, listened to his breaths calm, stroked his fingers against his scalp, murmured to him—anything he could think of, anything to tell him it was okay.

It was okay to not stare his demons in the face.

Not now, maybe not ever.

Summer...

God, Summer would love him either way, whether he faced his fears or thrust them away forever.

And that was when it hit him, hard as a blow to the solar plexus, punching the breath from him and making his grasp on Fox tighten convulsively.

He...

He loved Fox Iseya.

Not just the idealized figurehead he had made of Fox during his childhood years.

But the very real, very vulnerable, very flawed and yet perfectly beautiful man currently trembling and damp in his arms.

He loved this difficult, strange man of subtle whims and irascible tempers, this quiet creature who tried to be a statue of graven stone but was instead all steel and sharp edges, and every time Summer’s heart bled with the cuts it only filled that much deeper with that slow-growing love he hadn’t even realized was creeping up on him with every day, every kiss that made him hope more and more that Fox could ever...

Could ever feel something for him.

But then Fox was straightening, looking down at him with those glacial silver eyes that suddenly weren’t so cold anymore, weren’t so closed, raw and open and driving into him with breathtaking force as their eyes locked.

As Fox’s long, agile fingers stroked along Summer’s cheeks, cradled his face.

As Fox whispered, “Help me.” Those lips descending, parted, heated. “Help me forget.”

Summer couldn’t be hearing, understanding that right.

But the feeling of Fox’s kiss could never be wrong.

And there was no mistaking the fire of Fox’s mouth on his own, the heat of his body, the pressure and desire and need building up between them as Summer sank into the wildness of Fox’s lips, the plundering desperation that seemed to beg something from him.

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