Key Grip by Vicki Tharp

Author:Vicki Tharp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JPC Publishing

12

Grant waited on the steps to his apartment for Sebastian. Time ticked by, but still Sebastian didn’t show. Had he changed his mind? Wouldn’t be a surprise. It wasn’t like Grant had been the best company that night. He wouldn’t blame Sebastian one bit if he’d thought better of it and bailed.

He’d about given up when headlights turned into his complex. Grant stood and waited, feeling that little flip in his chest that was becoming all too familiar every time he saw Sebastian.

Sebastian parked and trudged up the steps with a paper bag tucked against his side. When he got even with Grant on the steps, he rubbed his thumb across the crease between Grant’s brows.

“What’s the matter? Did you think I ditched you?”

“Of course not.” Grant climbed the stairs before Sebastian read the lie on his face.

“Wait.” At the door, Sebastian stopped him with a hand on his arm. Grant turned to him. “You thought I wouldn’t come when I said I would?”

“I wouldn’t have blamed you if you hadn’t.”

Sebastian fisted his free hand in Grant’s hair, the light bite of pain getting his attention before Sebastian’s lips fell on his. Just a brush, and a hint of what they’d shared before. “I wanted to be here. I wouldn’t have come otherwise. Okay?”

“Yeah. Sure. Whatever.”

Again, that lick of pain at the back of his head. “I mean it.”

Reaching up, Grant took Sebastian’s hand and led him into the apartment where they collapsed on the couch. Only the kitchen light was on from when he’d left that morning. Sebastian dropped the bag on the coffee table and pulled out a couple of beers. He twisted off the top on one and handed it to Grant before opening his own.

“Trying to get me drunk?”

“It’s not the answer,” Sebastian allowed, “but it can be an answer. Drink up.”

Grant didn’t feel like talking, and Sebastian seemed content to let him be. Somewhere near the bottom of his third beer, Grant said, “Stay the night?”

“That sounds good.” Sebastian stood and held out his hand.

“Now?”

“It’s late. We both have an early day.”

They abandoned their empties on the coffee table for the night, and Grant allowed Sebastian to drag him into the bedroom. With care, Sebastian helped Grant undress.

When Sebastian had stripped him down to his underwear, Grant said, “Those, too.”

“We don’t have to do anything.”

“What if I wanna?” The petulance in his voice couldn’t be helped after downing three beers in the time it had taken Sebastian to drink part of one.

“I’m not sure you’re in any shape to—”

“I’m buzzed, but it’s not like I’m too far gone to give consent.”

“I’m not so sure about that.”

Because the room swayed, Grant plopped on the bed and watched Sebastian strip. Maybe the beer had gone to his head more than he’d thought. Not enough to not want Sebastian, just enough to push the maudlin thoughts to the back of his mind. They could be paralyzing if Grant allowed it, and he thanked whatever gods that be that Sebastian—a very naked, very aroused, Sebastian—was there to take his mind off his failures.

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