Merry in Moose Falls: A MM Holiday Novella by Emily Silver
Author:Emily Silver [Silver, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Travelin' Hoosier Books
Published: 2024-11-21T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Ten
CHARLIE
AM I DOING IT WRONG?
Holy shit.
Brooks is kissing me.
Me. Charlie.
Iâm stunned.
Brooksâs lips are warm and sweet, and when his hands cup my cheeks, it shocks me into moving.
âWait.â I push him away. âWait, stop.â
âAm I doing it wrong?â Thereâs a small smile playing at the corner of Brooksâs mouth now. So very different from the anger and jealousy I saw there earlier.
âYouâreâ¦doing it.â
âShit. Iâm fucking things up again.â Brooks spins on his heel. âFuck. I keep doing things to fuck up my life and I donât know how to stop.â
Brooks and I have been spiraling this week. I know it. He knows it. It has me fighting a smile because he came to the bar tonight because I was avoiding him.
I didnât know how to be around him after he heard that confession. And now, I just spewed word vomit all over him of everything that Iâve been feeling this week.
âI should just go,â Brooks tells me.
Except I donât want him to. I grab him and lay one on him.
I swallow his shock as he gasps. It takes him a minute to respond, but when his tongue slides against my lips, I react.
Brooks is kissing me back. Weâre kissing.
Again.
Itâs even better than the first one as his tongue tangles with mine.
Oh God.
I never wanted to imagine what it would be like to kiss Brooks. It wouldnât have done me or my fantasies any good.
But this? Itâs better than anything I ever could have hoped to imagine.
When Brooksâs warm hands drift lower, pulling me into his chest, I whimper.
Itâs perfect. Everything from his taste to his warm touch to how his pine scent floods my senses. Itâs overwhelming in the best way.
I donât know how long we stand outside kissing. I could stand here for the rest of my life and it wouldnât be long enough.
Until Brooks breaks the kiss. I follow his lips, not wanting to let go yet.
âCharlie,â he breathes. Brooks drops his forehead to mine.
I press my lips to his and take another kiss. And another. Before I have to peel myself off him so we donât get arrested for indecent exposure.
âBrooks.â
The two of us are standing here, breathing in each otherâs air. I donât want to say anything. I donât want to break the spell thatâs fallen over the two of us.
âYou know, when I came to the bar tonight, this wasnât exactly what I had in mind.â
âOh yeah? What did you have in mind?â I ask him.
âI just wanted to talk to you. Kissing definitely wasnât on the agenda.â
I smirk at him. âDo you want it to be on the agenda?â
Brooks nods against me. âYes. But Iâd prefer it if we maybe didnât do it in the middle of the street.â
âI wish I didnât have to go back to work.â
âYouâre not going to go back to dancing with that guy, are you?â
âWhy? Were you jealous?â
âI didnât like him touching you,â Brooks growls.
I canât hide the smile that spreads across my face. I feel it down to my toes.
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