Once in a Lifetime by Cassie Decker

Author:Cassie Decker [Decker, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781644050552
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-12-17T07:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT morning, Rangi woke gradually to bright summer sunlight peeking through the blinds. He had stayed in the main house for a while after it got dark the night before, helping his mum finish the baking. Together they had iced the cookies she’d made to pass out to family and wrapped up the rewena paraoa bread to sell at the café once it opened after Christmas. He hadn’t gotten back to his flat until almost midnight and had readied himself for bed without the lights on so he wouldn’t wake Peter.

Still half-asleep, Rangi curled his arm around something warm pressed to his chest. He nuzzled into a soft head of hair sharing his pillow and breathed in the scent of citrus and coconut. The reasoning side of his brain tried reminding him he hadn’t gone to sleep with anyone in his bed, but he didn’t bother to listen. It was so nice to hold someone like this. A gentle wave of arousal flushed through him when a supple rear end pushed back against his crotch, and he couldn’t help but rock his hips forward a little. A barely audible moan hit Rangi’s ears with the movement, and he was instantly awake.

He opened his eyes wide to find Peter nestled to his chest. His body fit perfectly against Rangi’s, like they were two halves coming together to make a whole. It felt so right. But he still meant what he’d said to Peter yesterday; hookups with a person who lived halfway across the world never ended well and someone always got hurt. Even if that someone smelled amazing and had a smile that could melt your heart.

Rangi sighed and got out of bed quietly. Peter was still fast asleep, stirring only a little when Rangi moved away from him. He went to the kitchen to start a pot of coffee. Last night his mum had asked about Peter, curious about the foreigner with the bright blue eyes. He’d explained he was only helping him out after what happened to his car and hotel—just trying to be a good person, like his mum had always instilled in her children, nothing more. Ever the matchmaker, she’d told him to invite him their Christmas Eve beach cookout—Peter shouldn’t have to be alone on his birthday after all. Rangi had rolled his eyes but promised he would. Mum didn’t take no for an answer.

Thinking about his mum and his birthdays as a kid, Rangi had an idea. He grinned to himself as he rummaged around in his cabinets for the ingredients for fairy bread. The coffeepot started gurgling and filling with aromatic dark roast while Rangi buttered two pieces of bread and shook out a generous shower of rainbow sprinkles onto each slice. He looked up over the bar-style countertop when he heard Peter start to wake up.

Peter stretched on his bed, then sat up, blinking his eyes open slowly. His hair was sticking up in all directions like he’d been made love to all night long instead of the actual, more innocent reality.

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