Twice Shy by Sally Malcolm

Author:Sally Malcolm [Malcolm, Sally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“What do you want?” Joel breathed as they kissed, sprawled on his beautiful leather sofa. “Tell me what you like.”

His house was amazing, all polished hardwood floors and painted walls in calming, earthy colors. Not that Ollie had taken the ten-cent tour yet. After climbing back up to the Majestic and collecting the car, they’d both been so amped-up they’d fallen on each other as soon as the front door closed.

Now they were in an open-plan living room with wide picture windows overlooking, he assumed, a yard. It was too dark to see out, but Joel hadn’t bothered closing the wooden blinds after switching on the table lamp, so Ollie assumed it was private.

“I like anything,” he said, his voice loud in the quiet of the house. So quiet, just the distant rustle of leaves outside and the ticking of the refrigerator in the kitchen. He’d learned to relish quiet.

“Anything?” The gentle lamplight softened the angles of Joel’s face, and with his mussed-up hair falling forward, he looked warm and approachable even in his smart blazer. It had matched his eyes in the restaurant, but here they looked darker.

Ollie cupped his jaw, enjoying the subtle roughening of evening shadow against his palm. “I just want to feel like an adult,” he said. Did that sound weird? “To be myself.”

Smiling, Joel ran his fingers up Ollie’s arm to his shoulder. “I like this sweater. The color suits you.”

“Thanks. It was a present from my mom last Christmas. I don’t wear it often, I don’t want it to get messed up.”

“Special occasions only?”

He grinned. “Definitely.”

“The last time I…fooled around with a guy was over ten years ago,” Joel said, his hand resting on Ollie’s shoulder. “I know it shouldn’t, but this kind of feels like a big deal to me.”

“I haven’t hooked up with anyone since my boyfriend dumped me a couple months after I got the boys, so… I guess it feels like kind of a big deal to me too.”

Joel’s eyes widened. “Your boyfriend dumped you because of Rory and Luis?”

“Axel was barely twenty. He was right to split, he hadn’t signed on for any of this. I didn’t blame him.” He squeezed Joel’s hand. “But— Let’s not talk about that. I want to…” His pulse kicked up a notch. “I want to let go. I’m nobody’s parent tonight.”

Leaning forward, he captured Joel’s mouth in another electric kiss. It prompted a low growl from Joel as he slipped his arms around Ollie’s waist, pulling him down until he lay on top of him. They kissed on, helpless, the soft leather warming beneath them and entirely too many clothes between them.

Breathless, Ollie pushed himself up on his elbows and smiled at the sight of Joel. He’d wondered what he’d look like undone and this was it: hair disheveled, eyes wide, lips parted and glistening as he caught his breath, skin flushed beneath the shadow on his jaw. Ollie smiled, running a fingertip down from Joel’s chin to the base of his throat and tugging lightly on the button of his shirt.

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