What He Needs (Desires Book 1) by E.M. Denning

Author:E.M. Denning [Denning, E.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing
Published: 2017-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Craig

Craig hated feeling like this, like he wasn’t enough. Wasn’t good enough. Wasn’t brave enough. Wasn’t over Tim enough. Maybe he was over Tim, but there were things related to Tim that he hadn't gotten over.

But Alan tugged him close and Craig rested his head on Alan’s chest and breathed him in and maybe, just maybe, he would be enough for Alan. He’d let all his quivering insecurities hang out and instead of scoffing at him or making him feel like less, Alan tugged him close and held him and told him he had the right to feel whatever emotions he was feeling. In that moment Craig believed that this could be different—was different—more different and more real than anything he’d ever felt.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then one more because Alan smelled so fucking good, so fresh and clean that Craig wanted to climb into his lap and hold him and kiss him and do things to him that make them both messy and dishevelled. Instead, he looked up at Alan and smiled. “Next time I get stuck in my head I’m going to demand that you hug me.” Craig slid his arms around Alan and raised himself up on his tiptoes. Alan met him halfway and they stood in the dining room, kissing until the food was cool enough to eat.

Craig loved kissing Alan. He loved that Alan was taller than him and he loved the way Alan held him tight with his large, powerful hands. He loved it when Alan’s cheeks were smooth and freshly shaved and he loved kissing him when they had stubble that scratched at his skin. He loved the softness of his mouth and the way the intensity lit up every synapse in Craig’s brain. In the past, kissing had been a means to an end, but kissing Alan could easily be a main event.

When the kiss came to an end Alan’s arms were still wrapped around him and Craig sighed happily.

“Better?” Alan asked before planting a gentle kiss on Craig’s forehead.

“Yeah. I am.” The amount of conviction that came out in Craig’s voice shocked himself a little. He was feeling better. Alan was so calm about everything and so matter of fact that it made it easy for Craig to believe him. Everything would be okay no matter what his uncle thought of Alan. “I’m starving.”

Craig and Alan sat down to eat and for a few minutes Craig stayed quiet and let himself soak in the experience of eating with someone at a table like an adult. With Tim, they often ate in front of the television, or standing in the kitchen. Tim never took him out to eat and he certainly didn’t cook for him. Then, when it was just him, he’d often grab a bite in the restaurant at the hotel, standing up in the corner or he’d take it to the break room and eat on one of the sofas. It didn't make sense, but it made him feel like him and Alan were as serious as they claimed to be.

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