XOXO: A Bundle of Cozy Novellas by Elle Keaton

Author:Elle Keaton [Keaton, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dirty Dog Press LLC
Published: 2024-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

OWEN

Owen cursed to himself. Dammit, dammit, he couldn’t treat Edmund like one of his hookups. Edmund didn’t deserve that. He was, in Owen’s opinion, everything that was good and kind. Not selfish and shallow like the men he’d slept with in the past. Men who worried about their perfect hair, how their clothes fit, or if they were being seen with the right crowd. Owen resolved that minute to treat Edmund with the respect he deserved. He wasn’t a one-night stand.

Maybe even as recently as a year ago, Owen knew, he would’ve been foolish enough to care that Edmund was older, didn’t have a six-pack—didn’t have visible abs—that his hair was starting to go silver and he probably picked his clothes off the rack without really looking at them. None of that mattered now. When Owen looked at Edmund, he didn’t see any of that. He saw a man whose heart shone, a man who’d never learned to hide his feelings. A man who could break Owen’s heart—but he knew never would.

It was selfish of him to want more, to want to hoard what Edmund offered with his sweet glances. But, he mused as he dug through the refrigerator finding the onion and bell pepper they’d bought earlier along with some pre-grated parmesan cheese and put them on the counter, he wanted Edmund for himself. The capital-Q question was, would Edmund still look at Owen the same when he found out how much Owen had slept around. How cruel he’d been in the past, even if it was inadvertent. Careless cruelty was just as toxic as purposeful malice.

He began chopping the vegetables, the sound of the knife edge smacking against the cutting board louder than it should’ve been.

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