An Academic Dilemma by Alix Bekins

Author:Alix Bekins [Bekins, Alix]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: m/m romance, contemporary
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
Published: 2010-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

BY THE time class was over all Rodrigo had to show for it were a few pages of notes and a couple of glares from his fellow classmates for obviously spacing out. He needed to get his head together before his meeting with Professor Sullivan, so he grabbed a quick cup of coffee and drank it on the way to the library. He planned to pick up some materials he’d requested through Inter-Library Loan.

He filled out the necessary paperwork, then shoved the books and copies into his backpack as he walked away from the ILL desk. A hand shot out from between the bookshelves and pulled him abruptly into an out of the way corner and up against a familiar body. Before Rodrigo could do more than open his mouth to protest, Ian pressed their lips together in a ravenous and unmistakably claiming kiss.

Three minutes later, thoroughly kissed, licked, groped, and aroused, with his lips swollen and tender, Rodrigo staggered out of the library in the direction of the Art History department. Ian hadn’t answered his “What the hell?” with anything more than a wink and a wave as he’d walked back to the library office.

Now Rodrigo was almost late to see Professor Sullivan again.

They were making good progress on uncovering some hidden aspects of the sculptures in question, and Rodrigo felt more proud than he thought he should when Professor Sullivan said that he was pleased with their work. They’d found some evidence that a particular set of carvings had been made with some unusual tools, and that therefore the artist might have been a foreigner. Some of the prints that Rodrigo had found through the digitization project that Ian had pointed him to lent support to Sullivan’s theory, and it looked like there was enough information that the idea would turn into a whole chapter in his book.

He tried not to squirm like a dork when Professor Sullivan smiled and said he’d be sure to give Rodrigo due credit for his research assistance.

When he got up to leave at the end of the meeting, he was a little thrown mentally off-balance when Professor Sullivan stopped him, one hand on his shoulder and the other one held out to shake Rodrigo’s hand.

“Thank you for all of your work. I know a lot of my colleagues think this topic is dreadfully dull so I’m quite glad to have been assigned an assistant who actually finds it interesting.”

Professor Sullivan’s large hand gripped his, somehow making him feel small and almost fragile. When fingertips pressed into Rodrigo’s wrist, touching the abrasions from the night before and making him gasp, the other man’s brow wrinkled. Rather than letting go, Sullivan held on more firmly, pulling Rodrigo’s hand towards himself and turning it over.

Rodrigo didn’t resist.

He stood there, silent and somehow a combination of excited and embarrassed and aroused and afraid as Professor Sullivan pushed up Rodrigo’s sleeve and looked at the raw band of reddened skin. Neither of them said anything. The sound of Rodrigo’s heart pounding in his ears was almost deafening.

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