Freedom in Falling by J. Emery

Author:J. Emery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pansexual, bisexual, art, coffeeshop, bondage, kink, adhd, anxiety, gay, mm romance, photography, photographer, bdsm
Publisher: Still Life Press
Published: 2021-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

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"He kissed me." Noah clutched the phone like a lifeline as his nerves threatened to rattle him apart like a rocket burning up on reentry.

"What did I tell you?" Margot barked back. Part of the snapping might have been due to the early hour. He knew never to call her before noon and yet he'd done it anyway because the alternative was pacing circles in his apartment while watching the clock and he'd done enough of that in the last two months. He needed to shake up his routine. Find new ways to explore his anxiety. Meet new people. Blow them on the floor of his studio. Maybe even split them open like fresh fruit. They could try that next time. If there was a next time.

He'd already been back to the studio this morning to clean up the evidence of last night, throwing the windows wide and freezing his ass off while he scrubbed spilled Chinese food and cum off the floor. Ames had caught him on the way back out, fixing him with one of their eerily observant stares, so he'd done the only logical thing: bought their studio time and their silence for the next month. They mostly used the space for the quiet it provided these days anyway. That could be found anywhere and this way Noah didn't have to worry about leaving any unsightly stains for them by accident.

"You told me don't do the thing. But I didn't do the thing. He kissed me. I'm the kissed party, Margot. I wasn't prepared for that. I thought he hated me." He paused. "Actually, I still don't know that he doesn't. But!"

There was a measured silence broken only by the clatter as Margot clawed her way out of bed and found her glasses. A muttered curse as she bounced off a wall. He'd once crashed at her apartment after a night of consolation drinking and he could remember most of the steps. She was worse at waking up than he was. She'd tried to give him coffee with mustard in it the first time. "I hope it was worth it."

"It was," he assured her. "But behold my incredible surprise. And also my restraint. We only kissed."

Her silence held an air of skepticism. In the background, he heard the sounds of someone else talking, the voice muffled, but with the unmistakable perkiness of Margot's girlfriend.

"Okay and I got him off. But it was only my hand. And my mouth. A little. I kept expecting him to run away halfway through. I'm so confused."

"Just a thought, but maybe you should be talking to him instead of me," she suggested dryly.

"That sounds terrifying."

"Then I don't know what to tell you, Noah. You made your hookup. Now you have to... lie in it—you know what, never mind. It's too early for this shit. Go talk to him. You had his dick in your mouth less than twenty-four hours ago. He can't scare you that much."

Noah snorted derisively. She only said that because she hadn't met him.

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