Stumble Forward by Alex Jane

Author:Alex Jane [Jane, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Self
Published: 2018-09-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Seriously, I can’t believe you fell for it twice!” Jack laughed and then remembered himself, lowering his voice as Alec flicked on the light of the hotel room. “Once maybe, but twice!”

Alec was smiling but looked embarrassed. “I still can’t believe they told you that story.” He threw the keycard, his wallet and change down on the bedside cabinet and sat down heavily on the edge of the mattress. He watched Jack toeing off his shoes by the door and removing his jacket, and asked, “So you like them then?”

Jack smiled, genuine and warm, making his dimples deepen. “I do. I really do. And not just because they didn’t seem to have a problem with, y’know—” He made a vague hand gesture between the two of them. “ Us.”

Alec smirked and started to untie his shoes. “Why would they? I mean after the initial, ‘We’ve known you for eight years and now suddenly you’re with a guy?’ thing, it’s hardly a big deal anymore.”

Jack looked at him in surprise. “It is to some people, Alec. To a lot of people. Here, maybe not so much, but back home—” He walked to the bathroom, his thought trailing off and sighed, “Well, I guess if you all met at Berkley, things must be a little different there.”

Alec sat and listened to Jack brushing his teeth. When Jack walked out of the bathroom, Alec was ready to talk over geographically changing levels of tolerance and whether or not he’d upset Jack by claiming him as soon as Matt had asked or by behaving as if they were a couple all evening but the sight of Jack in nothing but his briefs made him whimper and forget his train of thought.

Jack smirked at his reaction and headed for the bed. Alec started to say, “I’m sorry I didn’t mean —” But Jack waved his words away.

“What I do want to know,” he said quietly, as he slid his thigh in between Alec’s knees, “the thing between you and Phil—” Alec tensed and Jack seemed to feel it and backtracked, “I’m sorry, it’s none of my business.” He shook his head and leaned down stroking the side of Alec’s face with his hand and pressed his lips to the top of Alec’s head.

Alec drank in the sight of him, his tanned skin, firm body, the bulge of his bicep, his sweet face, kind eyes and filthy mouth. His words were rough when they came. “Jack. Right now I’m feeling like everything is your business. You won’t like it though. It’s not—I wasn’t—”

Jack leaned forward and ran a hand down Alec’s arm, stilling his mouth. “It’s okay. Really. Why don’t you come to bed? We can talk about it in the morning.”

Alec shook his head. “Bed, yes but I feel like if I leave this ‘til morning, I won’t be able to go through with it.”

When Alec did eventually slip in beside Jack, kissing him all minty-fresh, he considered that maybe he should wait until morning as exhaustion suddenly swept over him.

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