Page 51 of His Boys to Protect

Ward: Haha! I agree.

Charlie grinned and bounced in his seat. Once he was still, he picked up his coffee and took a sip just as another text from Ward came in.

Ward: I'm gonna go make some coffee. One sec.

Charlie stilled.Uh oh. He held his phone in both hands, hesitating before he sent a message.

Me: Did I wake you up?

Charlie waited, but no response came in.

Me: Ward?

Me: Ward?

Me: Ward?

Me: Ward?

Ward: Hey, buddy. It's okay.

Ward: Sorry, I set my phone down to start the coffee machine. It's okay. Yes, you woke me up, but it's fine. Everything's fine. I promise.

Me: I'm sorry. :( I sometimes forget people don't wake up when I do and then I wake them up and it makes them cranky.

Ward: Charlie, I'll be fine, I swear. It's okay. I'm not upset.

Charlie heaved a sigh of relief. He picked up his coffee and took little sips while he stared at his phone, waiting for Ward. It was several minutes before the phone vibrated again.

Ward: Okay. Got coffee. :D

Charlie grinned and opened the camera app on his phone. He turned around, held out his phone, and took a picture of himself holding up his coffee mug, making sure to get aChristmas tree in the background. Charlie checked the picture to make sure it had turned out well, then sent it to Ward. He got an almost immediate response.

Ward: :D Cheers

Me: Show me!

A minute later, a picture similar to his own showed up in the thread: Ward, holding up a coffee mug, with some Christmas lights behind him.

Except Ward was naked.

Charlie's eyes went wide. Granted, he could only see the man from the chest up, but that part of him, at least, was bare. Charlie stared at the picture. At Ward's big muscles.

Oh. Was that why his Sky got so excited around Ward? Because Charlie definitely didn't look like that.

Charlie looked down at himself. At his own skinny arms. Ward's arms were probably twice as big around. Charlie knew people cared about things like that, though he'd never understood why. Then again, as he studied Ward's picture, he realized his penis was growing hard. “Hhnn.” Was it the muscles? Or just because Ward's skin was bare? Charlie had no idea.

Me: Ward?

Ward: Yeah, buddy?

Me: Can you teach me how to get big muscles like that?

Ward: Yeah, I could. But can you tell me why?

Me: Because then maybe my Sky will look at me the same way he looks at you.

Ward: Charlie, Sky LOVES you. Okay? He loves you just the way you are. I can tell from the way he looks at you. The way he talks about you. And besides that, there is NOTHING at all wrong with your body. You hear me? Nothing.

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