Page 46 of The Holiday Fail

And a little part of me whispered that person was me.

I laughed, thinking how silly this all was. At the club, I’d listed all those reasons, telling Levi that I was going to leave eventually so that he wouldn’t get involved with me and risk his heart. But it looked like Levi wasn’t the one I should have been worried about.

“What?” Levi asked with a small smile and curious glance.

“Nothing. It’s just…you’re amazing, you know that?” I answered, and that earned me an almost blinding beam from him.

He stepped closer, all the way into my space, and leaned in to whisper so that only I could hear, “I can show you just how amazing I am later tonight when I have all the time in the world to teach you new skills to make up for neglecting you on your first pumpkin-carving experience.”

My heart skipped a beat at his implication. Or at least what I thought he was implying, because the only thing we hadn’t done in the bedroom yet was penetrative sex.

The words got stuck in my throat, and all I could do was nod and pretend like I wasn’t hard just thinking about having anal sex with Levi.

Honestly, I didn’t even know how I got through the rest of the pumpkin event. I was in a daze until I realized Levi and I were the only ones left in the dining room, and the fucking Doves of Destiny had been carved on the pumpkin I’d been working on too.

I had some awareness of carving my pumpkin, but didn’t realize what the design was until now. I tried to hide the pumpkin among the few that were left in the room when Levi wasn’t looking. Some guests took theirs with them while others couldn’t since they had flown here.

I thought I’d gotten away with the perfect crime, and if Levi saw the doves on the pumpkins, he’d think it was a tourist who’d copied the town’s motif instead of pinning the work on me, because I surely couldn’t explain why I’d carved the stupid doves when I made such a big deal about their lore being a scam.

Levi grinned at me, and the twinkle in his eyes told me he knew. But at least he didn’t bring it up, so I was very happy to keep pretending too. We cleaned up the stations and set the tables back where they belonged. After removing the tarp from the ground, we picked up the carved pumpkins to line them by the front door on our way out.

Once home, I couldn’t spin around and pin Levi to the door fast enough. He kissed me back but mostly laughed at my eagerness.

“Wait. I’m covered in pumpkin guts,” he moaned when I kissed down his chin to the sweet pulse by his neck. I’d learned over the weeks that he didn’t use any cologne, and the smell of pine and sunshine was purely him. I couldn’t get enough of it.

“I don’t mind,” I said. In fact, the slightly sweet and earthy pumpkin scent mixed nicely with his. He smelled good enough to gobble right up.

Levi apparently had much better control of his desires,because he calmly pushed me back a few steps. “Let’s wash up quickly, and I’ll meet you in my room, okay?”

I let out a huff of air, pouting in case that would serve to convince him that falling in bed right now was very crucial to my dick. Levi only laughed and pressed a soft kiss to my cheek. “You better hurry,” he shot over his shoulder before sidestepping me and disappearing into his room.

That shot me into action as I took the fastest shower in my life. I used both hands, foaming myself up until my entire body was like a giant bubble of soap, and scrubbed every single possible crevice.

It wasn’t until I was rinsing myself off that I felt silly for how impatient I was being. If my best friend saw me, he’d tease me for acting like an inexperienced virgin, and sex was anything but new for me.

Then I thought about how I was going to get to experience it all with Levi, and it did feel new. I’d never been this excited to have sex with someone, even as a teen. So forgive me if I’d padded to Levi’s room, hair still dripping wet, and in nothing but the towel that did a poor job covering the boner between my legs.

I knocked on his door, just in case Levi needed more time for himself but was never more glad when I heard him calling for me to enter. Opening the door, I stopped breathing at the sight that greeted me.

Levi was fully naked, chest pressed against his bed, ass in the air facing the door and giving me the full view. He looked over his shoulder, the movement jiggling his ass so seductively that it felt like a sudden force of air pushed right through me again.

“You’re finally joining the party?” he purred. He slid his hand around himself, finger landing on his thigh, then slowly draggingit up the delicious smooth skin, past his butt cheek, and down his crack to his pink hole.

It was only then that I realized he was already lubed up. A tiny bit of the slippery lubricant oozed out as he slipped a finger inside. The way his hole swallowed it up, as if seeking something more, had me feeling feral.

A deep rumble went through me as I strode to him and grabbed hold of his hand to stop him.

“That’s mine,” I said as I pulled his finger out of his hole. “You’re supposed to be teaching me, not taking away my learning opportunity.”

Levi grinned over his shoulder but didn’t protest. He used his other hand to toss me the bottle of lube that was beside him. “Okay, student. I guess the first step of any teacher’s job is to gather what level said student is at. So…”—he peered at me with a questioning glance—“have you done anal before?”

I quickly lubed up two fingers, impatient to get my fingers inside of him. “I’ve done anal before, but never with a man,” I stated as I slipped a finger inside slowly, so I didn’t hurt him.

Levi didn’t even react when I slipped in past the knuckle. He’d definitely gotten the party started before me and that had me feeling so jealous I was pushing in my second digit without giving him time to adjust.

A tiny gasp escaped him at the sudden action, but his hole quickly sucked me in, still greedy for me as he tried to swallow my fingers as deeply as he could. He was so soft but also gripped me so tightly that I knew he’d feel like heaven around my cock.

“Seems like you know the basics,” Levi said with a chuckle. “But there’s one important difference between a man and a woman.”

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