Page 68 of Dared

“It’s good that he doesn’t have a problem with me being with you, isn’t it?” Leo murmured.

It’s not good that he didn’t bother calling back his own fucking son.

“Leo, you deserve so much more.” Stroking my hand through his hair and then lightly scraping my nails over his nape, I sighed. “I am glad that he doesn’t seem to have any issues with you being with me. I just wish…”

“I know. But I have you, don’t I. And your family.” His words were firm, stated as fact rather than as a question, and some of the tightness in my chest eased.

“Yeah. You have us, and you have our friends— Fuck. Speaking of our friends, when are we gonna tell them? And do you think they’ll be as unsurprised as everyone else seems to be?”

Leo’s laugh was muffled against my throat, his breath tickling my skin, making me laugh too.

“They’ve made comments about us being boyfriends before, so I don’t think they’ll be surprised. When do you want to tell them?”

I thought about it for a minute. “We’re not acting any differently around each other, are we? Maybe we don’t need an official announcement. Maybe we should just carry on as we are. Or…” An idea came to me, and a slow smile spread across my face. “What if we post some photos together? See how long it takes for them to notice.”

It was a great plan, in my eyes. Not only would we get to troll our friends a bit—and they deserved it after all the boyfriend comments before they were true—but I’d also get to fill my camera roll with photos of my favourite person. Win-win.

“Oh. Okay, yeah.” He pushed himself upright, sliding off the end of the bed. Eyeing me from beneath his lashes, he tugged his lip between his teeth, shifting on his feet.

“What is it?” I couldn’t help smiling. He was so fucking cute when he went all shy.

“I wanted a photo of us for my phone wallpaper before, but I didn’t know if we could do that.”

“Of course we can do that. We could’ve done that before, too.” Rolling off the bed, I crossed the room to his gaming chair and took a seat. I patted my thighs. “Come here, boyfriend. Let’s get a photo of us looking all cute with our gaming headsets.”

When we’d arranged ourselves with Leo seated on my lap and both of us with our headsets on, I leaned into him, hooking my chin over his shoulder, both of us smiling at the selfie camera. I took a series of photos, turning my head to kiss Leo’s cheek in one of them, and then he twisted around, grabbed my head, and kissed my lips…

After that, we forgot all about the photos.

By the time I remembered what we’d originally been doing, we were on the bed, naked and breathless, coming down from the high of our orgasms, and my jaw was aching from sucking Leo’s dick. Totally worth it.

When I’d regained the use of my legs, I recovered my phone and returned to Leo. We cleaned up, and then I pulled the duvet over us and wrapped my arm around him, so he could curl into me as we went through the photos we’d taken. I stopped on an image showing the two of us leaning into each other, the sides of our headphones pressed together. We were both grinning at the camera, our faces a little blurry where Leo had knocked my hand with his as I was taking the photo. Despite the minor blur, we looked so fucking happy, it was almost radiating out of the screen.

“This is the one.” Opening my social media, I uploaded the photo, adding the caption “Gaming day with my favourite person,” followed by a heart emoji, and then I tagged Leo’s account. He only had a couple of posts on his profile, but I had the feeling that was about to change now we were officially together.

I was right…yet completely taken aback by what he did. Because I was scrolling through my notifications, I wasn’t really paying attention when he reached for his own phone, and I was totally unprepared for the notification that appeared on my screen.

“You tagged me in a photo as well?”

“Yeah.” Leo turned to kiss my cheek. “Look at it.”

“Fucking hell, baby.” I stared at the image on my screen.

“Too obvious?”

“Maybe, but I don’t care.” I placed my phone down next to me and then gently tugged his phone from his unresisting grip, placing it next to mine. “Come here.”

Leo shifted onto me, his legs tangling with mine as his body pressed me down into the mattress. “Hi,” he said, brushing his lips over mine.

“Hi. I love you.”

His cheeks flushed. Dipping his head, he smiled against my skin. “I love you.”

“That picture isn’t gonna leave anyone with any doubts.” I stroked my hand down his back. “It makes it all seem even more real.”

“It is real. That’s why I wanted to post the photo.”

“Yeah,” I said softly. “It’s real.”

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