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“How’s your head?” He asks.

“Which one?”

He laughs.

“Because the one between my legs is wondering why I’m being such an asshole.”

“You can’t come at all right? It’s too much with a concussion.”

I could lie to him, but dying on him, no matter how unlikely, would really suck.

“Yeah, it’s too much.”

“Sorry for getting you worked up with no place to go.”

Fuck, if he could stop biting his lip maybe I wouldn’t be aching so much right now.“It’s okay.”

I get up and wet a towel for him before going back into his room and wiping the cum off his chest and stomach.

He watches me, his eyes flickering between me and the towel, looking shy and turned on.

“How do you feel?” He asks. “Now you’re not a virgin anymore?”

“Does that count?”

He shrugs. “I guess you get to decide what counts as sex.”

“I don’t feel different.” I say honestly. “It felt like the most natural thing in the world.”

19

STEFANOS

Alexei is asleep beside me on the pillow. Last night comes flooding back.

We must have been asleep for well over ten hours. It was just getting dark out when he crawled into bed with me.

Shit!

“Alexei!” I shake him, practically straddling him.

He startles awake, making a weird noise, which, in retrospect, now I know he’s not dead, is completely understandable.

“What?”

“Sorry.” I climb off him and cover myself with the comforter, suddenly feeling shy about the fact I’m completely naked and he’s still wearing his sweats and a t-shirt. “I thought you’d been asleep too long.”

He rubs his eyes through a laugh. “Just an FYI, not letting people with a concussion sleep is a myth, you just need to make sure they’re still breathing. And if I didn’t drop dead by now, so long as I don’t do anything crazy, I’m not gonna randomly die in my sleep.”

“Okay.” I cringe. “Good to know.”

He turns his head on the pillow, his gaze roaming greedily over all the parts of my body on show above the comforter.

“What?”

“You’re so fucking pretty.”

I scrunch my nose. “Pretty?”

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