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Our eyes met across the room. Almost like he was talking about both me and Nacho at the same time.
Chapter 43
Daniel
Chase didn’t stay late, and it sucked when Shawn had to drive him home. I wanted to spend time with him after he’d been gone all day. Not that it hadn’t been nice to have my friend check in on me. For the first time in a while, it felt like people truly cared about what happened to me and I knew that was progress in the right direction. The direction of healing from the hellscape that Art had played on my self-worth.
“You still up?”
My head popped up from where I’d been looking down and scrolling social media on my phone.
“I wanted to spend some time with you.”
Shawn grinned as he shrugged out of his jacket and crossed the room to me. I still hadn’t bothered to get dressed. My comfort level in his home was alarming. I’d never felt so at home in a new space so quickly.
Once he sank into the couch at my side, I couldn’t take another moment of being away from him. It had been a long-ass day. I still wanted to touch and savor him. My knees straddled his hips as I settled over him. He grinned up at me.
“What’s up, babe?”
Little flutters settled in my stomach at the pet name. I’d never imagined being someone’s babe, but it worked for us. I liked it when he called me that. It made this all the more real. All the more special.
My lips settled over his as I kissed him tenderly. When his hands gripped my waist, I deepened it, swiping my tongue along the seam of his lips until he granted me access to that tempting mouth.
We sat like that, making out on the couch until we were both breathless. My forehead rested against his while I attempted to even out my breathing. It was a lost cause because he kept rocking his hips into me, allowing me to feel his growing erection.
“Shawn?”
“Yeah, babe?”
Babe. There it was again.
“You have to tell me if this is too much because it feels stupidly fast. A little over a week ago, I hated your guts...”
He laughed. “If this is about to be a confession of some kind—”
I slammed my mouth over his again, not letting him finish the statement. There wasn’t any room for rejection. I couldn’t handle it. Not after he’d been so kind to me.
“Let me say it. You don’t have to say it back.” The words were panted as we separated once more. “Shawn, I don’t know when it happened, but this isn’t just I like you. This is so much fucking deeper and I sort of hate you for crawling in the way you did. I was supposed to be getting my act together.”
His soft and tender lips pressed to mine again as his hands slid along my exposed back. His words came punctured between pecks and nibbles and kisses. It was all feverish and laced with desire. “Daniel, I don’t know when you missed it, but I’ve been all in with you since the beginning. I fell hard, and I fell fast. Shit,babe. I fell in love with you the second you walked into the bar and asked for a job.”
We broke apart and then fell back laughing. We were such a ridiculous pair.
“This is stupid. Are we about to argue over who fell first?” I laughed, leaning against Shawn’s chest.
His hands continued to trail up and down my spine as he placed kisses on the side of my head. “We could argue, but I think I’d win in the end.”
I pulled back to look at him, squinting to give him my best incredulous look. “I don’t know about that. You were kind of a jerk.”
“I’ll show you a jerk.”
The next thing I knew, I was on my back, pressed into the fluffy cushions of the couch as Shawn shoved my boxer briefs down my legs. It was an effective distraction. If he wanted to win the argument with sex, then I might be inclined to let him persuade me.
My legs were shoved up and the feeling of being exposed didn’t bother me as much as it had the first few times. He sank between my thighs and nuzzled the skin where my groin met my balls. The warmth of his breath against my sensitized skin had me shivering. I wanted him to do so much more than breathe me in. The good news was I didn’t need to wait for long.
Shawn’s tongue prodded at the crease of my balls before dragging back along my taint. This wasn’t a blowjob like I’d been expecting and when he shoved my ass higher into the air, I let out a squeak of surprise. He’d been so adamant about being super clean the last time, but maybe things were different when you were committed to someone.
The first swipe of his tongue against my hole had me tossing my head back and letting out a loud moan. This hadn’t been something I’d ever thought I’d enjoy, but fuck, Shawn knew whathe was doing. He stabbed and prodded at my entrance with the slick muscle of his tongue. He knew just how to reduce me to a writhing pile of mess. My entire body was on fire as he kept licking and sucking at me, loosening me up. I wanted more than just that tempting heat of his mouth.
