Page 28 of Exhale
Jesus…their kisses were fucking scorchers. Yesterday had been beyond his dreams. They had spent the day in bed and ordering room service. One of the best things about it was that they had talked. Like really talked about important shit.
Owen told him about his rushed marriage to Ginny. She had gotten pregnant, and Owen was old-fashioned enough to put a ring on her finger. He loved that about Owen.
Ginny had lost the baby before the two-month mark, but Owen had tried to stick it out and make it work.
“She was all over the place,” Owen said, shaking his head, and Jordan toyed with the man’s fingers while they lay in bed.
Leaning with his back against Owen’s chest, he listened to the deep rumble of words.
“That’s gotta be hard on you both losing a baby, devastating,” he murmured.
“It was.”
“So why did you call it quits?”
“One day she told me she stopped loving me.”
“What the hell?” Flabbergasted, he sat up and twisted around to face Owen, dragging the sheet with him.
He frowned into the man’s eyes.
Owen’s lips twitched. “I know, right? Hard to imagine.”
Jordan snorted and then laughed, shaking his head. “Conceited much?”
Owen’s chuckle was deep and rich, but then he sobered when Jordan asked his next question.
“What about you?”
“I never loved her. I liked her a lot, we had fun together, and the sex was great, but in all honesty, I would have never married her if she hadn’t been pregnant. So, we parted amicably.”
“That’s probably why she left you as her emergency contact,” Jordan said.
“Probably.”
Jordan crawled up Owen’s body and straddled the man’s hips.
After that, there was no more talking until much later.
Noise in the hallway brought Jordan back to the present and the kisses Owen was showering on his face, and he smiled.
He could stay there all day, but that wasn’t going to happen because it was now a day later, and he still hadn’t come clean about his suspicions.
Drawing back from Owen’s kisses, Jordan’s chest felt tight, his breath nonexistent, and he wanted nothing more than to go back at it, but with the morning brought reality.
A flash of light streaked through the window, followed by a sudden crackling boom.
Jordan lifted his head to glance toward the window.
“Was rain expected?” He frowned.
“Yeah, the weather said a rare summer storm was coming through,” Owen said.
“Looks like the storm broke.” Jordan sat up before he stood and walked over to the window.
Jerking the curtains open, Jordan gazed outside.
Gray threatening clouds covered the sky and the city below was damp. Heavy rain smacked against the patio door.
