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“If he wakes up, tell him I’m sorry for everything. I thought he would snap out of it someday…I always hoped he would.”
Nathaniel lets out a slow, trembling sigh, his stomach clenching tight. And when he looks out of OMR’s bedroom window, he has a direct line of sight to the stone figure on the hill.
Chapter 6: Tears
Work that night is a slog. Even though his shift ends early at midnight, Nathaniel can’t bring himself to venture back through the graveyard.
It’s not that he’s too scared or too weirded out by the vibrating cage. It’s more that he can’t bring himself to face the statue’s disappointed gaze.
As soon as he walks into his house, exhausted, he throws his stuff onto his kitchen table and collapses into bed. Sadness and frustration settle deep in his stomach.
This curse is a tricky, slippery thing. At first, he thought the hardest part of undoing it would be the physical challenge, but now he’s not so sure.
The statue has been hardened by betrayal. It’s made him stubborn enough to refuse help from a boy who may turn around and scorn him for loving other men. If Nathaniel wants to gain the statue’s trust, he’ll have to prove to him that he has good intentions—that he’s not helping him out of pity or for cheap thrills. That he actually wants what the statue can give him.
He needs to remember that there is a real, living man inside the stone. A man who can feel his touch, and when Nathaniel had stammered out that he was straight…
Well, obviously, that had been a shitty thing to say to the man he swore to help. (Especially when they both know he’d tried to fuck himself on his big stone cock.)
The statue didn’t ask to be paralyzed in stone. And just because OMR feels guilty about it now doesn’t change the fact that he’d betrayed him all those years ago.
Stupid fucking OMR. He had a perfectly amazing Dom boyfriend, and he threw it away for what? Because he was afraid the town would think less of him if he came out as gay?
Nathaniel’s face twists.
He needs to figure himself out, and he needs to do it now. If he doesn’t, the statue might assume he’s a big homophobic loser, and Nathaniel will never find love and he’ll end up a withered, creepy old man just like OMR.
But it’s not easy for Nathaniel to understandwhyhe wants the things he does. He’s trapped in this confusing, jumpy body. He’s too tall and too nervous to make sense to anyone. For some inexplicable reason, his cock only feels safe when it’s caged in metal and locked beyond his own control.
There’s a simple explanation for all his confusion, though. When he lets himself breathe through his fear, it settles into him with a forceful clarity.
He’s gay. He’s a kinky gay guy.
Nathaniel lets out a shuddering breath, glowing with heat from head to toe. It feels so completely true that he can’t even come up with a way to deflect it.
Even though it’s scary, he’s ready to change the way he sees himself. He wants more than anything to prove to the man that he can be a good boy.Hisgood boy. And if the whole town finds out? Well, he’s fine with that, too. He wants to be a betterbelovedthan the one the statue had before. The idea of surrendering himself to him makes the world more colorful.
But physically, his body won’t yield. And unless he can get this gigantic shaft to fit up inside of him, he’ll never break the curse.
He rolls over onto his side and stares at the big stone dick. It towers over him, no smaller tonight than it was the night before.
Well, he can keep feeling sorry for himself, or he can get to work.
Taking hold of it, he spreads his thighs, hitches his hips up, and gives it a shove.
Nope. No.
Maybe with the lube?
Ow. No, not even with a ton of lube.
Then how?!?
With increasing desperation, Nathaniel tries and fails to shove the stone cock inside. And the more he fails, the lower his stomach sinks. He can’t help but grimace as his memory churns up all his most awkward interactions with the statue.
He knows exactly how the statue sees him now: just one more idiot boy who’s prepared to make all kinds of excuses rather than acknowledge his attraction to him.
And based on his actions thus far, he’d be right.
