Page 18 of Boys of Fall

“You know the part of your yard that’s a hill?”

She nodded and squinted at me. “In the back?”

“Yeah,” I answered. “Well, it’s high enough that today I could see you in the mirror.”

Her eyes widened. “See me what?”

My courage faltered as her mouth popped open. “Oh no,” she whispered. “This afternoon, while you were cutting grass, you-you saw that!” She groaned, pressing the heel of her hand to her forehead, she sat up in a rush. “Surely there’s a hole out here I can go throw myself in?”

“Autumn, no,” I sat up beside her and looped my arm around her waist to keep her next to me.

“I’m going to spontaneously combust from embarrassment,” she muttered and wiggled in my grip but not with any real effort to escape.

“Look at me,” I pleaded. “I want you to see how serious I am when I say this.”

She turned her head only enough to peek at me under her wrist.

I brought her hands to my mouth and kissed each finger. She seemed to slowly relax. “I’m very serious,” I whispered.

She inhaled and nodded.

“I’ve never, ever, seen anything like you,” I said.

She started to look away.

“What you did, the way you were, Autumn.” With one finger I touched her chin, urging her to look at me. “Holy hell, I thought I might have a heart attack from the pressure inside me.”

She snorted and grinned. “Now you’re just trying to be nice.”

“No way.” I pulled her closer and back down on the blankets. Nose to nose on the pillow there was no way for her to miss my every expression, and that’s exactly what I wanted. “I’ve never seen anyone that, free. Or happy. Or turned on in a room right by themselves.”

She frowned. But as she lay quiet, I could almost see the thoughts linking themselves together behind her eyes. “So you liked watching?”

“Liked is too tame a word,” I answered. “There’s a good chance my balls may carry a slight blue tattoo for the rest of my life because of you and your little pink dildo.”

Autumn barked out a laugh behind her hands, and I joined her.

She stroked my face with her fingertips once our laughter had slowed to little hics and sighs.

“That’s the reason Corey and I split, you know,” she said softly. “He freaked out when I asked him to watch me.”

I shook my head as my heart simultaneously broke for her, and I wanted to plot that asshole’s death. “What an idiot.”

She smiled and cupped my cheek before pressing a kiss to the tip of my nose. “It was a hard lesson, but I knew I couldn’t spend another day with someone that scared of watching another person pleasure their body.”

Propping myself onto one elbow, I hovered over her. “Autumn,” I said then swallowed the rush of nervousness trying to squeeze my throat closed. “Will you show me?”

Her eyes widened. “Like in my room?”

I nodded and let my fingers drift up and down her arm. “I want to watch you again.”

Her breath came out in a shudder then she seemed to relax even more. “What do you want to see first?”

“You naked,” I whispered moving in to kiss her lips and rolling her by the hip to get my hand on her gorgeous ass. “Especially this,” I said as I palmed it and flexed my fingers in a lingering squeeze.

“My big butt?” She giggled. “Good grief.”

I shook my head. “It’s perfection.”

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