“Okay advantageous. I’ve thought of attempting stuff. I simply by no means thought I’d do something about it. Particularly not with you.”

Damage flashed throughout his face earlier than he masked it, which solely made me really feel worse. Particularly when he adopted up with, “Yeah, I guessed that.” He pushed out of his chair, stalking in the direction of the door.

He was taking all of it incorrect, and I hated myself for making him really feel that manner. I launched to my ft, shifting to dam him earlier than he may storm out.

“Wait! That’s not what I meant. I simply meant… You’ve been my good friend for years, Ben. I believed crossing that line would break what we’ve received and I simply couldn’t danger it. You and Grayson are my household. I don’t wish to lose you.”

He hesitated, which was progress in my thoughts.

“And now?”

My abdomen dipped, and I ran my fingers by means of my hair uneasily. This was the half the place I didn’t have any solutions. I’d had relationships aplenty, from one-night stands to the occasional girlfriend. By no means with a man. I used to be in uncharted territory, and I had no concept what occurred subsequent. I had extra questions than solutions. And not one of the curiosity modified the truth that I nonetheless didn’t wish to lose my good friend. Even when I used to be a shit one the previous couple of weeks.

“I don’t… I don’t know.”

With my eyes on the bottom, I couldn’t see the look on his face. I nonetheless felt awkward. However when he sidled nearer, I didn’t transfer away. Grayson was proper. I used to be being a shitty good friend to a man who struggled to make connections like that for concern of dropping the folks he cared about.

“You began this. What do you wish to do about it?”

I made a face. “Hey, you kissed me first. Technically, you began it.”

“Luka…”

A flush labored its manner up my neck, and I grimaced once more. I didn’t wish to say the phrases out loud, however I felt like I owed him for being such an ass.

“I, uh… I’m…” I sighed closely. “I’m curious, alright? However I don’t need this to return between our friendship. Or what I’ve received with Julie. She’s the precedence and if it makes her uncomfortable then–”

“Then we cease.” He nodded in settlement earlier than frowning at me. “Are you certain you wish to discover this shit with me? What occurred doesn’t need to imply something. We have been each wound up.” He shrugged.

He was nonetheless seeing it like he was the issue and never me. I scowled. “Fairly certain I’ve by no means been combating with a good friend one minute, then dry humping him like a fucking teenager the subsequent. It meant one thing. A minimum of, it did to me. I’m not asking for shit if that’s not what you need. I simply need you to know I’m… into it. Or no matter. In case you are.”

This couldn’t get any extra awkward if I attempted. I used to be rambling like an fool, which I by no means do, and my face was burning hotter than a freaking volcano. I took a step again, hoping for an escape, however Bennett stopped me. Rattling, did he cease me.

He put a hand on my chest, pushing me till my again hit the wall by the door. Surprised, I regarded up simply in time to observe him dip his head and crush his lips to mine. The identical emotions from the primary time exploded by means of me. Confusion, curiosity, want. Fuck, I wanted this. I gripped his shirt, dragging him nearer, biting again a groan when his tongue tangled with mine. It was nothing like I used to be used to. I used to be the man in management, however not proper now. Bennett stored me pressed towards the wall together with his arms on my hips, utterly obliterating each argument I had the final two weeks. Why battle one thing that felt this good?

When he pulled again, I needed to chunk again the urge to comply with him. We have been at work for one factor, and for one more, whereas I used to be exploring regardless of the hell this new curiosity was, I didn’t want a rattling viewers. This place was a gossip haven. Individuals ate that shit up. The gossip about Julie’s break up was simply beginning to die down, and it’d been over a month for the reason that incident.

“Are you going to do this each time I panic?” I murmured.

He chuckled. “It really works, doesn’t it?”

“You’re an asshole,” I scowled.

He simply grinned, shutting me up with one other kiss that nearly knocked me on my ass. No surprise Julie regarded so rattling drugged each time he kissed her. Bennett knew what the hell he was doing.

When his hips brushed towards mine, I jerked, ripping my mouth away from his. “Fuck. Not right here, man.”

If he began the identical shit from earlier than, I’d make a large number and I didn’t have any spare outfits right here. It felt like torture to cease, although, particularly when he stopped however didn’t fairly draw back. I may nonetheless really feel the warmth of him, the bulge behind his fly pressed up towards mine. It took each ounce of self-control I had to not push up towards him.

“My place or yours?”

I choked on a whimper, shaking my head helplessly. “I can’t– I don’t–” I nonetheless couldn’t course of what occurred subsequent and any time he threw questions at me, my thoughts stalled out. To not point out the truth that all my blood was presently beneath my belt, throbbing insistently.

He leaned and brushed his lips towards my neck, the scrape of his stubble sending a shiver up my backbone. Why the hell did that really feel so good?

“Inform me what you want.”

My forehead furrowed. The urge to run was nonetheless there, the entire deviation from what I believed I knew throwing me for a loop, however I couldn’t do this to him. Not once more.

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