From Roommate

M/M Romance at it's finest.

“How did you, uh, know.” He clears his throat, and his eyes are tentative.

“Know?” I feel so swimmy and bright that it takes a moment to understand what he’s asking. “Oh, that I’m queer as fuck? I always knew. Sorry.” I can hear myself babbling. “But everybody’s different. I know some dudes who were thirty-five and married before they figured out how much they like cock.”

I wait for it and—there it is! The telltale blush on his cheekbones. It happens whenever I mention sex. If I ever get this man into bed, I’m going to make him blush everywhere.

“You should experiment,” the wine in my bloodstream says. “I’ll help you make a Grindr profile. Curious lumberjack with muscles seeks someone to sixty-nine. They’ll be like flies on honey.”

Kieran looks horrified. He sets down his glass with a thunk. “No fucking way. I can’t use an app. Shit. I can’t even make barista conversation with strangers. People chat on that app, right? And if I actually saw someone interesting on there, they’d want to talk.” He shudders.

I burst out laughing. “Oh the horrors! So you aren’t afraid to suck a dick, but the small talk might kill you?”

“Maybe,” he grumbles.

Giddy laughter bounces through my chest, and I feel drunk with unnamed possibilities.

Kieran braces a hand against the counter, studying his wine glass like the secret to the universe might be written there. The man is seriously hard to read.

“Hey.” A rush of affection makes me reach up to cup his face in my hand, so I can see his eyes. “If you ever decide to experiment with some lucky guy, just know that he’s going to feel like he’s winning at life.”

Kieran goes absolutely still under my hand. And for a moment I think my compliment didn’t land the right way. Maybe I’ve fucked everything up by touching him.

But then we lock eyes, and for the first time I realize that when Kieran gets quiet, it’s not because he wants to chuck me across the room. He gets quiet when he’s thinking. And right now he’s thinking that we are standing very close together.

He does not move away.

And neither do I. Never one to back down, I stroke my thumb against his handsome, stubbled face. I’m rewarded by a sound of pleasure so low that it’s almost inaudible.

His breath hitches as I move even closer. And then I bring us cheek to cheek, where I rub against him—stubble to stubble—like an affectionate cat. He smells like woodsmoke and outdoors.

Kieran makes a shocked little sound—half inhalation, half groan. But he doesn’t pull away.

I take that as a green light. I turn my head and kiss his neck very slowly right under the jaw. One kiss becomes two. Three. I’m dropping shameless, open-mouthed kisses everywhere I can reach. And that’s a lot of places, because Kieran lifts his chin to give me access.

Two hands sized for farm work close around my back with a clumsy slowness. His chest bumps mine as it rises with a gasping breath.

Standing on tiptoe so I can reach his ear, I whisper. “Kiss me. Do it .” Because I’ve taken enough liberties with this gentle creature.

He makes another desperate noise and then turns his head, finding my neck with his eager mouth. My body flashes with goosebumps as he mimics me, measuring my neck with his lips, tracing an erotic path up to my jaw. He rubs my back slowly, as if in wonder.

And I can’t wait any longer. I turn and catch his generous lips with mine. The first kiss tastes like red wine and the second one tastes like heat. He opens for me like he’s starving. I slip my tongue inside his mouth and sigh into the kiss. I’ve wanted him for so long. And the vise-like grip he has on my back suggests he’s been thinking about this, too.

I lose myself in his kisses. Each one is a little feistier than the next. Kieran is like a ball rolling downhill, picking up speed as we go. I push back on him until his ass hits the counter. And then I step between his legs and push my hips against his.

Yessss. My eager dick brushes his. Even through several layers of fabric I can feel him harden for me. My hand slips down, impulsively palming his ass through his jeans….