really wanted was for one particular
man—Trey—to find him irresistible in the present and the
future.
Tenino rubbed his palm over his nipple. His
dick jerked and his abdomen quivered. Oh yeah, this plan was going
to involve a whole lot of suffering.
He dropped onto the couch right on the edge
of violating Trey's personal space. "You play video games?"
Trey closed the book. It was absolutely
pointless to pretend he could read a single word, much less a
complete page with Tenino in the room, shirtless and sitting so
close.
"I play some," he admitted. He didn't prefer
video games over reading, but he enjoyed them and they gave him a
way to connect with his students, especially the boys. And time on
the Xbox during the school day was a powerful reward for helping
some of those boys achieve academic and behavioral goals.
"How about a game then?" Tenino asked. "We
can keep it tame, something like racing cars."
"Yeah, sounds good." Anything to keep him
busy and his thoughts and hands off Tenino would be good. He was
hyperaware of Tenino's smooth, bare chest and hardened nipples, of
the erection pressed against the sweats—Tenino's and his own
hard-on.
It was all he could do not to look toward
the bed, not that the wide, comfortable couch wouldn't serve, or
the thick rug in front of the fireplace. He shivered and it wasn't
from cold. His heart thumped loud and hard, tapping out the same
Morse-coded message it had when Tenino had stepped into the
sheriff's office. Touch me. Suck me. Fuck me .
Tenino pushed off the couch, heading for the
bookcase lined with games and holding the controllers. Trey took a
shaky breath. He felt exactly like what he was, a virgin on a first
date.
Just go with it. Just ease into it. Let
Tenino make the first move. Because there was no doubt in his
mind Tenino would make a move. He may have backed off, but it
wouldn't last.
And I don't want his restraint to last.
His stomach fluttered at the magnitude of
that admission. The entire time Tenino had been in the shower he'd
imagined going into the bathroom, stripping, stepping underneath
the hot spray of water and admitting he was gay, admitting to the
attraction as soapy hands explored and lips touched for the first
time.
Here was a chance to stop denying the truth
about his sexuality. He wasn't a kid anymore, didn't have to worry
about schoolyard bullies. He didn't have to be scared about what
acting on his fantasies would do to his career. His students, their
parents, and his school administrators were a long way away from
Hohoq.
The place probably wasn't even on the map.
And if it was … So what.
Tenino might be gay, but he had
law-and-order protector stamped as thoroughly on him as his Native
American heritage. He wasn't going to be posting pictures online or
bragging about conquests.
Tenino returned to the same place he'd
claimed previously, close enough for his body heat and the scent of
soap to become a sensual assault. He offered a game controller,
Trey took it, looked away quickly when Tenino stretched his legs
out and used the coffee table for a foot rest, the position making
his erection press boldly against the front of his sweatpants.
It was a subtle dare, a blatant
acknowledgement of attraction. I could end the suffering now by
just saying something.
He knew why he wouldn't. Understood why he
couldn't make himself lift the book off his lap and place it on the
table.
He set the game controller on the book.
Tenino laughed, let it go and the sexual
tension faded to manageable as they raced and the heat of
competition dominated.
Trey lost, more than once, but he made
Tenino sweat for his victories.
At a few minutes past midnight, Tenino
tossed his game controller onto the coffee table. "I've had enough
of that kind of entertainment."
Their eyes met and Trey's mouth went dry
while the rest of him went up in flames. He might as well have been
a rabbit in a snare. He couldn't have moved if he tried. Couldn't
have stopped Tenino