Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 65346 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 327(@200wpm)___ 261(@250wpm)___ 218(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65346 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 327(@200wpm)___ 261(@250wpm)___ 218(@300wpm)
“It’s crazy how good I feel just saying it.”
“It’s because now you have a plan of attack.”
“Yeah, and I’m sure the road ahead is still pretty long, but shit, I’m actually excited for once.”
“And you should be.” I pulled my feet from the water and turned so that I sat facing him, grabbing both his hands in mine. Benji shifted so he faced me, too. “You’ve got this, Benj.”
“I feel like I do, finally.” He offered me a shaky smile, the emotions of the moment beginning to catch up. “It’s been hard, Rex. I think I was so deep in the swamp of it that I started to feel like it was a part of me. Like the void had already swallowed me whole. I couldn’t see any way out, and I felt myself accepting it. I’d just wallow in the depression, so much that days turned into hazy blurs.”
“That’s what depression does—it make you think it’s got control of the wheel. But that is the furthest thing from the truth, and once you realize that, then you’ve got the chance to take back control.”
“And I will.”
“You definitely will.”
His dimples appeared, his eyes shining with hope and light. His hands felt good in mine—they felt right. Like we were somehow created to walk through this life hand in hand, never meant to separate. Not for six years or six minutes. Not for anything.
“I hate how I missed six years of your life,” I said, lifting our hands and splaying my fingers, playing with his. “But I’m so glad I’m here today, witnessing you reclaim the strong and hopeful and uplifting Benji I remember falling for all those years back.”
“Falling for, huh?”
“Falling hard for.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“Very much so.”
Benji leaned forward, his smile wide, the glow in his eyes sparking. Nearby, two sparrows dove and twirled, singing as they flew together to a tree on the other side of the river. The horses munched away on the grass underneath them, seeming as relaxed and happy as the two of us were.
“Six years,” Benji said, “that’s a lot of time we’ve got to make up for.”
“You’ve got any ideas on how?”
“Eh, just one or two.”
Benjamin Gold, the one who almost got away, crossed the distance between us and kissed me in a way that told me one thing and one thing only:
Benji wasn’t going anywhere this time around.
17
Benjamin Gold
I kissed him without any abandon. I let the dam break, allowing myself to get carried away in the rush of blissed-out emotions. This had been the best I’d felt in so fucking long, and I was more than ready to celebrate. My entire body buzzed with a sparking kind of heat, like Pop Rocks going off inside every part of me.
It wasn’t long before Rex was moving back, lying down on the ground, and I had kissed my way on top of him, our lips locked and tongues swirling. He licked my teeth, under my lips, sucking my bottom lip between his teeth and giving me a love bite.
I moaned, straddling him, the kiss quickly escalating into something more. Heat rolled off the both of us. My dick went rock hard, and I could feel him in the same state, our erections rubbing against each other through what felt like a thousand layers of clothing.
Control slipped from my grasp, lust driving my decisions. I wanted to tear off every piece of fabric on our bodies and take him right here, on a bed of rocks and grass and dirt. I wanted to rip his pants off, lift his legs up, and line myself up to feel his silky soft heat wrap around me.
“We need to get back to the guesthouse,” I said, breathless against his lips.
“How fast you think we can get there?”
“We’ve got horses. Five minutes?”
“Let’s make it three.”
Another kiss and another roll of our hips before we separated. We laughed, giddy as we got back on our horses. Rex was off first, riding Electra with an expert’s hand, leaving me behind in their dust as Canyon and I tried to catch up. The wind whistled in my ears as Canyon ran, hooves crunching over the leaves and twigs covering the ground.
Rex kept his lead the entire time, arriving at the stable and taking off the saddle by the time I arrived with Canyon. He helped me with the saddle, helping cut the time it took to get us over to the guesthouse. I couldn’t wait for us to get in, and the second the door was shut, we were on each other again, my cock rigid and straining against my jeans.
My heart felt like it would beat out of my chest.
Meanwhile, my cock felt like it would break out of my pants.
Rex kissed me with a burning passion that turned any kind of barrier between us into a pile of ash, and I kissed him back, determined to match him. Our tongues swirled and battled for dominance, trying to get the most of him, taste the most of him.