Total pages in book: 145
Estimated words: 135792 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 679(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 453(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 135792 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 679(@200wpm)___ 543(@250wpm)___ 453(@300wpm)
Liv grinned, speeding up in hope they’d soon reach someplace dry. “That’s why I never baked another pie. But you did eat a whole slice. That was impressive, even though you puked right after.”
Knox shook his head with a smile despite the chill in the air and the rain falling on their heads. “What can I say? I can’t resist a good dare. And you got a slice of her cherry anyway, so it all ended well.”
Liv grinned. “Yeah, I did. In a way.”
Knox raised his eyebrows before jumping over a fallen tree. “No! She wasn’t a virgin? I remember her making a big deal out of claiming she was. Her parents were Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Liv sniggered and took a few steps ahead, walking backwards so he could see Knox’s face. “I suppose you’ll never see her again, so I can tell you. She was horny but obsessed with being ‘untouched’ until her wedding, so we did anal instead.”
Knox whistled. “I never—I’m gonna tell you, but don’t make me feel weird about it like the last time I told you shit! I never did anal, ‘cause I’m freaked out I’d hurt the girl.”
Aww.
Liv grinned, but when Knox’s shoulders rose, and his lips thinned, it was time to stop him from getting all worked up. “Not everyone likes the same thing. Lots of ways to have sex. However, if you ever wanted to try, you know who to call—” He stalled because Knox seemed even angrier now. “Wrong way to put it. What I mean is that I know my way. Around ass. One of my exes recommended me to a couple of friends who were nervous about trying with no strings, that’s how good I am at it.”
He loved the way Knox’s lips parted. “She did not! What?”
Liv tried to bow, but his heel hit something, and he would have fallen over if Knox hadn’t dashed forward to grab his hand. “Thanks. Er… yeah, I’m not lying. I’m good at making them relax. That’s the key to all good sex.”
Knox frowned, as if he were thinking that over. “You’re always so chill. But for me it can be… I don’t know, stressful. A bit. Like, it’s hot and everything, but there’s all those expectations of what I should do, and how to act, and how much she’s liking it, and if she came yet. I’m probably overthinking it.”
Liv hummed, tempted to pinch Knox’s scruffy cheek. Was that why he was avoiding sex? “You have to talk to them and look for cues. It’s not rocket science once you get on with the program.”
Knox nodded, a bit absentmindedly, but then grabbed Liv’s shoulder. Only then Liv understood he almost walked into a fence. It was just dark wire stretched between posts, but its height dwarfed them both. With the sun almost completely down, Liv’s eyes were straining to see anything, but he was still surprised that he’d missed something so big and wide.
“Fuck. It couldn’t be that easy, could it? I’ll get the flashlight. Let’s see if it’s even worth trying to get in.”
Liv licked rainwater off his lip and stood with his back to the fence post, using it for leverage while he offered him a lift of entwined hands. “Go on.”
“Yeah? You don’t even wanna check?”
Liv clucked. “Chicken?”
Knox rolled his eyes, already climbing on the cradle of Liv's fingers. “I ate your burnt zucchini pie on a dare. Climbing over this fence is nothing.”
“See if it’s safe, but this place is our best bet,” Liv yelled over the intensifying rain. He so fucking needed a roof over his head. A bit of warmth. A chance to lie down and doze off for a bit.
Knox climbed to the other side with his usual agility, and brought over several crates. From there, it took just a few moments for him to climb on top and help Liv join him. As they both turned their backs on the fence, the heaps of scrap mounting everywhere the eye could see told them what this place was.
“Let’s check if it’s safe, and then we can find some shed, an abandoned car, or even create some shelter if need be. We didn’t survive the last two days to die of hypothermia,” Knox said once they faced wet mountains of fridges and rusty cars.
How big was this place? Even with the rain and darkness hiding everything behind a dusky veil, the fence seemed to stretch endlessly in both directions, and the massive junkyard located in the woods of bumfuck nowhere had the energy of a post-nuclear wasteland. It might only appear abandoned, but as long as they could shelter here until tomorrow, Liv was sold.
At least until a beam of light flashed somewhere ahead, and they both ducked. This place wasn’t so forgotten after all.
Knox lowered their flashlight to the muddy ground and looked Liv’s way as he switched it off. “Let’s check it out, just in case. It’s probably just workers doing overtime, or something, and if we know where they are, we can make sure to stay away. This place looks vast enough to find a spot away from people.”