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When it was over and they were both spent, Jonah closed his eyes and slumped against Felix’s chest, overwhelmed.

“Fuck, Jo.” Felix kissed his face and smoothed his hands down Jonah’s back. “You feel so good.”

All Jonah could do was nod. He tucked his face into the crook of Felix’s neck and breathed him in.

He’d known sex with Felix would be intense. Known letting Felix be the one to fuck him would only heighten that.

But nothing had truly prepared him for this. Nothing could prepare him for how full his chest was with emotion or how thick his tongue felt with the words he wanted to say to Felix.

He loved Felix so much, felt consumed by it.

But if he whispered “I love you” now, Felix would probably only take it as an orgasm-addled confession or something Jonah had said to him a thousand times before.

This is the problem with being in love with your best friend, Jonah thought, pressing his palm to Felix’s racing heart.

Felix already knew Jonah loved him.

How could Jonah possibly explain how much more it had become?

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Miraculously, the Fisher Cats made it out of the first round of the playoffs. Although they lost game three against the Montreal Lynx, they won game four.

And game five.

Which meant they won the series.

The team was giddy as they flew home from Montreal that night, high on their victory.

Felix was bruised and battered from a particularly tough hit and there was a twinge in one of his ankles he didn’t love. Despite that, he was too amped up and horny to keep his hands to himself as they flew home on the team plane.

“Would you quit it?” Jonah hissed as Felix groped his thigh but Felix could hardly take Jonah seriously when he kept looking at Felix like that.

Jonah had been looking at Felix like he wanted to lick him up one side and down the other since the final moments of the second period when Felix’s assist had given the Fisher Cats a 5-2 lead.

The team had ultimately won the game 5-3 and were heading home to play Buffalo in the next round in a few days.

Felix and Jonah spent those precious few days resting and recuperating the best they could. They went to the rink for practice, slept, ate, and spent time with Grandma Ji-min.

“Would you want to get married here in the garden?” she asked one afternoon as they enjoyed the warmth of the early summer sunshine following lunch.

Felix glanced over at Jonah. “Well, we haven’t really talked about the details,” he admitted. “What do you think, Jo?”

“Uhh, I hadn’t thought about it but that might be nice,” Jonah said. “It certainly is a beautiful place.”

“Will there be room for everyone?” Felix wondered. “It’s a big space but …”

But it wasn’t like most typical suburban lawns. There were no big swaths of neatly mown grass. There were intricate walkways and the pond and the kitchen garden. Every inch of it was beautiful but it was all landscaped with rocks and plants and trees. There was no space to set up a tent like he’d seen at teammates’ weddings.

Although, it wasn’t like either he or Jonah would have much family attending. Hell, Felix wasn’t even sure if his parents would come if he invited them. Grandma Ji-min would be there for both of them. Felix would invite Ismael. Maybe Jonah would ask Henry to come. They’d invite the team and their families. But compared to some of the three-four-five-hundred person weddings he’d attended in Vancouver, theirs would be small.

He mentioned that to Jonah, who swallowed hard. “Maybe we should worry about all that this summer. I want to get through Grandma’s procedure and the playoffs before I think about all that.”

Grandma Ji-min had looked a little disappointed and Felix had felt disappointed too. He was curious to know what Jonah wanted in a future wedding. But Jonah was right that they had a lot on their plate and now wasn’t the time to worry about anything that wasn’t urgent.

At least they made time for sex whenever they were able.

Even if it was a little less energetic than Felix suspected either of them would like, it was still thoroughly satisfying. Felix was looking forward to the off-season when he could rail Jonah to his heart’s content and vice versa but for now, mutual handjobs and sloppy blow jobs were enough to make Felix happy.

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