Page 106 of On Thin Ice

“Don’t tease me with a good time,” Jacob said wryly, and then his mouth was on him, hot and wet and perfect.

Finn groaned and tried to stave off his inevitable orgasm, but Jacob was pushing him, coaxing him almost, giving him more pleasure than he knew what to do with. Matching the emotions he’d never experienced before.

Arousal and affection mixed inside him an intoxicating swirl, and he barely had any time to warn Jacob before he was coming in his mouth.

Jacob swallowed around him, dragging his orgasm out as long as he could, until Finn was panting and nearly crying with it.

“So fucking good,” Finn muttered as Jacob unfolded himself and leaned hard against Finn’s relaxed body. Jacob’s mouth found his and Finn’s trembling fingers undid the button and zipper of his jeans, finding his cock.

He got barely half a dozen strokes in before Jacob was shuddering, too.

“Yeah,yeah,” Jacob agreed after he’d lifted his mouth.

His smile as he gazed down at Finn was happier andlighterthan he’d ever seen before.You did that.

He was pretty sure he had and pretty sure he wanted to keep doing it, forever.

That should scare you. That should terrify the fuck out of you.

But it didn’t.

It only made Finn feel strong and confident. Invincible, in fact.

Jacob found some fast-food napkins and helped Finn clean up before shooting another lopsided grin. “Well, I think we made it with a few minutes to spare.”

“I might actually be on time,” Finn said.

“If I let you go early,” Jacob pointed out, settling down next to him. He reached for Finn’s now-clean hand and tangled their fingers together, squeezing them. “I know we didn’t talk about telling people, at least specifically . . .”

“Elliott and Mal aren’t really people. They’re teammates. Friends. And Elliott will keep his trap shut, so you don’t have to worry about that.”

“I wasn’t worried about it, though if your dad finds out from anybody but you, I can’t imagine it’ll help,” Jacob said dryly.

“No,” Finn agreed. Even though Morgan had taken the news of Jacob’s coaching decently enough, he couldn’t imagine the same result when Finn confessed this particular nugget of truth.

Jacob sighed. “I keep thinking we must be stupid, but then I see you, then you smile at me, then wetoucheach other, and I realize I’d do a whole lot worse to keep doing it.” His voice went quiet and hushed. “I’d do a lot more to keepyou, Finn.”

Finn understood. “It would’ve been easier if it had been just sex.”

“I really . . .really care about you,” Jacob said. And he sounded so careful, but so hesitant, Finn thought he understood what he wasn’t saying. Not yet, anyway.

What he felt too, lodged hard and tight and inescapable, behind his breastbone. The thing he wouldn’t want to get rid of, even if he could.

“Now you’re never going to get that easy boyfriend,” Finn said.

“No,” Jacob agreed and Finn’s heart clenched, again.

Chapter 15

Jacobshouldn’thavebeensurprised to see Morgan in the hallway outside the locker room before the Evergreens’ last game pre-holiday break.

But before he could ask why he was here—before he could demand that Morgannotgo into the locker room and derail Finn’s last-minute mental preparations—Morgan turned to him and said, “I see you’re officially on the team, now.”

Jacob was surprised for a second and then remembered the dark green jacket Finn had given him that he’d swapped for his own black puffer without a second thought. If Finn wanted his logo plastered all over him,owninghim, then Jacob wasn’t going to argue about it.

“Yeah,” Jacob said. “It’s . . .uh . . .easier.”

Nothing was actually all that easy about this, though the easiest part seemed to be the one part they hadn’t confessed to Morgan yet.

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