Page 85 of On Thin Ice

To hear Ramsey talk, hedidhave a dad who might behave just like Morgan Reynolds did, but Finn knew not only did henothave a dad like Morgan, Ramsey didn’t have any dad at all.

But Ramsey was always casual and easy about it, like it was no big deal.

More than once, Finn had wondered what wasreallygoing on in Ramsey’s head, behind all those walls and all the interference he was constantly running.

“You do pretty okay on your own, without a Burberry suit,” Finn reminded him.

“True.” Ramsey grinned. “So it worked.”

“It worked. But it wasn’tjustthe suit.”

“Of course not,” Ramsey said, but it was clear he didn’t believe that for a second.

Finn was going to have to tell him all of it.

“So youwereright about the coming out thing. It’s not just for the foundation he’s starting, but also because he just wants to, and because he wants to not worry about being public with his relationships. With . . .anyrelationship.”

“He was coming out so he could get a boyfriend. Good for him.” Ramsey paused. “Wait.Wait. He wanted—wants—you didn’t tell him you’ddatehim, did you? Because your dad is going to lose his fucking mind.”

“Probably,” Finn said, which sounded more optimistic than he felt.

There was noprobablyabout it. Morgan would absolutely, no questions asked, lose his shit when Finn—and Jacob, because there was no way he’d let Finn do it alone—told him the truth.

“You didn’t tell him you’d be with him just to get him into bed, did you?” Ramsey actually looked concerned now.

“No.No.” Finn squirmed in his seat, suddenly uncomfortable. Before Jacob, he and Ramsey had shared details and notes about their hookups fairly frequently. Well, he’d shared and Ramsey hadovershared,but the point remained. And no, he’d never really been particularly interested in more, before, but that wasbefore.

With Jacob, everything was different.

“So you what . . .youlikehim?” Ramsey looked shocked for the first time, like this was the one development he hadn’t been able to guess or predict.

“I do. I do like him. A lot, actually,” Finn admitted, and the moment it was out of his mouth, that part of him currently panicking settled.

Hedidlike Jacob. So much. Was the sex fantastic? It definitely was. But it was about more than that, for Jacob, and for Finn, too.

“Huh.”

“Don’t look so confused, you know what that is.”

“Not what it feels like, though,” Ramsey admitted.

“You will, someday,” Finn promised.

Ramsey shrugged. “Maybe. Maybe not. So you’re like . . .that into him, then?”

“Yeah.”

“And it’s mutual?”

“Seems to be. That was what was holding him back, actually. Because he’s had hookups while he was in the closet, playing hockey, and he was done with that. And I wonder if . . .” Finn hesitated. “I wonder if it was more than that.”

Ramsey shared a conspiratorial smile. “I bet it was. God, you wore yourBurberryfor him. The moment you told me that, I should’ve known it was serious.”

“I thought it looked serious this morning, when we were kissing goodbye.”

“Well, there’s that too. Then there was the way he watched you walk away.”

“What are you talking about? What way did he look at me?” Finn was suddenly painfully, horribly curious.

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