Page 46 of Country Road Romance

“You would never guess that it was my dad who would be the one to talk to you about gay sex, would you?”

“I have to admit that that wasn’t exactly what I’d been expecting,” Charlie said. “It’s not every day that the father of the guy you’re interested in starts telling you that he thinks you should make sure to be practicing safer sex. Particularly not when you’re in your thirties. I almost felt like a teenager talking to his boyfriend’s dad.”

Once again, Charlie’s mouth got too far ahead of his brain. He half expected Jared to go bolting from the room the minute that he said he was interested in him but, to his surprise, he reached out and rested his hand on Charlie’s leg. A bolt of electric desire jolted through him at just that slight touch.

“So you’re interested in me?” Jared said. The uncertainty and longing in his voice was enough to break Charlie’s heart.

He fought down the temptation to laugh–he knew that that would be the worst thing he could do–and instead reached out a hand and placed it over Jared’s. “I’mveryinterested in you,” he said.

Even though it was dark somehow they found their way toward one another, and once again their lips touched. Just like when they were up on the hill, Charlie lost himself in everything about Jared, his senses overwhelmed with his simple proximity.

Neither of them had to say anything else. Instead, they let their bodies do their talking for them. Their clothes were soon on an untidy pile on the floor, and their lips were back together, their hands roaming freely over one another’s bodies.

Even though they both knew they had to be quiet, every so often one of them would utter a moan, and then the other would shush them.

Finally, though, Charlie had Jared right where he wanted him, sprawled out on the bed below him.

Charlie was simply in awe of Jared’s body, of the way that he seemed to open up like a flower as he ran his fingers down his chest and swirled his fingers around his nipples. Jared wasn’t ripped like so many of the LA guys that Charlie had been with, but he had a lean build that made him feel even more protective of him.

It was when Jared looked up at him, though, that he thought his heart might burst.

“You’re so beautiful,” he whispered. He knew the words were inadequate, that they didn’t even come close to describing what he felt for the man below him, the way that he’d felt from the moment they met, actually. But how did you say something like that to someone? How did you really get them to understand how much they meant to you?

Pushing those thoughts aside he leaned down and pressed his lips to Jared’s, once again relishing the taste of him, the sweetness of his breath. He reached up and ran his hands through Jared’s thick hair, then let his hand cup his cheek as the two of them continued to kiss, their passion becoming more intense and all-consuming with every moment. There was nothing else in the world right now–there was no film festival, no family worries, no anxieties of any kind. There were just the two of them.

It was Jared who drew back for a moment, his breath coming in short gasps.

“Um…,” he said rather nervously, “do you…do you want to take this further?”

God yes.

Aloud he said, “I mean, I do, but only if you do. I don’t want you to do anything that you’re not comfortable with.”

There was no mistaking Jared’s chuckle, somehow both affectionate and exasperated.

“I don’t think you need to worry about me wanting to take things further.” He thrust his hips up ever so slightly. Charlie swallowed, his own hardness becoming so intense he thought he might go crazy with it. He had to resist the urge to just have his way with him right there.

Jared reached up and cupped his face. “Areyouokay? If you don’t want to go any further,. I’m happy just being with you.”

Charlie was somewhat surprised to find out that he believed him.

“I really do,” he said, finally finding his voice. “Want to take things to the next level, that is.”

Once again that laugh. “There’s condoms and lube in the nightstand right there.”

“Do you have sex in your old bedroom a lot?” he asked.

There was a moment of quiet. “Well, my exes and I certainly weren’t celibate when we were visiting my folks.”

There was one more nagging question, but Jared answered it before he could ask it.

“I’m a bottom, in case you didn’t know that already.”

Charlie had had a feeling, but he didn’t want to say that aloud.

“I know you were probably thinking that already, but I just thought I’d make it easy for you. Now, are you going to get the condom and the lube, or do I have to do it for you?”

That settled it. Charlie reached over and got them out of the night stand, and even though this was very much what he wanted, he could still feel his hands shaking.

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