Page 75 of Heart Taker

Something about the serious tone in his voice had a shiver racing through my body. Ignoring my deeper emotions, I gavehim a sceptical look, and a hint of my usual glare. He kept grinning at me.

“Don’t give me that Banning glare around the guys, Damien. It gets my dick hard.”

“Fuck.”

“Yes, back to sex, I prefer to top, but I’m vers,” Silas admitted. “I’ve only bottomed a few times. It takes trust. But I’d like to explore that with you. If that’s something you want.”

“I’ve never bottomed. I’ve had anal but—” I paused.

“But you topped? With that guy, in that threesome?” he bit out, his eyes intense.

His jealousy, because that’s exactly the reaction Silas was giving off, was hot as hell.

“I did.”

Looking back, that night was exciting and wild, and yet the memory of it now didn’t stir anything inside me.

Silas inhaled sharply. “All joking aside, I don’t need anal to be satisfied. A lot of times I’m happy with handjobs or blowjobs or frotting. It’s all good.”

I nodded, relieved.

“Then we’ll see what happens. I’d like to… try.” I licked my lips. “But I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep. Or disappoint you.”

Silas claimed my lips and silenced any further comment.

“You could never do that,” he whispered.

“We’ve only known each other as coach vs player, not lovers. How do you know?”

“I just do,” he insisted and punctuated the remark with another heated kiss. “I know the man that you are, Damien. Once you’re committed to something, like the team, you’re all in. I hear it in your voice, I witness it in your actions, and I see it in your eyes. I’m the same.”

It was scary how well he knew me already. And that we were alike in so many ways. Suddenly, I was vulnerable like I hadn’t been in years. That knowledge should’ve sent me running, fast and far. Instead, I wanted to slide onto his lap and kiss him breathless, right here under the stars.

“Do that,” he demanded.

“What?”

He tugged my hand. “Get on my lap and kiss me.”

Holy shit, I’d said that out loud?

Without pause, I got up and straddled his waist, and Silas, in turn, gripped my ass in his hands and pulled me in as close as we could get. I wrapped my arms around his neck and leaned in to take possession of his mouth. One steamy kiss led to another, and another, until our moans filled the quiet night air.

Staring down into his eyes, the puzzle that was my personal life, the one I’d been trying to figure out for years, finally clicked into place.

“So, it turns out I’m bisexual,” I whispered. “Wow, I think that’s the first time I’ve ever claimed that out loud.”

He smiled and clutched me tighter.

“Welcome to the Sutton U Queer Club, baby.”

CHAPTER 23

SILAS

Iwanted to stay with Damien, but it was past eleven, and I had to get home.

I texted Jo to let him know I was on my way back, then used the bathroom and got dressed, and Damien met me in his foyer.

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