He doesn’t want me to get too much color, insisting that my pale complexion is sexy as all hell. And normally I agree with him. But I have to come back with at least a little bit of a tan. I mean… come on.
“Why don’t you rub some more sunscreen on me, then?” I roll onto my stomach, pushing my sunglasses down the bridge of my nose. “That’s always fun.”
He laughs. “Oh, yea. It was even more fun for the onlookers yesterday at the jet-ski place.”
I snicker at the memory.
St. Barth is an awesome place. Not only is the weather perfect, the food amazing, and the sights purely gorgeous, but it’s also openly accepting of all lifestyles. There are a bunch of gay couples staying in the villas near us, which certainly helped loosen us up when we first got here.
We’ve been able to just be us the entire time, without worry. It’s all I could as for.
Here we aren’t a father and his adoptive son. We’re just Jesse and James. New lovers vacationing, relaxing, and enjoying each other in ways that, let’s be real, we probably couldn’t do at home. Definitely not in the town where we both grew up.
I’m loving every minute of it, while simultaneously dreading going back. I hate that there’s a timer on this.
Pushing away the icky thoughts, I get James up and drag him into the water. We walk in, hands clasped, wading into the crystal clear blue until we’re up to our chests. And then his hands travel, and mine do too, feeling each other up like we still haven’t gotten our fill. I’m not sure we ever will.
James hoists me up in the water, molding me to his strong frame as I wrap my legs around his waist. I touch the tattoos on his shoulders and arms while he kisses my neck, giving me chills even beneath the heat of the sun.
“You’re perfect, sweet thing,” he croons in my ear, licking up the saltwater on my flesh. “Everything about you… You’re beautiful and sexy and perfect and mine.”
“I am so yours,” I tell him, combing my fingers through his dark wet hair. “Always.”
“No matter what?” He hums, palming my cock over the material of my fitted swim trunks.
“No matter what.”
His other hand grips my ass tighter. “I’m yours too, baby.”
“Always?” My heart thumps into his through our flushed chests.
“Always,” he kisses the word on my lips.
Our mouths come together for leisurely kisses, sucking and biting, tongues flicking, in our own little slice of heaven we’ve found.
“I never want to leave.” My confession breaks when we come up for air.
James draws a line up my throat with his index finger. “Maybe we don’t have to…” I can’t help the bemused fluttering of my eyelashes as I gape at him. He chuckles. “What if we could stay? Would you want to…?”
My heart is racing already at the idea. James had made a comment last night, while we were lying in bed after a particularly intense set of orgasms, about extending our trip. But I just thought he meant like, another week.
“Stay as in… stay longer?”
He shakes his head. “What if we moved here?”
Now I’m really cruising the confusion highway. “How is that even possible?”
He does a little shrug, like it’s the most casual conversation ever. “I’ve lived in Maine my whole life… I’m kind of over it. It’s fucking awesome here, don’t you think?”
“Well, yea,” I huff, shaking my head. “But what about your business… The house? Everything else?”
“What else?” He mumbles, dark gray irises conveying so much love and dedication, it physically takes my breath away. “You’re my everything, baby. That’s it. Just you. The house is just a house… I can sell it and buy something here. Or anywhere you want, for that matter. And my business… Well, some of the local grows have been trying to buy me out for years. I could sell and set up something here. Or again, anywhere you want.”
He pauses to let his words sink in, and suddenly I don’t think I’m floating in his arms in the water anymore. I’m floating away altogether, light as air, weightless with possibilities.
“None of this matters if you don’t want to,” he keeps talking, deep voice vibrating into me. “But if you do, we could easily pick up and move somewhere like here. Start a new life. Be happy. You make me so fucking happy, baby, and I just want to return the favor. I want to give you the life you deserve. Out in the open.”
Everything he’s saying rushes over me, like droplets of running water. We can’t be us out in the open back home. It’s just not possible, not without a witch-hunt of judging assholes who don’t understand our love.
But if we were to pack up and move here… Well, shit. That would be a fucking dream come true.
I can see myself living here. With him…
I could open a bakery or a shop, and he could still grow, depending on the laws around here. We could do anything… There’s so much of life for us to explore together. And I want that with James. With the man I’ve dreamt of having since I was a kid.
I finally have him. I’d be a moron to let that go.
So I nod, slowly, still buzzing on all these new ideas.
James’s smile goes broad and he beams at me, taking my face in his hands. “Yea? You want to?”
I nod some more. Because fuck yea. “Yes. Totally. Let’s run away together.”
He lets out a soft sigh and kisses me fast, swallowing my breaths and giving me his. Giving me his love, the love I’ve craved for years. It’s here in my arms now, a reality we’ll make together.
“You truly are the best gift I could never have expected,” he whispers with his hands sliding all over.
“You gonna unwrap me?” I smirk, and he growls.
My man, no matter what.
No matter how. No matter why.
He’s mine.
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The End
Flipping Hot Fiction by Nyla K
The Midnight City Series:
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Andrew & Tessa’s Trilogy
(Forbidden/Age Gap, celebrity romance, suspense. Read in order)
Midnight City (TMCS #1)
Never Let Me Go (TMCS #2)
Always Yours (TMCS #3)
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Alex & Noah
Seek Me (TMCS #4 – Standalone, Friends to lovers/Angst)
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Unexpected Forbidden Romance:
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PUSH (Standalone, Taboo/MMF)
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To Burn In Brutal Rapture (Standalone, Taboo/Age Gap)
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Alabaster Penitentiary:
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Distorted, Volume 1 (MM)
Joyless, Volume 2 (MMF)
Brainwashed, Volume 3 (MM) – Coming in 2022!
Fragments, Volume 4 (MM)
Ivory, Volume 5 (mystery, *wink wink*)
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Twisted Tales Collection:
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Serpent In White (A drug cult MMMF retelling of The White Snake) Coming November 19, 2021!