Previously…
CHAPTER 3: DON’T THINK TOO HARD ABOUT IT
TWO DAYS AFTER the shower, nothing had gone back to normal.
Which meant everything had.
We fell into a rhythm that looked ordinary from the outside. Wake up early. Coffee too strong. The drive to the shop with the windows cracked and classic rock bleeding through the speakers. Work until our hands ached and our shirts stuck to us. Eat whatever was fastest. Go home.
But under it all, something still itched at the edges of my thoughts.
We’d crossed a line, but it wasn’t the one people meant when they whispered or warned. We still hadn’t kissed. We still hadn’t had sex. And somehow, those things—those particular things—felt heavier. Not just physical, but permanent in a way I didn’t know how to explain. Like once we touched them, we couldn’t go back. And there I was again, looping on the idea of no return—like admitting it out loud would split it wide open, I’d crack it open and ruin it. My thoughts spun like glass plates on the edge of a table, delicate and barely balanced, and none of it made sense.
At the shop, it made things sharper.
Jeff kept things professional in the way only someone who knew exactly how unprofessional it could get would. Instructions were clipped. Corrections precise. No unnecessary touches. No jokes that lingered too long. But his eyes—his eyes betrayed him. They tracked me when I bent over an engine. When I wiped sweat from my neck. When I laughed at something a customer said.
I felt it every time.
“You’re thinking too much,” he said at one point, not looking up from the carburetor he was rebuilding.
I froze. “About what?”
“Everything.”
I went back to tightening bolts, jaw set. He wasn’t wrong.
That night, we ate dinner at the table instead of the couch. No TV. Just the hum of the fridge and the scrape of forks against plates. He asked about work. I asked about a truck he used to have when I was younger. We stayed safely in the past.
Still, when he stood to rinse his plate, his hand brushed the back of my chair.
I felt it for an hour after.
Later, lying in bed, I stared at the ceiling while the fan clicked overhead, every rotation ticking off a question I couldn’t answer. The shop. Dinner. That breath between words. The space we kept leaving—purposefully—untouched.
I turned over, once. Twice. A dozen times. Couldn’t get comfortable. Couldn’t shut it off. The sheets twisted around my legs like they were trying to hold me still, but my thoughts wouldn’t stop moving.
Was Jeff thinking about it too? About me? About that moment in the bathroom, and everything it cracked open? Or had he already packed it away, neat and buried beneath a hundred ordinary things—oil changes, grocery lists, whatever game was on tomorrow night?
I hated how much I wanted to know.
Worse, I hated how much of it came back to the kiss we hadn’t had. Not because I was obsessed with kissing him—though maybe I was—but because it felt like the line we hadn’t crossed yet, the one that would make everything feel real in a way that couldn’t be brushed off. Sex was one thing. That kiss, though? That meant something. And I didn’t know if I wanted it or feared it more.
I rolled onto my stomach and pressed my face into the pillow, trying to smother the thoughts before they spiraled again. They didn’t. Instead, they fanned out, one bleeding into the next: the way he looked when he focused, the low scrape of his laugh, the casual warmth of his hand on the back of my chair like it belonged there.
It wasn’t just the memory of what we’d done. It was everything wrapped around it. The quiet moments. The ones that didn’t need to be sexy to make me ache.
And I didn’t know what that meant.
I rolled onto my side again, kicked the covers off, then pulled them back up. My skin felt hot and cold at once, like my body couldn’t pick a temperature. I glanced at the clock on my nightstand.
1:47 a.m.
“Fuck it,” I muttered under my breath, sitting up.
The floor was cool under my feet as I stood. Every step down the hall felt heavier than it should’ve, like the air had thickened just to make me question this more. But I didn’t stop.
I paused at Jeff’s door, barely open. Light from the streetlamp outside cast a dull amber strip across the carpet. I nudged it gently.
The hinge creaked.
Jeff stirred in bed. His voice came low, rough with sleep. “Harrison?”
I didn’t answer. I stepped inside, crossed the room, and lifted the edge of the blanket. Jeff pushed himself up slightly, blinking in the dark.
“What are you doing?”
Still nothing.
I slid into the bed beside him, careful but sure. Pressed up close, my chest to his back, one arm wrapping around his waist in a slow, uncertain motion.
Jeff went still for a second, surprised—but then he let out a long, quiet breath and relaxed back into me.
Neither of us said a word.
The silence between us wasn’t cold or stiff—it was weighted. Full. A kind of agreement you didn’t have to say out loud. I closed my eyes, breathing in the familiar scent of him—soap, laundry, and that undefinable Jeff-ness that clung to his skin like heat.
Jeff’s hand slid over the arm I had wrapped around him. Not pulling it away—just grounding it. Holding it there.
And just like that, my heart stopped racing. The thoughts didn’t stop, but they got quieter. The rest could wait.
Jeff shifted slightly, and I felt it—slow and unmistakable—he was getting hard. My pulse jumped. It didn’t feel like a mistake. I shifted just enough—barely a breath’s worth of movement—to see if he’d notice, if he’d want it too. His answer came in the way his hips pressed back, slow and sure, like he’d been waiting for permission.
I turned toward him, resting my head lightly on his chest as he shifted onto his back. I slid my leg over his, slow and easy, until my knee pressed up against the unmistakable weight of his cock, thick and hard beneath the thin fabric. My breath caught. His didn’t.
A low, guttural groan rumbled from his throat—deep enough that I felt it in his chest before I heard it. I pressed my knee in again, intentional this time, testing just how far we were about to let this go.
He reached around and grabbed a firm handful of my ass, fingers digging in like he meant to keep me there. The sound that left me wasn’t subtle—a raw, broken moan I didn’t bother trying to swallow.
I wanted to look up at him, but part of me was afraid he’d be looking back—catching every flicker of want on my face. The other part of me was holding its breath, hoping he was.
I reached down and slid my underwear off, slow enough to feel the drag of cotton against my skin. My cock sprang free—aching, flushed, and desperate for friction beneath the weight of the sheets.
“So is that what this is?” he asked, voice low and rough.
I shrugged, mouth twitching. “Just getting comfortable.”
“Should I be doing the same?”
Instead of answering, I reached down and gave his briefs a tug. He lifted his hips without hesitation, and I pulled them down together, slow and unspoken.
“You comfortable now?” I asked, voice quiet but close.
“Getting there,” he murmured.
He turned, sliding one leg between mine until our cocks brushed—bare skin on bare skin, hot and unforgiving. The contact was electric, a pulse that jumped straight to my throat and left me aching for more.
“Fuck,” I gasped, the word torn from me as instinct took over.
Our hips began to move in sync, slow at first, measured—cocks grinding together in a rhythm that felt half-desperate, half-reverent. Skin dragged against skin, the friction just enough to set my nerves alight. Every shift of his body made me want more. Made me forget everything except the heat between us and the sound of our breathing getting louder in the dark.
“This is fucking hot,” Jeff whispered, his breath brushing my cheek.
“Yeah,” I murmured, pulse hammering.
I looked up—finally—and the moment our eyes locked, something shifted. The tension between us snapped like a tension cable pulled too tight. Our mouths collided, not gentle or tentative, but with the kind of heat that had been simmering for days. It wasn’t just a kiss. It was a surrender. A signal. A reckless kind of truth that didn’t need words to exist.
Jeff rolled on top of me, his body heavy and hot against mine, breath catching in his throat. Our cocks slid together, wet and fevered, caught between the friction of our stomachs. He ground his hips with more purpose, more pressure—slow at first, like he was testing the edge of control, then deeper, harder, wringing a gasp from my throat.
“You like that?” he murmured, voice low and thick.
I nodded, nails digging into his back. “Yeah. Jesus, Jeff.”
He kissed me again—open-mouthed and hungry, like he needed to feel every part of me. His tongue swept into my mouth, claiming and rough, sending a full-body shiver down my spine. My legs tightened around his waist, locking us together as we moved in rhythm, cock to cock, heat building between us with every thrust.
“You feel insane pressed against me,” he groaned, teeth grazing my jaw as his pace quickened. “I could do this all night.”
I arched up into him, desperate for more, for everything. “Then do it. Don’t stop.”
He growled softly, almost a laugh, and dropped another kiss to my throat, then my collarbone. His hands gripped my hips, holding me steady as he rocked into me, cock grinding against mine in hot, urgent rhythm. The friction bordered on too much and not enough all at once.
“God, look at you,” he breathed, pulling back just enough to meet my eyes. “So fucking needy.”
“Only for you,” I whispered, unable to bite it back.
He kissed me again, rough and perfect, swallowing the next sound I made like it belonged to him.
And maybe it did.
Jeff’s hand skimmed down my lower back, purposeful and sure, until his fingers found the sensitive spot between my cheeks. One pressed in—slick with spit and heat and intent—and my breath stuttered, a sharp, involuntary sound torn from somewhere deep in my throat. The pressure made everything sharper, more real, and I couldn’t stop the way my hips twitched forward, seeking more.
“Fuck—Jeff,” I gasped, the sound catching in my throat as his touch tipped me past language. My hips bucked helplessly, chasing the pressure, and I heard the unsteady rasp of his breath close to my ear.
“Yeah, that do it for you?” Jeff’s voice was thick, teasing.
My answer came in a raw, broken moan that clawed its way out of me.
He slid a second finger in beside the first, stretching me wider. My whole body arched, muscles tightening like frayed cable drawn taut. “Jesus,” I hissed, clutching at his shoulders. “Don’t stop.”
His cock dragged across mine, thick and slick, as he rolled his hips with slow, deliberate weight—grinding in a way that made my breath stutter and my spine go tight with need.
Words failed me. All I could do was dig my fingers into the sheets, knuckles white, like I needed something to anchor me.
“Fuck—feels unreal,” I gasped, head falling back as pleasure cracked through me like lightning behind my ribs.
“I wanna suck your cock,” I said, voice rough and shaky.
He gave me that crooked smile—half amusement, half heat—then slid his fingers free and rolled onto his back like an offering. I moved down his body, planting slow, reverent kisses along his sternum, letting my lips linger just a second too long on each patch of skin. His stomach jumped under my mouth as I got lower, the tension in him coiling tight.
When I reached the thick thatch of hair framing his cock, I paused for a breath.
He was all man—unapologetically. Everything about him felt big and solid and coarse in the way that made me feel like I was doing something I wasn’t supposed to. And that only made me want it more.
The heat pouring off him wasn’t just physical—it was overwhelming, like standing too close to something that could burn you if you weren’t careful.
I wrapped my hand around his cock, slow and firm, and the sound that tore out of him was raw. A groan deep in his chest, honest and unfiltered, like he hadn’t meant to let it out but couldn’t help it.
“God, Harrison,” he muttered, his voice already unraveling.
“I love this bush,” I said, fingers brushing through the dense thatch at the base of his cock.
Jeff smirked, amused. “Yeah?”
“Yeah, Daddy.”
He cocked a brow. “You wanna grow one just like it?”
“Yes, sir,” I murmured, letting the words drip with want.
“Let me see what you’re working with.”
I rolled onto my back, legs spreading without hesitation. His hand slid down, fingers combing slowly through my pubes like he was checking the texture. It sent a shiver straight through me.
“Fuck, that’s hot,” he muttered.
“I wanna be like yours,” I said, voice low, aching.
He gave my thigh a squeeze. “You’re getting there. Keep feeding it dirty thoughts.”
I dragged my tongue from base to tip, slow and deliberate, letting the musky salt of sweat coat my tongue and the heat of him soak into my mouth. He tasted like effort and want, like he’d been holding back for days and now there was nothing left to hide. His cock twitched in my hand, and I could feel the restraint unspooling from him in real time—like this had been simmering just beneath the surface, waiting for me to crack it open.
I swallowed him down in one smooth, greedy motion, and his whole body jolted beneath me. He was thick—so thick it pressed hard against the back of my throat, making my eyes sting and my breath hitch with effort and need.
“This cock’s fucking perfect,” I murmured, voice hoarse, as I came up for air, wiping spit from my chin with the back of my hand and staring down at him like I was starving.
I went back to sucking him in earnest, eager and unrelenting. The noises he let out—low, primal groans that cracked like thunder from his chest—sent a jolt straight through me. There was something raw about it, something so fucking primale and male, like I’d wrung the sound out of him with nothing but my mouth. And God, knowing I was the reason he couldn’t stay quiet? That made me want to keep going until he couldn’t even think straight.
“Fuck, I’m gonna lose it,” he rasped, voice shaking.
I pulled off just enough to wrap my hand around him, stroking firm and steady to keep him teetering right on that edge.
“You gonna bust for me, Daddy?”
“Hell yeah,” he groaned, voice wrecked.
“I want it all over me. Paint me with it.”
“That what you want?”
“Yes, sir,” I said, breathless.
I took him back into my mouth, hungrier this time, sucking deep while my hand pumped the base. His moans got louder, sharper, until every sound spilling from his throat was raw, desperate, and mine.
“Fuck!” he grunted.
I dropped onto my back, chest heaving. Jeff surged up onto his knees, fist working his cock in fast, punishing strokes. I lay sprawled out beneath him, aching, wanting, every nerve lit up.
“You want this fucking load?” he growled, eyes wild.
“Yeah, Daddy—give it to me!”
“Shit! I’m cumming!”
He came with a sharp, broken cry—thick, hot ropes striping my chest as his whole body bucked with the release. His breath stuttered out in ragged groans, guttural and deep, each one punched out like it had been trapped in him for days. He kept jerking through it, hand tight, milking every last drop with a low, desperate sound that hit me square in the gut. For a second, all he could do was tremble and breathe and look at me like I’d taken something from him—and he didn’t want it back.
“That was so fucking hot,” I said, voice rough and awed.
Jeff was panting, chest heaving like he’d run a sprint in desert heat. His eyes were half-lidded, dark with something that looked like disbelief and satisfaction tangled together. He looked wrecked. Gorgeous. Like sin carved into a man.
I watched his chest rise and fall, the glisten of sweat catching what little light there was. “You okay?” I asked, quieter now.
He huffed a breath—more a laugh than anything. “Yeah. Just… Jesus, Harrison.”
He reached for a towel slung over the edge of the nightstand and began to wipe me down—slow, steady swipes like he meant for me to feel every drag of cotton across my skin. Then he cleaned himself off with a grunt, tossed the towel aside without ceremony, and collapsed back onto the bed beside me, still catching his breath.
I curled into him, cheek pressed to his chest where I could hear the aftershocks of his heartbeat still evening out beneath my ear. He shifted just enough to tighten his arms around me, holding me there with the kind of easy possessiveness that made me feel drunk on the moment.
“That ought to help you sleep,” he said, voice still frayed around the edges.
I smirked against his skin. “I mean, it’s definitely better than counting sheep.”
Jeff snorted softly. “You keep talkin’ like that and you’re gonna be counting round two.”
I drifted off to sleep with the scent of him still clinging to my skin, the weight of his arms around me, and the afterglow humming low in my bones. Sleep didn’t sneak up on me so much as it folded me into him, breath syncing to breath, the last thought in my head a single, searing truth—I didn’t want to wake up if it meant being anywhere else.
TO BE CONTINUED…





Jesus, that was hot, like middle of the summer hot and steamy enough for it to be humid. I can hear your voice reading the story. Damn!! 👍👍
Great chapter. You knew it was going to happen but not when. And when it did, Harrison knew what he wanted and Jeff wasn't sure but his body had already made the decision for him.
Can't wait till morning. 😊