Lust & Longing by E. M. Denning EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: E. M. Denning
- ISBN: 978-0062882769
- Language: English
- Genre: LGBT Romance, Gay Romance, Gay Fiction
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- Page: 204
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AUGUST 1999
THE WINDOWS WERE DOWN, and the cool wind
caressed Noah’s arm as he dangled it out the passenger side.
He rode next to Ian in his beat-up pickup truck, a gift from
Ian’s parents on his sixteenth birthday. Ian glanced over at him
and quirked a smile, before turning his attention back to the
road.
“So… you’re off to college soon.”
“You could still come with me.” Noah said, his heart
twisted into a knot at the thought of leaving Ian behind. He
almost hadn’t applied, but Ian made him. Pinned him down to
the bed and begged him to do it.
All that potential, Noah. You can’t waste it. Not for me. Not
for anyone.
Come with me. Come with me. Even now, he couldn’t help
himself from saying the words, from asking one more futile
time.
“Please, Ian.”
Ian only grinned at him. “Nah. College… that’s not me.”
“You’re smart, you could do it.”
Ian barked out a laugh. “Thanks for the vote of confidence,
there, but college… not my scene.”
The road Ian eased his truck down was barely wide enough
for the beast. Branches brushed down the sides, a few dragged
along Noah’s skin as they eased down the uneven dirt road.
When they rumbled out into the clearing, Ian killed the engine
and they climbed out of the truck.
“I’ll miss this place.” Noah said after a while. They’d been
leaning against the front of Ian’s truck, watching the sky
darken and the stars light up.
“That right?” Ian asked in a cocky, drawn out way.
Noah bumped his shoulder against Ian’s. “Shut up.”
Ian’s laugh was the long rich kind of laugh Noah could
drown in.
“I’m going to miss you,” Noah said. “I could stay.”
“No.” Ian turned, finally, and pressed Noah against the
grill. He put his hands on the hood of the truck, on either side
of Noah, blocking him in. “You’re too good for this place,
Noah. You were meant for more.”
Noah scoffed. Ian leaned in and Noah could smell summer
on him. The sweet scent of summer wind in his hair, the salt
on his skin, the heat seared smell of hours spent under the sun.
It smelled like home.
“Are you doubting me?”
“Nah,” Noah exhaled. “I think you believe your delusions,
but it doesn’t make them right.”
Ian’s hands were on him then, like iron vices on his waist.
His shirt twisted in Ian’s grip. A trail of hot breath licked up
his neck and Ian’s lips brushed against his cheek. Noah bucked
his hips, rocking their erections together, and Ian laughed
against his skin.
The purest thing in his life was this, his love for Ian.
They didn’t speak afterward. It was a conversation they’d
had before. An argument Noah never won. Ian buried his face
in the crook of Noah’s neck and for a moment they existed like
that, in a space somewhere between lust, longing, and letting
go.
Ian was everything to Noah. He clung to Ian, desperate in a
way he’d never been before. All his firsts were fast coming up
against all his lasts.
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