Series: Fever Falls Series by Riley Hart
Total pages in book: 101
Estimated words: 96922 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 485(@200wpm)___ 388(@250wpm)___ 323(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 96922 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 485(@200wpm)___ 388(@250wpm)___ 323(@300wpm)
“Yeah, your boyfriend’s nose,” he said.
Surely, by the fact that he was standing there, having come all the way to Fever Falls to visit me without a work-related reason, we were stating something we both already knew, but it meant the world to me.
Dax had taken me by storm, amid the chaos my life had become. What were we doing? I wasn’t sure, but all I knew was I wanted it so badly.
Our mouths magnetized together once again.
I hadn’t realized how good it would feel to use the word.
Boyfriend.
I had a boyfriend. I had Dax Munro, and he had me.
Why did that feel like fucking everything?
33
Dax
When I opened my eyes and saw Jace curled up against my body, his head resting on my chest, I thought it might be a dream. If it was, I didn’t want to disturb it, to rouse myself, so I enjoyed gazing down at him, appreciating what his weight felt like against me, how good, how right it felt when our breathing was in sync.
Gradually, as my thoughts collected, I remembered the night before, when he met Serena, and how incredibly he’d handled himself. When we established we were boyfriends.
I, Dax Munro, had a boyfriend.
How crazy was that?
He stirred against me, his eyes opening, and he shifted his gaze up to me, smiling, I hoped because of how enjoyable our evening together had been once we’d gotten to his place.
“Mmmm,” he said, affirming my confidence in what we’d worked up in the bedroom the night before.
“Still thinking about my dick inside you?” I asked.
“More like having my dick inside you, but the other was perfectly lovely too.” He winked.
“Ooh, it’s that signature wink from the commercial,” I teased.
“Nah. That one looks more like this.” He demonstrated the subtle difference between the one he had just offered and the one he’d shared with the world through the commercial, and I laughed.
“So relieved to know you have a wink saved exclusively for me.”
Mac approached the bed and got up on his hind legs, his front ones pressed against the top of the mattress as he stuck his tongue out and glanced between us.
Jace and I looked to one another, exchanging smiles before we forced ourselves to get up. We slipped into the shower, and afterward headed downstairs and worked together on breakfast. He made sausages while I prepared the quiche. I wasn’t much of a cook, but I’d picked up a few things in our time together, and had found this particular recipe online. We downed breakfast quickly before getting ready and heading down to the station.
Jace had asked me before I arrived back in Fever Falls if I’d be interested in participating in the annual fire-station car wash with him. The money they raised went to support the Fever Falls Equality Center. Jace had assured me it was a sight to see, but I couldn’t have realized how much until we drove up alongside the lot beside the station, which was jam-packed with vehicles.
The men and women were stripped down, all in sexy shorts, the girls in bikini tops. Zed was scrubbing the roof of a truck, and Ash turned the hose on him, which made Zed laugh as he retreated quickly, dipping his sponge in water and tossing it at Ash, who caught it effortlessly while continuing his attack.
Everyone was having a good time, and since the scene looked like the beginning of some epic porn film, a crowd had formed around the event, people holding their phones up to take pics and vids.
I had to ask. “Is it always like this?”
“Oh yeah. And it’ll get even busier. If you’re thinking about keeping your shirt on, think again, because they’re gonna wanna see all that Sexy Donnie Gee is working with.” He reached over from the wheel and pinched at my abs.
“Sexy Donnie Gee.” I chuckled. “Now there’s a nickname I can get behind.”
We parked and joined the crew around the car wash, and I could tell by the spectacle that we were going to be getting some views online. I’d figured there’d be press around to snap some pics of Ash Carmichael and Hottie Firefighter, but short of having the local news present, this was about as much coverage as the event would need to generate online interest. One of those rare instances that seemed to orchestrate itself, that didn’t need to be coordinated with thousands of dollars to set up the perfect photo op, though considering how perfect it was, I figured anyone who caught wind of this would think it had been so cleverly planned.
While the crowd with their cameras made me uneasy at first, like with everything else, I slipped right back into the habit I’d developed in my childhood.
Jace and I stripped down along with everyone else and started cleaning cars with Ash and Beau and some of the other guys at the station. My blossoming relationship with Jace made it easy to forget the cameras and the attention, since he was distracting enough to make everything else background noise. We relaxed into the fun, something which was pretty effortless considering how silly we all felt because of the spectacle.