Total pages in book: 67
Estimated words: 65489 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 327(@200wpm)___ 262(@250wpm)___ 218(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65489 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 327(@200wpm)___ 262(@250wpm)___ 218(@300wpm)
“Yeah, but I….”
I could feel his hesitation. “Whatever you want, you can ask for it.”
“I’d like to watch you cook.”
I smiled. “You have a cooking fetish?”
“With you I might. But I just enjoy…I enjoy seeing you doing things you’re good at, and I know you wouldn’t have offered to cook for me if you weren’t good at it.”
“You’ve got me there. I don’t like to do anything in front of people that I’m not good at.”
“Are there things you’re not good at?”
So many. But instead of letting myself go to a darker place, I smiled. “Skateboarding.”
His eyes went wide. “Surely you never tried to be a skater boy.”
“I went through a strange phase in college, but we won’t talk about that.”
He laughed. The sound was rich, and so very real. I wanted to think of every humorous thing I could tell him just to hear that sound again.
“I cannot see you, Mr. Bespoke Suits Only, on a skateboard.”
“It’s a good thing you haven’t, because I assure you, I’m lucky I didn’t crack my head open.”
“You can’t leave me with nothing but that.”
“Fine. I met this guy, and that’s what he was into. I was going through a phase where I thought it would be very cool to be as different from myself as I could be.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“It’s hard to imagine you not being completely confident, not wanting to be exactly as you are.”
“The first few years of college were tough.”
He frowned. “If you want to tell me more….”
I shook my head. “Maybe someday I would but not tonight. Right now I want you to relax and let the warm water soothe your sore muscles.”
“You know I don’t mind the soreness, right?”
“I know, and I like that it’ll make you think of me every time you move.”
“I always think of you.” He froze as soon as he said it.
“I think of you all the time too. I almost came back yesterday, even though they needed me to stay. I wanted to see you so badly.”
“I…that’s….”
I held out my hand, and he took it, letting me pull him back to his feet. “You really want to watch me cook?”
“I do.”
“All right then. I’m sure I have plenty of things we can nibble on if we’re hungry after our bath.”
I stepped into the tub, and he joined me. I leaned against the side and settled him between my legs, letting him lay back against me. “This feels so nice. I guess if you don’t like orgies, you could always use the tub for a swimming pool.”
“You know it’s not that big, but it is a really nice being able to share it like this. I don’t use it like I should.”
“How much time do you spend here? I know you’re at the office a lot and even though the trip to London is the only one you’ve taken since I started here, I assume you travel a good deal.”
“I’ve traveled less in the past few years than I used to. Before my father retired, I traveled at least half the time. But now, I want to be on top of things at our New York headquarters. I have people I trust in London and LA.”
“I guess you’ve probably been all over the world, haven’t you?”
“I have traveled extensively, one of the privileges of coming from a family like mine. What about you? Have you had much chance to travel?”
“No. I’ve been to Florida and to see family in Boston, but that’s about it. I’ve never been out of the country.”
“We’ll remedy that, sooner rather than later.”
I felt him tense.
“Miles—”
“You’re not afraid of planes are you?”
“No, but I’m afraid of…of expecting this to last.”
I wrapped my arms more securely around him.
“I know there aren’t any guarantees, but I like you, Benjamin. I don’t want this to end.” That was as close as I could get to telling him how I felt.
“I get that you feel that way right now, but this isn’t…. It’s not realistic.”
“I don’t worry too much about what’s realistic and what’s not, I just make things happen.”
“You use money to make things happen.”
“I do, that’s true, but that’s not all I do. I work with people to find solutions, create new ways to do things, create paths that haven’t existed before. That’s what I enjoy about running my company.”
After a brief pause, he whispered, “I like being with you.”
“I can tell.” I was rewarded by watching a flush rise up his chest.
“Let’s not think too much about the future for now; let’s just enjoy this weekend together.”
“Weekend?”
“Is there a reason you need to leave?”
He shifted to look at me. “You want me to stay here all weekend?”
“Yes.”
“I thought…I thought I’d be leaving after dinner.”
“The only place you’re going after dinner is back to my bed.”
He laughed. “Very confident of that, are you?”
“Yes.”
“All right. I’ll stay the weekend, and I’ll try not to think beyond that. I don’t know how well I’ll do though.”