𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐌𝐘 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 Λ dorbyn [2]

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the next morning, corbyn woke up to discover that daniel had been watching him sleep. he turned his head and saw that daniel's face was turned toward him too. his eyes were open, resting on corbyn's face.

corbyn smiled at daniel, not even fully awake.

"hi," daniel said, his face transforming with an answering grin. no one smiled like daniel. like something warmed glowed inside him that escaped with the curve of his lips.

"hi," the blonde said, his chest constricting slightly. "do you feel okay?"

"why wouldn't i feel okay?"

"after last night, i mean. i was kind of rough." daniel actually laughed at corbyn's comment, reaching over so daniel could stroke his chest.

"i had a pretty good time last night."

"good."

corbyn'd known daniel'd come. obviously. more than once. but he also knew far too well that an orgasm was only superficial, couldn't begin to embody a person's real self. he'd usually climaxed with his clients back when he was an escort, but other than daniel it was never more than a physical response. it was never really him.

"although i wouldn't count on getting lucky this morning. i'm a little sore." his mouth was still brimming with that smile.

"understood."

"do you feel okay?"

"why wouldn't i?" corbyn asked, using the same response daniel'd used earlier to stall as he figured out a way to handle the questioning.

he didn't like to lie to daniel.

corbyn almost never did. but he also couldn't tell daniel the whole truth not if he was going to be the man daniel believed him to be.

"well, you aren't usually as... as intense as you were last night. and you look really tired this morning."said daniel bitting his lower lip.

"i am tired," the blonde admitted, speaking nothing but the truth.

daniel perked up, as if corbyn's confession had given him a way to help his fiancé. "you should take it easy today. i'm supposed to go to this conference, but i'll just skip the sessions today. that way we can hang out all day."

but corbyn shook his head. in some ways, it sounded incredibly tempting, but he couldn't lower his defenses that far. "i'm supposed to take over a sociocultural anthropology class for tatum dahl, she's a friend of college. i've got to meet with her this morning. she wants me to start next week."

daniel made an indignant noise. "why didn't you tell me before?"

"i just found out myself. she's got to have some sort of surgery. i set up the appointment from the airport yesterday."

"well, that's nice she asked you to do it. you had better not be planning to work all weekend though."

"i won't work all weekend," he promised. he leaned over to kiss daniel just beside the mouth.

"now, i better get up, or i never will." he heaved himself out of bed.

when he glanced back, he saw daniel 's eyes crawling up and down his body. "what?" he asked, genuinely confused. he glanced down and verified that his chest and abs looked normal.