They’d done the hard part, now. He could wait a few hours before he ripped Flynn’s clothes off.
He wouldn’tlikeit, but he could wait.
Maybe.
A little groping under the stall wouldn’t hurt him.
“I think it’s time I went and got coffee and doughnuts,” Violet said, standing. “Keep my chair warm for me, Flynn.”
Zach didn’t waste any time in dragging Flynn behind the stall, sitting him down, and then settling next to him with his head resting on his shoulder.
When Flynn took his hand, his heart leapt in his chest.
“Did you really tell her the truth?” Flynn asked, nuzzling Zach’s hair for just a moment.
He definitely could have gotten used to this.
“She already knew. Or at least, she knew the part where we were faking the wedding,” Zach said. “I filled her in on the rest of the details. She said once she saw that I was determined enough to go through with it anyway, she knew I’d be fine.”
Flynn snorted, squeezing Zach’s hand. “Yeah, I was surprised that we got that one past her, honestly. Makes more sense that she knew.”
“Yeah,” Zach agreed. “Listen… I need to apologize.”
“No you don’t,” Flynn interrupted. “You were in an impossible position and you wereright. You didn’t know how I felt because I was too much of a coward to tell you. Too afraid that you were looking at me and seeing Aiden, and trying to cling to what you had.”
“What changed?” Zach asked. “Because I can tell you all day every day that you’re nothing like Aiden and I feel so lucky to have you that I could cry over it, but…”
“But since when do I listen to people when they say nice things about me?” Flynn finished for him.
“Exactly,” Zach said, fully intending to dedicate himself to changing that. He’d just have to shower Flynn with compliments until he started believing them.
“I saw the look on your face when you realized Aiden was there,” Flynn said. “I saw… fear. And then I thought about all the times I’d been afraid of him, afraid of his disapproval, afraid of what he might do, and… that’s why he’s gone. Because it’s fine if he screws me around constantly, but it’s not fine if he does it to someone I love.”
Zach’s breath hitched again. He wasn’t going to get used to hearing that Flynn loved him anytime soon, but he was fine with it being a surprise that set off a pang of pleasure in his chest every single time.
“I’d stillliketo apologize,” Zach said. “Whether or not you need one.”
Flynn shifted his weight a little, linking their fingers together. “Well… I do kinda wanna try anal,” he murmured.
A rush of heat flooded Zach’s belly at the thought, but he could feel the tips of his ears burning as well. He couldn’t believe Flynn had said thatin public.
While they still had to sit out here forhours.
Swallowing, he played with Flynn’s linked fingers nervously, excitement and anticipation making his gut tight.
“You can’t justsaythings like that. Not when I’ve gotta smile at customers,” Zach said.
“I guess I also can’t say that this is all your fault for being really obvious about how much you like it,” Flynn murmured against his ear. “Or that I haven’t stopped thinking about it since that first morning, but I wasn’t brave enough to ask until now.”
Zach bit his lip, squirming in his seat, forcing himself to take deep breaths through his nose.
He probably deserved a little torture, and now that Flynn was sure hehadhim, he was proving to be a master of it.
A response died on his tongue as he spotted his grandma coming back over, having borrowed an extra folding chair from the front office as well.
“You have no idea what you just asked for,” he whispered in Flynn’s ear instead. “But you’re gonna get it.”
