Something between excitement and nervousness welled up in my chest as I opened it. Someone wanted to talk tome, at this time of the morning?
Forsex?
Maybe this whole hookup thing wouldn’t be so bad if it made me feelthiswanted.
OverEasy:Good morning
Good morning?
As opening lines went it wasn’t the most… seductive, but maybe that wasn’t the point. Maybe breaking the ice was all it had to do.
Hayden:Good morning
If it was good enough for him, it was good enough for me, right?
I tapped his name to go to his profile while I waited for a response and was confronted by a pair of rainbow-striped swimming trunks and a view of this guy from thighs to collarbones.
Tanned and muscular, but not so ripped that I was worried he might love leg day more than he loved anything else.
I had only the vaguest of ideas whatleg daywas. Aaron had talked about it—he was determined not to age—but I’d never bothered with the gym. I spent my entire workday on my feet and sweating in a kitchen, that was more than enough physical activity.
My brain snagged on the neat trail of dark hair that disappeared into the waistband of his swim trunks. Where had I seen those swim trunks before? They seemed so familiar, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
OverEasy:How much more fun in person?
What?
Oh, shit. My profile. I really did leave it like that last night, didn’t I?
Hayden:I think I said slightly.
I’d just have to own it now.
I pulled on a pair of sweatpants that I’d left on top of my half-packed suitcase last night and tucked my phone in the pocket, heading for the bathroom.
As soon as I pushed the door open, I remembered where I’d seen the swim trunks.
They were hanging neatly over the towel rail now, dry and as brightly colored as they had been in that profile photo.
Hayden:Are you teasing me?
Wes. Wes was the one in the photo, which was why the app was telling me he was less than a mile away. He wasin the goddamn backyard.
OverEasy:Maybe the tiniest bit, but only because you’re cute
Hayden:Wes, I know it’s you
OverEasy:oh
OverEasy:what gave me away?
Hayden:your swimming trunks are still in the bathroom
OverEasy:shit
Yeah, shit.
The nerves and excitement evaporated like liquid nitrogen at room temperature. Of course it wasn’t someone who wasactually interested.
