“No,” Logan said.
“It felt balanced.”
The word surprised him as much as it did Tommy.
Balanced.
The light turned green and they rolled forward again.
“We never really talked about the hotel,” Logan said after a moment.
Tommy shifted slightly. “We kind of skipped past it.”
Logan nodded.
“I think I needed tonight first.”
Tommy frowned faintly. “Why?”
“Because the hotel felt hypothetical,” Logan said. “Like we were trying something.”
He glanced sideways briefly.
“Tonight didn’t feel like trying.”
Tommy watched him closely.
“It felt real,” Logan continued. “Seeing you two talk. Watching how you moved around each other when nothing sexual was happening.”
He shook his head slightly.
“That’s when it clicked.”
“What did?”
Logan hesitated only a second.
“I didn’t feel like I was losing you.”
Tommy’s breath slowed.
“I felt like I was seeing another side of you I hadn’t met yet.”
The admission settled quietly between them.
“And weirdly,” Logan added, “it made me want you more. Not less.”
Tommy smiled faintly.
“You really liked watching.”
Logan didn’t pretend otherwise.
“Yeah.”
A beat passed.
“But tonight wasn’t about watching,” Logan said. “It was realizing I wasn’t outside of it.”
