He’ll apologize better in the morning. Explain how he wasn’t thinking straight and that he doesn’t want to lose Skyler’s friendship. They’ll go back to L.A., back to their own homes, and things will go back to how they were.
He can live with only seeing Skyler for dinner once or twice a week—until Skyler inevitably leaves for a tour again, and then he’ll just have to wait for him to come back. What he can’t live with is never seeing him again.
And if he has to stop sleeping in Skyler’s bed because it confuses things too much, he can do that. He slept without Skyler for five years.
Yet lying alone in this guest bed feels wrong.
Trevor wants to be more than a guest in Skyler's life.
He’s still painfully awake when he hears Skyler and Stella come back from their walk, but he squeezes his eyes shut. After a few moments, the hears the bedroom door open and Stella’s paws padding into the room.
Skyler whispers, “Trev?” and Trevor remains silent, motionless.
He waits until he hears the door close, then breathes a sigh of relief. He rolls over onto his side, prepared to fall asleep alone. And he’s not sure if that makes him brave, or if he’s still the same fucking coward he’s always been.
Chapter Eighteen
Before
TREVOR
Trevor needed to getout of bed, a difficult task with Skyler lying right here on his back, hair rumpled from sleep and the covers fallen down to his stomach. The tour had ended, and waking up in their own bed was magical. Trevor couldn’t help but press a dozen kisses along Skyler’s bare collarbones.
“Mmm, keep doing that,” Skyler murmured as he woke. A hand snuck between Trevor’s shoulder blades to try to pull him in closer.
“We need to get up and get dressed,” he said regretfully.
“No, we don’t,” Skyler argued. “We’ve got the morning and afternoon free.”
Technically, they did. But he’d planned a surprise for Skyler that would be arriving shortly. It took a lot of willpower for him to slide out of Skyler’s grasp, especially with the sad little whimper Skyler let out, but he managed to do so and sit up. “We can’t stay in bed all day.”
“Says who?”
“Says me.”
Skyler ran a hand tantalizingly down his own chest, thumbing at his nipple. “Are you sure there’s nothing I could do to persuade you to stay?”
It was a valid seduction attempt. Though truthfully, Skyler’s presence in the same room was enough of a seduction on its own. But Trevor had a plan for today, and it didn’t involve Skyler’s family catching them naked in bed.
“Baby,” he tried in his most reasonable voice. “I’m sure there’s a lot you could do, but please don’t. I need you to get up.”
“Wait, why?” Skyler sat up so abruptly now he almost knocked heads with Trevor. “What’s going on?”
“Nothing,” he fibbed. “Maybe I’d just like to spend time with you out of bed.”
Skyler gasped dramatically. “You’re lying! There’s nothing you like more than being in bed with me.”
Trevor laughed. “Our relationship is about more than sex, isn’t it?” He schooled his face into a serious expression, pretending to be hurt. “At least,Ithought it was.”
“Yes,” Skyler said earnestly. “I’m only teasing you because I know you’re holding out on me about something.”
“Would you get your hot ass out of bed and let me surprise you? Fuck.”
Skyler grinned. “Sure! Why didn’t you say that in the first place?” He jumped out of bed, skirting out of Trevor’s reach as Trevor tried to swat his ass. “Meet you in the shower!”
Trevor remained on the bed another few seconds, shaking his head.That boy.
Skyler had figured he’d be able to fly to Ohio to visit his family after they finished their tour, but there hadn’t been time. The label already had them working on their second album.
