Page 44 of Adored

“Well, his name was Thomas, and we shared a room at the boarding school. He was intelligent, funny, and he liked boys too. Apparently, his parents sent him there for the same reason. To get him straight.”

Gamble kept eating, and let Poe talk.

He loved listening to his voice. It was melodic with that British accent. When he spoke, it gave him chills.

Still, he couldn’t believe that this was his man. They survived being tracked by mercenaries, and they found their way back together again after Poe ran.

Life was looking good.

“We had football one day and,” he began, reminding him, “not your kind of football. Soccer,” he said, clueing him in. “We both headed back to our room, and there was a shower attached. A full loo,” he stated.

Gamble loved how thick his accent was now that he was back home in the UK.

It was kind of sexy.

When he was in America, it softened, and he sounded more like a local. Now, he was getting the full Poe experience, and it was alluring.

“I went in first, and I had to be giving off those gay vibes, I guess because as I was washing my hair, I felt a hand on my ribs. When I turned around, he kissed me.”

Gamble ate his soup.

He was curious about Poe’s past.

Mostly because he wanted to be the new memory that gave him all the joy.

“It was my first time with a male, and I’ll never forget it. He was definitely the Top in that situation. I don’t think I was his first, but he was mine.”

Poe ate some of his food.

Gamble was curious.

“And did you like him being the aggressor? Asking because I want what we have to be amazing for both of us. I don’t want to cross lines…”

Poe stopped him.

“I’m giving myself to the man I love. I don’t have any lines with you. You have to be you, and I’ll be me. We’ll work it out.”

He hoped so.

Poe was curious now.

“What about you?”

Gamble shared.

“I was eighteen and just out of boot camp. The base was outside a town, and me and a bunch of the guys went out to have a few drinks. No one carded Marines if you wore your fatigues. The waitress was my first, and I don’t know her name. She flirted with me, and we had some fun in her car. That was the beginning of my sexual journey that led me to you.”

That made him curious.

Poe had been fifteen when he first had sex, but Gamble…that surprised him. The man was sexy, and he imagined even in school he’d been a heartbreaker.

Those eyes…

“Not in high school?”

Gamble was honest.

Thankfully, it was a long time ago.