Page 38 of Free Fall #1

Sejin

“T he cats are great,” I say, curling up at Dan’s side and listening to the rain pound the top of the van. Another day lost for his training schedule, and this time I can see that it bothers him.

“Time is getting short,” he’d said earlier as he glared ominously out the open van door at the gray sky. “This weather is bullshit.”

I agreed, but hadn’t known how to soothe him other than by taking his pants off and sucking his cock. So, I did that and some of his tension melted away as he wrapped his hands into my hair, fucked into my throat, and then come with a hard grunt.

Afterward, he’d licked my hole and fingered me while watching me jerk myself off. Pretty low-key for us, but it was relaxing as the rain had dumped against the metal roof.

Now we’re naked and cuddling, discussing my visit to Peggy Jo’s house yesterday and whether I plan to take her up on the offer to housesit for a month while she goes to be with her daughter during and post-delivery of her grandbaby.

“Be careful. Those cats are assholes.”

I raise a brow. I’m in pretty far with Dan to be discovering this red flag now, but it’s a big one. “You don’t like animals?”

“Love animals. Hate cats.”

“Cats are animals.”

He looks skeptical. “Okay, I don’t hate cats. Cats hate me.” His expression shifts to embarrassment. “Probably because I’m scared of them.”

“Why? They’re so adorable.”

“Exactly. My fourth foster mother’s cat was very cute. She liked to lie on her back and show off her fluffy tummy.”

“Oh, no.”

“I reached out to pet it—” He shows me a scar on his arm, one I’d assumed was from a fall while climbing, like most of his others. “It was a trap. One of many of that fiend’s tricks.”

I laugh.

“Cats aren’t trustworthy,” he says like it’s an indisputable fact. “So be careful. Don’t let Peggy Jo’s lure you in with their cuteness. It’s all a front. They’ll bite if you give them a chance.”

I blink at him. He’s so earnest and strangely vulnerable and so, so wrong.

“Are you going to take the job?”

“Obviously,” I say, rolling over to grab my phone so I can check the notification that dinged a few seconds ago. I’m relieved that he has a decent, if sad and distorted, reason for disliking cats.

“Is Astro live?”

“Nah. Just BTS Official making another announcement,” I say, putting the phone aside for now. I can always see what the members of the most famous KPop group in the world are up to later.

“You have notifs turned on for KPop groups?” Dan asks.

“Yes? You have notifs turned on for Ice instead he starts stroking his own dick and grinning.

My hands shake as I get back to what I was doing. I apply lube to my cock, biting into my lower lip at the sweet slick of it on my skin, and then press against his asshole. He’s still wet from my saliva, but the lube makes everything nice and slippery down there.