Gabe’s hand tightens in my hair and his hips move, as he rubs his erection against me. “I can’t believe you’re here,” I say as my lips slide down his neck. I feel his, hard and thick against my stomach as I kiss him deeper. Reading my body language, Gabe turns, lies down so that he’s on his back and I’m between his legs, leaning over him. He moans into my mouth as I push closer to him. The feel of him, the taste of him goes straight to my head-both my dick and the one on my shoulders. Gabe opens up for me and I thrust my tongue inside. Then I’m leaning forward, my tongue at the seam of his lips. I turn to him, touch his cheek with my left hand, let his hair slide through my fingers and then grab on. I’ve felt his lips twice and both times were both Gabe’s doing. The movie ends, and out of the corner of my eye, I see his head turn. Our arms though? That’s skin against skin and I think maybe I really do crave skin and flesh and warmth the same way he does.

Or maybe I’m just a selfish bastard and I’m fooling myself because I really just crave him. And even though I’m not typically like that, I suddenly want to give it to him. I just think Gabe craves contact-skin and flesh and warmth. It’s not one of those lame-ass things you see in movies, where the distance keeps shrinking while they get the balls to make a move. With each minute that passes, Gabe gets closer to me. I grab a piece of pizza and we finish the whole box, while drinking soda and watching a horror flick on TV. If they don’t find the strength to face their own demons before the darkness takes hold, they risk more than just losing each other forever. And no matter how much Lucas wants it to be true, saving Gabriel won’t make up for not being able to save his mom. Gabriel’s internal struggles are serious…dangerous. Unfortunately, ignoring their problems doesn’t make them disappear. Neither man expects the fierce connection pulling them together.

The attraction is immediate, but it’s more than their inability to keep their hands off each other. Being found on the ledge of that bridge had changed everything. Lucas is still angry, but it’s not as if Gabriel could control how his mind and body had betrayed him.

But then Gabriel disappeared without so much as a goodbye, and Lucas got himself in trouble with the law.įive years later, both men are at a loss when they run into each other at a Hollywood bar. Their pipe dream was to someday meet in LA, where Lucas would design skyscrapers, and Gabriel would learn to fly. They were only trying to deal with bad situations at home when they became lifelines for each other. Lucas Barnett and Gabriel Stewart didn’t have it easy as kids.

Touch the Sky by Christina Lee