Brendan awoke the next morning feeling stiff and achy… aware as soon as he clicked into consciousness that Stephen’s breath was against his neck… Stephen’s arms were slumped across his shoulders, and Stephen’s legs tangled up in his own.

He’d wasn’t used to sleeping like this; with another body draped over his. He’d done it with Stephen before, in ( Read more... )

Ste is staying with Cheryl now that Brendan is in prison. But Brendan has now been released without anybody knowing.

It had been like a dream. How he crept, so ghostlike. How his body moved so soft, silent and sincerely around the bedroom, and the eyes Ste thought about so often were suddenly so close - piercing into his own. In the dead of night it ( Read more... )