Love is Always Write Anthology Volume 8

ten?" "You locked to the bed with fur-lined handcuffs– three? Six?" "Mirror on the ceiling? Eight? Or holy-shit-I-hope-it-doesn't-fall?"
    They'd figured out along the way that neither found anything sexy about water sports, both could see trying a little light bondage play, and Josh had a surprising kink for looking at guys in women's underwear. Trey held back a smile, thinking of the lace he was wearing under his jeans, ready for Josh to discover when they got home in another hour or so.
    But the last completed question two days ago had been Trey's, a joke about sheep, and Josh had delayed his own turn in the mechanics of moving.
    Josh reached into his jacket and pulled an envelope out of his pocket. He passed it to Trey. "Here, I wrote it down with a visual."
    Trey opened the envelope slowly, prolonging the moment, loving the thought that he had Josh handy to either kiss or tickle unmercifully, depending. The question thing was definitely going to be more fun face to face.
    The question was on one sheet of paper, words and a printed picture:
    "My ring on your finger? Yes? No?" The picture was two male hands, clasped tight, with a gold ring on the fourth finger of each strong hand.
    Trey dragged his eyes up slowly from the picture to Josh's face. What he saw there almost took his breath away: love, need, anxiety, a question.
    "And my ring on yours?" Trey asked softly.
    "Yes."
    "Eleven," Trey said. "Definitely an eleven."
    They leaned in together and met in the middle for a kiss, and it was a long, sweet, building-forever time before they reluctantly moved apart. In the end it was closer to two hours before Josh got to see the underwear.
    THE END
    Author bio: Kaje Harper grew up in Montreal and spent her teen years writing, filling binders with stories about what guys like Starsky and Hutch really did on their days off. But as life got busy, the stories began to just live in her head. The characters grew up, met, endured, loved, but rarely made it to paper. Serious authorship got sidetracked by ventures into psychology, teaching, and a biomedical career. And by the challenges of raising children.
    Then around 2006, when the kids were more independent, her husband gave her a computer she didn't have to share. She began putting words down in print, just for fun. Hours of fun. Lots of hours of fun. The stories began piling up, and her husband suggested it was time to try to publish one. MLR Press accepted her first book, Life Lessons , which was released in May 2011. Kaje now has several novels and short stories in print, including The Rebuilding Year , a contemporary m/m romance released by Samhain Publishing in March 2012. She currently lives in Minnesota with a creative teenager, a crazy little omnivorous white dog, and a remarkably patient spouse.
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