Art teacher Stone Larrabee dreads parent/teacher conferences. One following Christmas break becomes especially awkward, when a man with whom he shared a hot anonymous hookup and a nasty argument afterward walks in. Edison Watts.<br><br>The moment they’re reunited, sexual sparks reignite. Too many conflicts force Stone to decree there can never be anything between them but the one night, though, even as fate keeps throwing them together throughout the school year, and developing feelings become hard to ignore.<br><br>Some problems are easily solved while others, including the reason for Edison’s initial attraction to Stone and the chip on Edison’s shoulder bigger than the high school’s football field, prove more difficult. Stone can teach, but he decides must also be willing to learn and grow. When Edison promises to do the same, can they find a way to make one and one equal two?

Substitute Teacher

“No. Wait.” His cheeks hot, likely as red as the darkest shade on the color wheel on the wall, Stone stopped him.


“Maybe I’m not normal. No matter how good the sex is, I just don’t think I’m the kind of man who can do it with someone I can’t think of one nice thing to say about.”


“Wow. Not a single thing?” Edison asked. “Come on! Try. I’m not that bad. I must have at least one redeeming quality.”


“And you have a great ass. There. That wasn’t so hard.”


Stone actually smiled. “I suppose not.”


“Good enough,” he said, but once again, his hand on the doorknob, he stopped. “We can’t.”


The sound Edison made this time was pretty hot, sexual, but with a ton of frustration behind it.


“Not now that we know I’m your daughter’s teacher, Edison.”


“Which you are for another two weeks.”


Chapter 9