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

“And you’ll face me, as much as I love your angel wings—”


“I’ve never been accused of being an angel.”


“I used white there, like feathers.” Stone traced the imagined feathers with his fingertip on the way from room to room. “You couldn’t see it, but I could. I always could.”


Stone never looked away from Edison’s face, not once, writhing into the sheets, as Edison gently moved up and down his hard dick.


“Are we fogging up your glasses?” This time, when Edison leaned down to see, there were kisses.


The swipe of Edison’s wet, sweaty finger, made his vision both better and worse.


“I had to see your face when you come.”


“Now, I’m self-conscious. What if it’s ugly?”


Chapter 34