Chapter 104

He took a small step back that direction, away from the door. Looked up at Jason. Their height difference wasn’t thatpronounced—some, yes, enough to be noticed, but only an inch or two—but the width, the breadth, the solidity: that was.

“Please,” Jason said. “Oh God. I want—you said you want me, and I—yes, yes, fucking yes, okay. I want you. I don’t want to hurt you. Don’t take this as a no, because it isn’t, but I’m really fucking honored and also fucking terrified right now.”

Colby, inexplicably, found his mouth tilting into a smile. His heart did that odd leap and twirl again, as if shaking dust off an old acrobatic routine. “Sounds about right.”

Jason lowered the hands. Raised eyebrows instead. “Both?”

“You see people,” Colby said. “You see me. So, yes. Honored.”

Those thick expressive eyebrows quirked. “And terrified.”

“And I want you.” At the edge of the precipice, he did. “Don’t make this harder than it is, would you?”