“You’re not really concerned about getting this smoke off me.”
“Not really, no.” Audie leans down and runs his hands over Calhoun’s long, long legs, so smooth, knobbed at his knees. He kisses the very tip of Calhoun’s hard cock while he’s down there. Calhoun shivers.
“You’re gonna get soap in your mouth.”
“That’s why we’re getting out.”
“Let’s dry ourselves off, though.”
“Suit yourself.”
“I wanna watch you.”
Audie smirks. And when they get out, he does it slowly, every part of him, raising his arms high to dry his hair, showing off his chest. He watches Calhoun watching, watches his cock hardening. Audie dries each arm, his back, his chest, each leg. When he dries his cock, he stops, puts his towel around his shoulders, stares at Calhoun, and begins stroking himself. Calhoun flicks his eyes from Audie’s face to his cock.
“Let me do it.”
“No.”
“Please.”
“No. Go get in bed.”
Calhoun pulls the sheets down and lies on his side. His hand wanders down between his legs. Audie smiles a little. “Stop it.” He swats Calhoun’s hand away. “That’s mine.” Audie loves doing that. He stretches out next to him, cock tucking up between them, and plays with Calhoun’s wet hair. “I love you.”
Calhoun gives him that sweet smile. “I love you, too.”
“I wish you would’ve told me.”
He blushes deep and looks down. “I was so embarrassed. When you mentioned him that first time, I just couldn’t believe it — and since I didn’t tell you then I felt like I couldn’t, you know?”
Audie strokes his face. “You could always have told me.”
“It hurt so much.”
“I’m so sorry.”
“It was easier to be angry than hurt, you know? But it helps — it helps so much to know that he feels bad about it and he wanted to, and he cared. I can’t be mad at him anymore.”
Audie smiles and tips Calhoun’s face up so he has to look at him. “You can’t be mad at anyone on Christmas, baby boy.”
Calhoun shoves him. “You hate Christmas.”
“Not this kind of Christmas. This was …” Oh god, tears actually prick at his eyes and he swipes at them. “This was people I love in one place, just because they love each other.”
Calhoun strokes his face. “You finally got it, love.”
“We sang Christmas carols and you actually held hands with Baylor.”
Calhoun shakes his head. “She walked right up to take that drunk and disorderly. Like it was nothing. She didn’t know most of us before this weekend, and she walked right up and took it.”
Audie smiles. “That’s Baylor.” He strokes Calhoun’s hair. “But I don’t wanna talk about Baylor right now. Do you?”
“No. I don’t.”
Audie’s lips find Calhoun’s. Soft and pillowy, they move on his, and he sucks the lower one, a scrape of teeth, just the way Calhoun likes. His boyfriend shivers in his arms and cuddles nearer. His warm skin touches Audie’s and they tangle closer: Audie wraps his leg over Calhoun’s; they pull the covers over themselves. Their heads rest on the same pillow. Calhoun’s hair tickles Audie’s nose, and he brushes it off before he strokes his boyfriend’s back. Calhoun wraps his arms around Audie. Audie’s cock feels so good against Calhoun, god, rubbing against Calhoun’s belly, against Calhoun’s dick. Their balls touch. Audie breaks off their kiss. “Calhoun, can I just get the lube, and can we just … like this?”
“Yeah.” Calhoun smiles a little. “That would be good. I like when we do that.”
Audie slicks them both with plenty of lube. The long, smooth length of Calhoun’s cock just fits right in his hand; Calhoun arches up to him. When they press back together, they slide against one another, a perfect friction against Calhoun’s cock and his belly, his head sometimes catching just under Audie’s and making him gasp. Audie kisses him hard; he holds Calhoun tight, and Calhoun wraps around him. He moves with Calhoun, arching back when he thrusts, pressing together, shamelessly grinding up and down, swiveling his hips. Audie rakes his nails down Calhoun’s back. Calhoun’s nails dig into Audie, just below his shoulder blades. It won’t take them long. The soft, occasional brush of Calhoun’s balls against his own makes everything better, oh Christ he’s going to come soon. Audie nips Calhoun’s lips harder. He kisses over to his ear. “Gonna come. You want I should come for you?”
“Oh god. Please. I wanna feel you go. I love when you come on me.”
“Want you to come too. Are you close?”
“I’m so close. You feel so good, Audie.”
“C’mon, baby. Come for me. Oh god, you feel good. I wanna feel all that hot come on me.” Audie grinds on him harder, moving his hips to catch the right angle. He thrusts hard. “Lemme come. Please can I come on your cock?”
“Oh god please that would be so hot, please —”
Audie wants to hear him beg for it, and when Calhoun does, he loses it, shooting over their bellies, over Calhoun, bucking against him. Calhoun freezes and pumps onto him. Audie thrusts and presses and grinds in synch with him, and they come down together, sticky, close, heads buried in one another’s necks.
“Back in the shower?” Calhoun doesn’t bother moving.
“Probably, yeah.”
They shower again, then Audie curls around Calhoun in the big bed. “Can I tell you something really dumb? And it won’t come out right and it’ll sound stupid but I wanna try anyway.”
“You’re a poet. It never sounds stupid.”
“I felt like I didn’t need a Christmas. The whole idea was stupid, because I wake up to Christmas morning every single day. I turn over in bed and there you are, this perfect miracle, this light — I don’t need a special day. It’s always Christmas.”
Calhoun turns to him and touches his cheek. “Christmas isn’t for you and me. It’s for the miracle of having everyone else. The miracle of having each other — that’s for every day.” He turns back over and snuggles in, a warm bundle. “But the everyday miracle? That’s the best one of all.”
About the Author
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Julia McBryant’s interconnected series chronicle the interconnected lives of a group of well-off, high society young adults in Savannah, Georgia, most of whom have known each other since kindergarten. Their complicated relationships (and unconventional sexcapades) form the meat of the series, along with a careful attention to chronology, character, and prose. More than romantic erotica, these series detail a fully realized world of drama, theme, and most of all, memorable characters.
It’s Enough: Wills and Crispin 1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S3KR3LR
Southern Seduction, #1
#1 Gay Erotica
Crispin and Wills went from best friends to lovers in eleventh grade. Since then, their lives have taken radically different paths: Wills headed off to college
at the University of Georgia, and Crispin stayed in Savannah to become a carpenter like his father. When Wills returns home for Christmas break, Crispin’s still madly in love with him, and questions whether his best friend shares the same feelings. Neither Wills nor Crispin knows if their romance has survives the long-distance relationship, and if it can still grow in the stifling anti-gay atmosphere of uppercrust Savannah.
Set in the same staid ballrooms, these three coming-of-age, first-love shorts showcase Julia McBryant’s lyrical prose and memorable characters, alongside a high heat level and an unforgettable setting.
Spin-offs to the Southern Seduction universe include the both the Low Country Lovers and Southern Scandal series.
Like Sunshine: Wills and Crispin 2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SD5V7XL
Southern Seduction, #2
#1 Gay Erotica
After their time in Savannah, Wills and Crispin have decided to give it a try for real this time, and Crispin visits his best friend-turned-lover in the liberal college town of Athens, Georgia — four hours from the anti-gay strictures of uppercrust Savannah society. He worries their relationship won’t have changed much from the secretive encounters they shared over Christmas break. But without the homophobia surrounding their repressive upbringings, Crispin and Wills find an entirely different kind of romance.
The two shorts in Like Sunshine show two memorable characters in a sweet, coming-of-age, first-love story with high heat through the lyrical prose of Julia McBryant.
Spin-offs of the Southern Seduction universe include both the Low Country Lovers and Southern Scandal series.
Slow Dance: Wills and Crispin 3
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T2SZ8CZ
Southern Seduction #3
Crispin and Wills have been best friends since kindergarten, and became lovers in eleventh grade. It’s taken a year for them to negotiate their relationship through Wills’s first year of college, and now they’ve decided to move in together during the summer after Wills’s freshman year. Four hours away from the homophobia and prejudice of uppercrust Savannah society, neither can wait for three months of new adult freedom — and the freedom to live publicly as a gay couple. But nothing goes as planned, and their romance falters. They worked as boyfriends. Now they’re desperate for their teenage love to turn the corner into the real world.
The novella Slow Dance shows two memorable characters in a sweet, coming-of-age, first-love story with high heat through the lyrical prose of Julia McBryant.
Spin-offs of the Southern Seduction universe include both the Low Country Lovers and Southern Scandal series.
Hurricane Dreams: Audie and Calhoun 1
https://www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Dreams-Calhoun-Southern-Seduction-ebook/dp/B07TTK2J8R
Low Country Lovers, #1
#1 Gay Literary Fiction
#1 Bisexual Romance
#1 90 Minute Short LGBT Reads
“Ms. McBryant beautifully shows the reader how a first, youthful “true” love can grow and reach beyond the mere physical. Wow!” — Gay Book Reviews
Audie Currell, the only son of one of the richest families in Charleston, spent a childhood brutally abused for his sexuality. During his parents’ wine tasting, he runs off into the night with Calhoun Chatterton, and the two begin dating in secret. But Audie’s abusive childhood stands in the way of an authentic relationship — as does their families’ homophobia. Two naive teenagers, they have to hide their romance while coping with Audie’s trauma.
An insta-love romance filled with lyrical prose from Julia McBryant, author of I Wish I Were Special and Beautiful Boys, the short story collection Hurricane Dreams is a coming-of-age, first-love story with plenty of hurt/comfort, angst, and high heat.
A spin-off of the Southern Seduction series, the Low Country Lovers, like McBryant’s Southern Scandal series, can be read as a stand-alone.
Neon Saturday Night: Audie and Calhoun 2
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XM48SW7
Low Country Lovers, #2
Audie and Calhoun have been hiding their clandestine relationship from their parents throughout college. But Audie’s traumatic history of abuse at their hands leaves him with the idea that he has little to offer a committed relationship. Audie feels stuck in an inescapable narrative: he hurts, and Calhoun saves him. He’s tired of always feeling like the drama queen, tired of always playing the traumatized boyfriend. He wants something real to give Calhoun — if only he can figure out what that is. And if only Calhoun will let him.
Another true-love romance filled with lyrical prose from author Julia McBryant, the short story collection Neon Saturday Night uses humor, angst, high heat, and hurt/comfort to draw two young lovers closer together than ever.
The Low Country Lovers series is a spin-off of the Southern Seduction series and takes place in the same universe; Low Country Lovers can be read on its own.
I Wish I Were Special
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XWT4MN9
Southern Scandal #1
The youngest of five, Quinn is known throughout Savannah as the Rutledge oops baby and an inveterate party boy — but his wham, bam, thank you, ma’am philosophy covers a deep well of loneliness. Architect Ellis Ashford has shunted his daddy kink off onto a “savior complex” for years. Can they resist the magnetic pull between them, despite their age difference? Or will the Greek chorus of Savannah gossip tear them apart?
Part of the interconnected Southern Seduction and Low Country Lovers universe, this spin-off series stands alone.
Beautiful Boys: Quinn, Ellis, and Amory
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y8HNGGC
Southern Scandal #2
Quinn and Ellis have settled into a happy daddy boy relationship when they find themselves smitten with talented, smart-mouthed — and sexy — actor Amory Reed. Amory has a daddy kink. Amory wants a boy. Quinn and Ellis want Amory. But Amory’s lower-class background makes him wary of these rich Savannahians, as does a scary secret he’s keeping. They want to make the romance work. But their jealousy threatens to leave them with nothing but empty arms and broken hearts.
Full of memorable characters, including a bratty boy, a smart-mouthed switch, and a strict-but-indulgent daddy, Beautiful Boys will hook you with a good plot — and keep you reading for the high heat.
A spinoff of the Southern Seduction and Low Country Lovers universe, the Southern Scandal series can be read on its own.
Christmas Cousins: Quinn, Ellis, and Amory
https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Cousins-Quinn-Southern-Scandal-ebook/dp/B07ZTNBH84
Southern Scandal, #3
The Rutledge family Christmas always sucks, but Quinn has his beloved cousins, Delia and Baylor: all three same-age, look-alike blond partners in crime who always have each other’s backs, whether it’s saving Baylor from Grandfather’s ire or telling off the roving gang of brats. Baylor once chopped off her hair to make Quinn feel better. Delia punched people in the face for him. Quinn picked Delia up from parties at 3 am. They’re tight as tight can be.
Quinn, Ellis, and Amory are all settled in for the Hallmark family Christmas before the boys leave for the Culliver twins’ three-day Christmas party on Tybee — Quinn’s cousin Baylor in tow, and Delia soon to meet them. Ellis only tells his boys one thing: BEHAVE WHILE YOU’RE GONE.
The beach house looks like pipe bomb of tinsel and fake snow exploded. The hot tub has multi-colored blinker bulbs strung up and set to disco. As the liquor passes from hand-to-hand, Delia and Baylor turn from Quinn’s staunchest allies to terrible teases who embarrass him at every turn. As Quinn’s misery reaches a Scrooge-ish rock-bottom, something has to give. Christmas is about family. But what happens when your family sucks?
A holiday story about the power of family and the special bonds between the people who grow up together, Christmas Cousins shows the real tangles, trouble, and most of all, the special love that binds cousins together.
Southern Scandal’s novella Christmas
Cousins tells the story of the same party detailed in Southern Seduction’s What Christmas Means and Low Country Lovers’s Learning to Love Christmas. All three novellas should be read in the context of their series, but differ enough in details and perspective to be read together.
What Christmas Means: Crispin and Wills 4
https://www.amazon.com/What-Christmas-Means-Southern-Seduction-ebook/dp/B07ZKT7J52
Southern Seduction, #4
Wills and his twin Henry decide to throw a massive, three-day Christmas blowout at their beach house on Tybee. But a Christmas party needs decorations. And cookies. And pie. Wills decides it’s his sworn duty to provide them all — including Santa hats with everyone’s name fabric-painted onto them — and drags Crispin along in his tinsel-strewn wake. But Christmas is more than sticking black Santa in the corner and baking (obscene) sugar cookies. And Wills has to figure that out before his party goes to hell.
Part of the Southern Seduction series, the novella “What Christmas Means” will hook you with the comedy and give you that warm Christmas glow you’re looking for in a holiday tale.
“What Christmas Means” tells story of the same holiday party, from a different perspective, of the one in Low Country Lovers’ “Learning to Love Christmas” and Southern Scandal’s “Christmas Cousins.” The stories can all be read as stand-alones in the context of their series, but differ enough in details to be read together.
Learning to Love Christmas: Audie and Calhoun 3 (Low Country Lovers) Page 8
