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238 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 28, 2020
"I guess we all have our bad habits ... Mine is catching you before you hit the ground."
"I know you ... The things that scare you are the things that you love the most."
Fourteen years old, and Cal had gotten his first taste of power when he'd harnessed two thousand pounds of muscle to his will for three whole seconds.
In Cal's fantasies, he and Eli still shared a bond, but in reality they couldn't be further removed from each other. […] Cal's eyes burned with shame and embarrassment, but Eli's gaze was so furious it was like a black hole. If there was a way to escape eyes like that, Cal had never discovered it. Terminal gravity. That's what was between them, what has always been between them.
”I should have let you land on your ass.” Eli's voice was a low rumble in his chest, so deep that it vibrated through Cal's wet shirt. […]
“Why didn't you?” Cal asked, shoving out of Eli's arms and facing him.
“I guess we all have our bad habits,” Eli said, smiling grimly. “Mine is catching you before you hit the ground.”
Cal looked straight into Eli's coal black eyes and saw him – every aggravating, infuriating, glorious but of him – and he was seen in return.
They breathed together, silent, gazing into each other's eyes without a word between them. They didn't need words. This went deeper than words, deeper than gestures, even deeper than sex.