Even as Jax slipped one arm around the smaller man’s body, he told himself he was not going to do this. Even as he felt Gabriel go pliant in his hold, he was silently yelling, No, no, I cannot do this!
Even as his head lowered, as if without his will or control, and his lips brushed across the light stubble on Gabriel’s cheek and then found his mouth, part of him denied and demanded he stop at once.
I’ll push him back in just a second, step away and pretend this did not happen…But he might as well tell the wind to quit blowing or the Rio Grande to flow back up to Albuquerque. He was caught in something too elemental and too fiercely powerful to resist.
He’d been keeping to himself for a long time, shunning anything that might lead to a relationship and too fearful of AIDS or damage to h
