Sadie clears her throat softly, like she’s trying not to laugh herself. “You guys are doing great,” she assures us.
Collin turns to face her. “That’s because you’re working with naturals, remember?”
This time, I burst out laughing. “You really don’t quit, do you?”
“Why would I?” he says, grinning. “It’s working.”
“I’ll give you that,” I admit. Because it really is. So far, I like everything about this man, and I already want to get to know him better beyond this instant attraction.
“You really are making my job incredibly easy today,” Sadie agrees, looking up from her camera, smiling. “Do you want to stay on the couch and do some relaxed, cuddled shots… or you can move to the bed setup?”
Collin glances at me, a question in his eyes, and before I can overthink it, I nod. “Let’s move.”
The bed’s covered in white sheets with a grey headboard. Sunlight filters across the mattress in uneven patches.
“Alright,” Sadie says softly. “Just do what feels natural here.”
Collin wastes no time crawling onto the bed and sinking back against the pillows, half-sitting up with his legs sprawled out. “No pressure,” he says, glancing at me with a teasing smile as I get into place beside him. When we stop moving, we’re close enough that our arms brush when we shift. Sadie says something faintly encouraging from behind the lens, but her voice is already fading into background noise because Collin is here, next to me, on a bed. Even if it’s completely innocent.
We stay like that for a moment, studying each other. Then, with a small, brave kind of grin, he swings a leg over my lap to straddle me. The move is fluid but cautious; he’s hovering over my thighs like he’s giving me a chance to say it’s too much.
But I don’t.
Because this feels so right in a way I never could have expected coming into today.
Collin’s hands find my shoulders lightly for balance, his thighs straddling mine as he slowly lowers himself. “This okay?”
Sadie doesn’t say a word, just keeps clicking. I’m vaguely aware of her moving to the side of the bed to get a different angle of us.
“Yeah,” I say, and it comes out lower than I mean for it to. “It’s great.”
He laughs again, a nervous sound this time, and I can feel it more than hear it. His breath ghosts against my cheek, and I can’t stop noticing how close we are. Thankfully, he didn’t sit right on my dick or else I wouldn’t have been able to hide the erection in my pants.
Collin’s fingers tighten slightly on my shoulders as he uses me as balance and leans toward my ear. “I can’t tell if this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever done,” he murmurs, “or the best.”
I smile before I can stop it. “Probably both. Definitely both.”
“Yeah, probably.” He huffs out a laugh. “Also, the hottest.”
I nod, the air thick with tension and intensifying by the second as he pulls back to look at me again. This session isn’t supposed to be sexual, at least, I don’t think it is, but my dick isn’t getting the message as it grows harder with Collin’s weight on top of me. It doesn’t even care that it’s not being touched in any way. Not when Collin is this close and this goddamn attractive.
Collin’s eyes flick down, mischief sparking, and I can’t help but wonder if he can feel it too. I try not to blatantly stare at his dick while he’s literally on top of me and Sadie is actively taking photos. “You know,” he says playfully, “for a photoshoot, this feels like a lot of trust.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah.” He pauses, grin spreading, and I have no idea what he’s thinking. “I could just—”
Before I can guess what’s about to come out of his mouth, he lets out this ridiculous cowboy “Yeehaw!” and bounces once on my lap like he’s riding a horse.
I lose it. I mean full-body, can’t-hold-it-in laughter. Sadie gasps somewhere behind the camera—equal parts horrified and laughing, too.
“Collin!” I manage to wheeze out between laughs.
He’s laughing too hard to answer, practically doubled over on me. “Sorry, sorry, it was too quiet and too tense! I panicked! It felt too serious in here!”
I’m still laughing, tears in my eyes. “You panicked and decidedthatwas the move?”
“It worked, didn’t it?” he says, grinning at me through the laughter.
