Double Dared – Hayden Hall

“Plainly. Simply.” “Nothing’s plain, Harrison. It couldn’t be less simple.” “Tell me anyway.” Taylor took another step toward me, closing the distance between us until we were inches apart, and I could smell the smoke on us both and feel the heat of his body on mine. Taylor pulled the side of his lower lip between his teeth, then hardened his gaze, locking it on my face. “Alright,” he said. “I’m confused. Like, a lot. And when I’m around you, things start to seem a little simpler.

And I don’t have the words to describe it, but…” He moved an inch closer to me, so close that a shudder passed through me uncontrollably. “But maybe I don’t need words at all. Maybe I’m just a coward, hiding behind the jokes.” “You’re not a coward,” I said automatically. He wasn’t. “Then why am I still hiding behind the illusion of a conversation?”

Taylor whispered. “When we could stop talking altogether.” “Because I asked you to tell me.” “Ask me something easier, Harrison,” he said, almost pleading. My throat closed, and I forced myself to swallow. My breath was shallow, but so was his, his chest rising and falling only a little. “Show me, then.” Taylor gave a small nod, as if he were relieved that I had finally asked the right things.

And he didn’t hold back anymore. He didn’t hold back at all. The inches of space between us disappeared, and he pushed into me like he wanted to pin me against the wall, but I was bigger, stronger, and he couldn’t move me, so he simply pressed himself against me as his mouth crushed mine, and the T-shirt dropped from my hand, and my fingers found the heated skin of the sides of his torso. I didn’t stand there in confusion this time. I didn’t just take it, surprised and wary and lost in it.

I held him immediately and kissed him back, letting him know what it felt like to be kissed by a man who cared for him. Because that was how he was kissing me, too. That was what it felt like. He exhaled through his nose, quick and hard, and kissed me harder.

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Cover photo by XramRagde Cover design by Angela Haddon Edited by OneLoveEditing Written by Hayden Hall www.haydenhallwrites.com Formatted with Vellum OceanofPDF.com contents About the Book Keep In Touch Harrison and Taylor’s Mixtape 1. Taylor 2. Harrison 3. Taylor 4. Harrison 5. Taylor 6. Harrison 7. Taylor 8. Harrison 9. Taylor 10.

Harrison 11. Taylor 12. Harrison 13. Taylor 14. Harrison 15. Taylor 16. Taylor 17. Taylor 18. Harrison 19. Harrison 20. Taylor 21. Harrison 22. Taylor Epilogue Acknowledgments About Crash Course From Crash Course About the Author Also by Hayden Hall OceanofPDF.com about the book I’m not the kind of guy who turns down a dare. This is a lifestyle choice. I have committed to it fully, proudly, and without a single second thought.

So when Greg pointed across the bar at a man reading poetry alone in a black turtleneck and said “get him to agree to a date,” I was halfway out of the booth before the sentence finished. Enter Harrison: film student, built like an athlete, reads like a scholar, and has clearly never once left the house without putting on a fashion show for strangers. He saw through my opening line before I finished delivering it.

He said yes to the date before I could ask. He also had his own agenda entirely. His ex had moved on faster than he was prepared for. I needed a dare to brag about. So we struck a deal: three weeks of convincing, mutually beneficial fake dating. His ex would reconsider. My fraternity brothers would think the dare had backfired so spectacularly that I was, apparently, in love with a man.

Easy. Except when his hand settled on the small of my back in a crowded market and my brain went somewhere it had no business going. Except when he leaned in close to say something and I forgot what language was. Except when I caught myself watching his mouth and had to physically relocate my eyes.

I never met a dare I couldn’t handle.

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