Another Believer by Stephanie Vaughan Read Free Book Online Page A

barely rounding the corner before David began whispering furiously at him. “Are you trying to get us thrown off the train? Maybe you have the money to get to Portland some other way, but I don’t.”
    “Oh, listen to you. What happened to Mr. Go-anywhere-you-want-as-long-as-you-look-like-you-know-what-you’re-doing, huh? Would you stop worrying? Everything’s going to be fine.”
    Having cleared the stairs back up to the second level, Jonah could drop an arm around David’s shoulders, smiling to himself at just how great it felt. David’s body was amazing. Perfect. Jonah’s hard-on had faded while talking to the porter, but just the thought of getting a little privacy and running his hands over David’s naked body was reviving it.
    “I can’t afford to screw up.” Flashing an annoyed look up at Jonah, David accepted the arm over his shoulders without comment.
    “No one’s going to screw up, so relax, okay?”
    “Easy for you to say.”
    Jonah rubbed David’s arm and pulled him a little closer. Leaning over, Jonah buried his nose in David’s hair, inhaling the lingering scent of David’s shampoo as well as the warm fragrance of David’s skin that lay beneath. “I love the way you smell.”
    “Stop distracting me. I’m pissed.”
    David’s words would have carried a little more sting if he hadn’t been leaning into Jonah, rubbing his head on Jonah’s shoulder like an affectionate cat.
    “Yeah, I figured. I say we go find our seats and hang out until Porter Dude finds out if we’ve got the room or not. We can always go to Plan B if the room thing doesn’t work out.”
    “Plan B? I can’t wait to hear.” The aisle narrowed up ahead, so side-by-side wasn’t possible. David slipped out from under Jonah’s arm, tossing a smirk in Jonah’s direction as he moved to take the lead.
    Jonah squeezed one denim-covered butt cheek as David passed, grinning when David tried and failed to evade it. Waiting until they dropped into their seats to lean over and whisper in David’s ear, Jonah couldn’t resist adding a little lick. “Plan B would be finding a blanket and waiting until they dim the lights tonight.”
    The look of horror that came over David’s face wasn’t a shock. For all of David’s breeziness on the subject of rule-breaking, Jonah had him pegged as a basically law-abiding citizen. The little accompanying shiver he’d detected was gratifying, though.
    “You’re nuts! Do you know how much trouble we could get in?”
    Seated next to David, Jonah ran his fingers down the inside of David’s arm, stroking the soft skin there as he gazed into David’s dark eyes. “Nah, the worst it could be is indecent exposure or lewd in public. Don’t worry, though--we won’t get caught.”
    “Do I even want to know how you know that? You’re right we won’t get caught, because we won’t be doing any of that.”
    Jonah slipped his hand down to David’s knee, stroking there with the same rhythm he had used on David’s arm. This time, though, his fingers strayed up under the first couple of inches of David’s shorts, creeping under the material to toy with the warm skin he found there. “It’s all up to you, I promise.”
    Despite doing his best to look indignant, David’s eyes gave him away, straying again and again back down to where Jonah was touching him. The little flare of his nostrils as he breathed in Jonah’s scent and the way his tongue flicked out periodically, as though wanting to taste, only confirmed that David was much more interested than he wanted to let on.
    “Besides,” Jonah continued, “I feel pretty good that the steward’s going to come through for us and get us a room. Meanwhile, I’m going to use the time to go over my stuff from the school--I know I’m forgetting something. What about you? You finally going to read your magazine?”
    David’s neck was right there, though, calling to Jonah. So he leaned in and placed an open mouthed kiss on it, licking lightly at