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owlonmywristJust one more chapter in Ashton and Samantha's story. What will happen?
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Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 30
“Samantha.” His voice is hoarse, thick with emotion. His eyes—those same eyes I painted in the regret section—are locked on mine, filled with tears. He swallows hard before he can speak again. “Sam… hey.”“Hi,” I whisper.He turns away, swiping at his cheeks. “Look at you. You really made it to the big time, didn’t you?”I chuckle, though tears are already gathering in my eyes. “Yeah, well… I kind of owe it to you. Just a bit.”He barks out a laugh. “Yeah, I’ve never been anyone’s muse before. Not sure whether to feel flattered… or disgusted with myself.” He looks back at me, the humor fading fast. “Definitely disgusted.”I blink, and tears spill over.“I know this is your big night. And Matt told me you’ve been up since 4 a.m., so I know you’re exhausted. If you want to talk later, we can. I’ll take you back to the apartment and we can talk tomorrow. Or—after you sleep for a week,” he adds with a small, broken smile.I study him. And I allow myself to feel everything I’ve ever felt fo
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It’s 2 a.m. and I’m drowning myself in a bottle of tequila. It stopped burning hours ago, not too long after Zoe left.Fuck, Zoe. I can’t even think about her without taking another swig—but when I bring the bottle to my lips, I realize it’s empty. Just a few drops left.Well, shit.Sooo... the tequila’s gone. Time to start on the vodka.I try to stand and make my way to the bar we’ve got set up on the other side of the room. Unfortunately, I miscalculate and slam my shin into the coffee table.“Fucking hell, that hurt!” I hiss. “Who moved the damn coffee table?”I let out a groan and start to fall forward, catching myself barely on the arm of the couch—just as the front door opens. I hear someone giggling and a hasty, “Shh! Shhh!”I turn my head, but my vision swims, and it takes a second to make sense of what I’m seeing.“Cole? Dude, what are you doing standing there in the dark?”Only after he speaks does my vision settle, and I see my roommate, Kent Johnson. He’s wearing ripped, fi
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I wake up to the smell of Axe body spray and fabric softener. My head is resting on something warm, and my arms are wrapped around it too. I’m still half asleep, so nothing really registers—until I hear a deep, masculine voice.“Never would’ve taken you for a snuggler.”My eyes fly open, and I try to jerk back, but one of my arms is pinned underneath his back. When I focus, I see that I’m in bed with Kent. Both of us are shirtless—he’s in boxers, and I’m still in sweats.“What the fuck happened?!” I practically scream in his face.He just laughs. “You seriously don’t remember anything?”I shake my head, and he mutters, “Figures.”He sits up, and I immediately scoot to the other side of the bed. I’m not as freaked out as I wish I was, and that pisses me off.“What happened?”“Look, man, I came home—” Kent starts, but I cut him off.“With a guy.” The words come out with more heat than I meant, and I try to play it off, rolling my eyes and dragging my hands down my face.I hate that I fee
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It’s the beginning of March, and Kent has been pulling more and more hours at work. He works at this place called Zoom, a company he started at about a year ago. It’s a video telecommunications company that’s been used a lot in the business sector. It’s kind of like Skype used to be, but clearer and easier to connect.Kent’s been working longer hours because China’s been under quarantine due to a pretty nasty virus. People over there are starting to panic, saying it’s going to be another pandemic, like SARS or Zika. Kent’s a little on edge about it too, but I mean—how much did our lives change because of SARS? Or Zika? So I wasn’t supposed to travel to specific places. Meh. None of those pandemics ever affected me personally, and I don’t see this one being any different.Still, it’s lingering in the back of my mind. Especially with Kent’s job.He’s been helping expand Zoom’s user interface for China and for companies who normally send employees overseas. He’s a badass programmer, and G
Last Updated : 2023-01-24Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 4: Cole
Two weeks later and we are in full lockdown. Santa Clara—our county in California—has had 20 deaths as of today, one of them a teenager, the first in the country. This shit is getting real. It sucks, it’s scary, and I don’t like it.You know what else I don’t like? The headache that’s come from trying to deal with all these couples who are having to change their wedding dates, along with the conferences, trainings, parties, and random events scheduled over the next month. I’m on the phone for hours every day trying to figure out how to rearrange all these events around everything else we’ve already planned. At least most of these events coordinated through us for venue, food, alcohol, and rooms. They just have to work around their families and florists now. But trying to cram two whole weeks’ worth of events into other slots gives me a migraine by the end of every day. I feel like beating my head against the wall.And that leads to my final problem with this lockdown: liquor stores are
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It has been a LOOOONG several months. The company I work for, Zoom, has been making a lot of changes since COVID started at the company. We are now a household name, used in nearly every business. The sudden expansion has made my other programmers and I have to work overtime, adding features that are needed to keep things moving smoothly in business meetings, doctor’s appointment, and therapy sessions. But none of that comes cheap. So many hours are put into making sure that one new feature is added appropriately. To troubleshoot any issues. And do you know how much money we sank into bandwidth and memory storage? It’s insane. I was promoted, not to long before COVID began, to section manager. We’re in charge of developing new tools for the program. Due to the increased traffic and usage of the site, along with all the different types of applications it was being used for, we had a lot of different things in the works. I mean, a kindergarten teacher is going to need very
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I’ve been so pissed at Kent lately—and fucking pent up because it’s been months since I last got laid. I’ve been jacking it to straight p**n this whole time, trying to rewire my brain. Trying to stop wanting guys as badly as I do.And it doesn’t fucking work.Do you know how hard it is to want something so badly—something your body craves—but your mind, your upbringing, keeps screaming it’s wrong?I thought it would be okay if I was watching it with a girlfriend. If she was into it too.But now? I’m alone. I can’t say I’m doing this to get the girl going. This is just… for me.And that scares me. Scares me that maybe—just maybe—this is who I am. And that my family will never accept it. If I can’t push away these urges, these needs, then I might lose the people I love more than anything.But what’s the harm in just looking? Not participating—just watching. With COVID, I’m not around anyone but Kent.And that’s going great.So I do it. I open Pornhub, mirror it to my TV, and pull
Last Updated : 2023-01-31Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 7: Cole
The feeling of Kent’s hot, wet mouth around my cock is so fucking good. Between that and the fapping I did before, I’m already close. He’s deep-throating me like a damn pro, and the sounds of him gagging on my cock push me even closer to the edge.“I’m gonna cum if you keep that up,” I mutter, hoarsely.He pulls off me and looks up, tears streaming down his cheeks from how far he took me, his chin soaked with spit. His eyes are full of heat. He’s never looked sexier.Voice raw, he says, “Give it to me. I want to taste you.”“Fuck,” I whisper.He smirks, licking up my cock from base to tip without breaking eye contact. My dick throbs at the sight.“Kent…” I whisper, barely holding on.His eyes blaze with hunger as he takes me deep, cheeks hollowing as he sucks. The orgasm is building, winding tight inside me.He grabs my hand and places it on the back of his head, guiding me.Fuck yes.“On your knees, Kent,” I order. “I want to fuck your mouth.”He grins as he pulls off. “Take me, baby.
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Hey friends! Thank you so much for reading Love in the Time of Quarantine. I hope that you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing. Here are a couple of announcements/interesting information for you. 1. If you are interested in what I listen to while I’m writing, you can find my playlist “Creative Juices” on Spotify. I love all different kinds of music, so there's a little something for everyone. 2. Other books on GoodNovel: Trio of Mates Series: 4 werewolf books that take on the idea of what would happen if one of the leadership was gay and couldn’t produce an heir. Lots of very graphic smut. (completed) Trio Legacy Series: The stories of the children of the wolves introduced in the Trio of Mates Series. Completed: Hide and Seek, Ongoing: Red Rover Dissonance and Harmony: The story of a high school girl who has to face her rapist at his sentencing hearing and deal with her PTSD from that night. Graphic violence and rape scenes. (completed) 3. Follow me under the same name
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 30: Jorge
I’m standing outside the girls’ apartment—our old apartment—with a picnic basket of baked goods and a cooler full of drinks, fruit, and toppings. I brought muffins, cinnamon rolls, danishes, cinnamon raisin bread, and fresh bagels.Okay, I went a little overboard. I can admit that. I’m just so fucking anxious, I don’t know what to do with myself.I was already awake when Andie’s text came through last night, replaying everything Angel had said to me earlier. I’d been scrolling through old photos of Andie and Jaime, staring at all the joy I used to have. I miss them so damn much. It took losing them to understand exactly how badly I’d fucked up.I didn’t even hesitate. I texted back immediately that I’d bring breakfast.And for the first time in a while, I fell asleep without any trouble.Granted, it was only for a few hours—I had to make deliveries at the bakery this morning—but I got there early, dropped everything off, and grabbed the best of the morning’s offerings for them.Now I’v
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 29: Jaime
I’ve been tossing and turning in bed all night after listening to everything Angel and Maddie said tonight.“You three belong together.”“He loves you.”“He wants you back.”“What do you have to lose if you do call him?”I know what my heart wants. I also know what my heart is afraid is going to happen. How can I allow him to possibly hurt me—us—all over again?What’s the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? Wouldn’t it be insane to let him back into our lives and hope it ends differently?Angel and Marta have both said he’s reduced his hours at the business. That they’ve hired new people. That he’s learned his lesson. Could it be true? Could he really have changed for us, even if he didn’t think we’d ever come back?I don’t know.We’ve been in bed since midnight, and it’s now 3 a.m. With a huge sigh, I get up and grab my robe, tying it tightly around me. I can’t lay here any longer. And if I keep shifting, I’m going to wake
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 28: Andie
Jaime and I go about making dinner in silence. We’re a well-oiled machine at this point, moving easily around each other in our kitchen. Angel and her partner Maddie are coming over tonight for dinner and to play cards.It’s something we started back in college with Angel—a weekly card game. Each week, someone picks the game we play, and once a year, each of us is supposed to introduce a new card game. We use candy and snack foods for any games that require betting. It’s more about hanging out and having fun than anything else.Maddie and Angel have been very careful about who they let into their circle, as have we, so we all feel comfortable being around each other, even with COVID still going on.Unfortunately, this is how much of our life has been since Jorge left: a silent orbit around each other. We hold each other through the tears and the pain, but we don’t really talk.I mean, what’s there to say?We’re enough for each other—but not for the man we love.It hurts. And we’re grie
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 27: Jorge
“Angel, do you have tomorrow’s shipment of bread all packaged? Carmello’s needs the delivery an hour early. I’d like to be able to have everything on rolling carts so I can just load up the trucks the second I get here,” I call to Angel.When she first started working with me, I had brought Angel on just as a delivery driver. But over the last two months, I have consciously tried to pull myself back from the business, and I’ve made Angel a partner. We have three drivers, a part-time baker, and two part-time packagers. I’ve cut my hours back so that I’m working nine-hour days, as opposed to the sixteen-hour days I was working before.The only reason that I’m driving tomorrow is because our early morning guy took the day off. Otherwise, I’ve even built in Wednesdays and Sundays as days off.“Yes, everything’s all ready. Just waiting for the last batch to finish cooling before we get it packaged. I’ll get that done in the next hour,” Angel tells me.I let out a huge sigh. “Ok. I’m heading
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 26: Jaime
It’s been a week since our last interaction with Jorge. We’ve been communicating via text and notes left at the apartment. The morning after our breakup, Jorge was gone before Andie and I even woke up. He’d packed a bag and left a note saying he’d be in and out while we were at work over the coming week.He’s moving into an apartment over his parents’ restaurant. It used to be his dad’s office, and over the years, various family members have crashed there when they were in the doghouse with their wives or girlfriends.Not a bad place—but not exactly the kind of space you’d expect someone with a thriving business to live in. Still, with COVID still bad, Jorge decided to stay somewhere only family had been. Said it was safer.Trying to decide what belongs to who over text is awful.I’d honestly thought Jorge was the one. The guy I’d spend the rest of my life with. When we added Andie into our lives, it felt perfect. For a while.So we bought everything together—TV, couch, microwave. Even
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 25: Andie
In that way that grief between people who love each other will sometimes turn sexual, when Jorge turns to Jaime and kisses her, she kisses him back.I lean in and kiss the side of his face. He turns toward me and—God—it feels good to kiss him. I’ve missed him so damn much. It’s been too damn long.Jaime brings his mouth back to hers, their kiss hungry and desperate. My hands go to the bottom of the hoodie he’s wearing and I rip it off of him.Jaime finds his mouth again, and I lean down, licking his nipples. He groans into Jaime’s mouth, his body tensing in arousal. He loves having his nipples played with. At the same time, I rake my nails down his abs.Jorge pulls back from Jaime’s mouth to look down at me. “Please. I need you both.” His voice is so full of need.I look at Jaime, asking if she’s okay with this. Because this is going to be an end, not a reconciliation. But I want this. I need him.Jaime nods, both of us catching the motion.Jorge surges from the chair, knocking it to t
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 24: Jorge
Andie looks between Jaime and me, and I can tell she immediately understands what’s going on. She’s always had that ability—to take in a situation at a glance and know exactly what’s happening. I guess that’s what makes her such a good programmer.And an expert at calling me on my bullshit.Ever since the day I triggered Jaime’s meltdown, Andie’s been more distant with me. I think she realized that, even though the promises I made to her and Jaime were heartfelt, they weren’t ones I could keep.The time I managed to get after that? It felt more like it was for Jaime’s benefit than for Andie’s. As introverted and quiet as she appears, Andie doesn’t take shit from anyone.She gave me more rope than I deserved. And I guess I finally used it to hang myself.“How far are we into this conversation?” Andie asks calmly.I blink at her, caught off guard by how level her voice is.Jaime answers instead. “I told him he’s not treating us like priorities. That the last chance we gave him was the la
Love in the Time of Quarantine Chapter 23: Jaime
I’m sitting on the couch flipping through TV channels when Jorge walks in. It’s been two days since our failed date night, and this is the first time I’ve seen him for more than a passing second. He’s dressed in sweats and a tank top, hair wet from a shower—he must’ve just come back from a run.Andie and I have been sleeping in her old room ever since that night. With the hours he’s been keeping, I don’t really know what he’s up to anymore.Honestly? I don’t know if I can even muster the energy to care. Every time I try, it just ends up hurting.“Hey…” Jorge says tentatively, sitting on the arm of the couch.I glance over. “Hey,” I reply, then turn my attention back to the TV.“Um… where’s Andie?” he asks, like he’s not sure what to say.“Doctor’s appointment and then grocery shopping.” My responses aren’t angry—just short. I give the remote a voice command to switch to N*****x and start scrolling through options, skipping past the show I actually want to watch.Shadow and Bone. Can’
