Roughly a week later, (and all due to painting the fence) Ryan works out that he really has a thing about hipbones.
He doesn’t usually see Alex’s hipbones. His jeans and shorts all draw the line above the hip—not much above, but above, all the same. And when they are removed, then Ryan’s mind is, quite frankly, on other things entirely.
But the shorts that Alex wears to paint Nan’s fence are more low-slung than usual, and that jut of bone, puncturing the line of long, flat stomach, is the sexiest thing that Ryan has ever seen.
Including Maria Marquez and her suddenly completely unalluring breasts.
That’s how, he’s sure, he ends up tackling Alex into a wall in Nan’s garage. He’s never picked Alex up before, and he’s heavier than he looks, but the wall takes most of him, and Alex gets th
