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    Louis is a thirty five year old novelist, known for writing both brilliant and scandalous books.

    Harry is a twenty five year old editor who is thrilled to be assigned to such a literary icon. However, his excitement quickly fades away when he finally meets Louis, who turns out to be an absolute disaster… and a complete knobhead. He wants to be so far away from him… and yet, he wants to suck the man all night long, until his jaw is numb and aching, until he has drained all the cockiness out.

    Maybe kiss him on the lips too?

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    “Let’s enjoy each others’ company. You’re fit; you’re young; you’re a bloody doctor. You’ve got everything going for you.” There’s a moment of hesitation before Louis plants a gentle kiss atop Harry’s head. “I’ll be whatever you want me to be as long as we’re having fun, yeah?”

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    Drunk, loose, and excited on the first night of his two-week-long cruise, Doctor Harry Styles finds himself with a little extra company on what has turned out to be a lonely experience. Louis, the pilot who helped fly him across the Atlantic, is the object of his fling.

    Thus begins an adventure filled with laughter, sun, and trauma rearing its ugly head. Deadline on their companionship, the pair commit to enjoying their time - and Harry, the screw-up he is, can't help but lose himself in the fantasy.

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    Louis’ Nan just wants him to be happy, to settle down with a nice boy, and bring him around for Christmas.

    Louis is too busy with his career to bother about relationships, but in an attempt to appease his Nan, he sends her photoshopped pictures of him and his pretend boyfriend, Harry. The fact that the man in the pictures is none other than Harry Styles, world famous Gucci model—and recurrent star of Louis’ fantasies—is irrelevant. It’s not like their paths will ever cross…

    So it comes as somewhat of a surprise when Louis returns home for Christmas and walks into his Nan’s sitting room only to find the real-life Harry Styles happily chatting away with the grey-haired ladies of his Nan’s Crochet Circle.

    Featuring Niall and Liam as Louis’ childhood friends, Harry as the painfully perfect man of Louis’ dreams, Zayn as Harry’s very protective best mate, Louis’ Nan as a well-meaning matchmaker, and Louis as a guy who thinks he’s happy with his life, until a certain someone shows him what he’s been missing.

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    “Maybe we just...” Louis hid his face in Harry’s neck and choked down a whimper. “Roll with it? It has to, like, die down after a bit, right? And we can figure out how to stop it when it’s not so... intense. Right?”
    Say yes. I need you to say yes. I need you to agree with me.
    Harry’s hand sweeps calming strokes up and down his side, wide and warm. His thumb bumped over the ridges of his ribs.
    “Whatever you need, Louis.” Harry assured. Louis knows with morbid certainty that he’d wanted to say Omega, and it sends shivers sparking down his spine.
    He shut his eyes against Harry’s skin and suffocated the sigh building in his chest.

     

    Or, the one where Harry bursts in on Louis in heat and things only get more complicated from there.

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    12 Sep 2023

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    His face is hazy behind my blurred vision, as tears begin to fall. I try to stop them, but they gush forward unheeded. I feel a thumb rub across my cheek. It’s both rough and soft; masculine but kind. I open my mouth to speak but nothing comes out. What… What was his name again?

     

    In his every day life all Charlie wishes for is to just go back to sleep, because at least there he is happy.

    See notes for TWs.

    Chapter 1 is just a Preface with some information. Story properly starts from Chapter 2 onward.

    Rating changed from T to M due to content from chapters 13 onward.

    I know people hate first-person POVs but meh.

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    11 Jul 2023