One Nightstand
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A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology
ONE NIGHTSTAND
by RICK BETTENCOURT
Doug’s not good with one-night stands, yet in the early hours of Christmas Eve, he returns home with Kirk—a good-looking guy he met at the club. Nestled together in the kitchen of his New England cottage, sipping hot chocolate and watching the snow fall, Doug wishes there could be more to this casual encounter. It’s a feeling that stays with him as he heads off to a frantic day of work at the mall, swamped with last-minute holiday shoppers...the last place he expects to find something magical.
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ABOUT BOUGHS OF EVERGREEN
Boughs of Evergreen is a two-volume collection of short stories celebrating the holiday season in all its diversity. Penned by authors from the UK, the USA, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, these are tales of the young and the not-so-young from many different walks of life.
Themes of family, friendship and romance take readers on a journey through some of the major holidays, both past and present, including Thanksgiving, Advent, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Eid, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas and New Year. In each we find at the very least hope, and often love, peace and happiness.
Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be donated to The Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization [USA] providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
Rick Bettencourt
Rick Bettencourt is the author of Not Sure Boys, Painting with Wine and Tim on Broadway. Rick hates to cook, and can often be seen eating out. He lives in the Tampa Bay area, with his husband and their dog, Bandit.You can follow Rick on Twitter @rbettenc, and you should also subscribe to his mailing list at rickbettencourt.com. You’ll receive all sorts of good stuff, but never any spam.
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One Nightstand - Rick Bettencourt
Boughs of Evergreen
A Holiday Anthology
ONE NIGHTSTAND
by
Rick Bettencourt
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This novel is a work of fiction and the characters and events in it exist only in its pages and in the author’s imagination.
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Doug’s not good with one-night stands, yet in the early hours of Christmas Eve, he returns home with Kirk—a good-looking guy he met at the club. Nestled together in the kitchen of his New England cottage, sipping hot chocolate and watching the snow fall, Doug wishes there could be more to this casual encounter. It’s a feeling that stays with him as he heads off to a frantic day of work at the mall, swamped with last-minute holiday shoppers…the last place he expects to find something magical.
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Table of Contents
One Nightstand
About the Author
Boughs of Evergreen – A Holiday Anthology
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One Nightstand
He rolled off me and onto his back, breathing in rapid staccatos, which I hoped was a good sign—testimony to my skill in bed. The backdrop of my bedroom window lit his chiseled features, and I pretended I had just been with a movie star.
The sweat on my chest, damp from having been pressed next to his, cooled in the stale air as the ceiling fan above us thumped in time, piercing the silence between his sighs.
I looked to my right, away from my casual encounter. Something about our new acquaintance made me feel as if I needed to give him time alone to recompose in the rawness of our afterglow. Or maybe I needed to gain some self-control. To the right of my closet, a Native American painting hung—a gift my grandfather had given to me for my thirteenth birthday several years ago. I could barely see it in the dark. The furnace whirred on, and I pulled the blanket up over my torso.
The metal headboard rattled, like it does whenever I move alone. Just a few minutes ago it clanged like the set of bells from that Salvation Army collector in front of the mall. The heat of our passion had my old bed banging against the wall louder than a Christmas hoedown. I looked over to him, sitting up, his back to me.
Through the window, the streetlight