THE SHAPE OF YOU BY FELICE STEVENS – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Felice Stevens
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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“Excuse me, is this seat taken?”
The man’s heavy-lidded brown eyes regarded him for only a second
before returning to his phone screen. Eric was used to that. No one ever
paid him a second look.
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“Uh, yeah, I mean no. It’s not. Feel free.”
He lowered himself with care behind the desk and immediately pushed
back his chair to give himself room. From the time he was in college, Eric
always had trouble sitting in lecture halls and classrooms; the seats weren’t
made for people who didn’t have skinny, perfect asses. Like the man next to
him. Whatever. He hung his jacket on the back of the chair and set a bottle
of water on the desk. He really wanted a soda but felt it would be
counterproductive to the class, considering he was here to discuss better
eating habits and proper nutrition.
The instructor, a tall and of course, well-built young man no more than
twenty-five, strode into the room, flashing a bright smile. This was who
Eric was supposed to unburden himself to about his eating problem, and
who would teach him proper nutrition?
“I have Pop-Tarts older than him hiding in my kitchen cabinets,” he
muttered.
The man next to him smothered a laugh.
Shit. He hadn’t meant to speak out loud. “That wasn’t really nice, huh?”
“The truth hurts sometimes.”
Eric allowed himself a cautious smile, one he could pull back if the man
chose not to return it.
“Right?”
“I mean, he’s perfect. That smile, the body…” The man chewed his full
bottom lip, and Eric watched him, fascinated and a bit turned on. What he
wouldn’t do to kiss that mouth, just once. Great. Food-deprived and sex-
starved; the perfect personality combination. But he hadn’t had sex in so
long, he wasn’t sure he remembered what it felt like, and even if the man
wasn’t gay, aside from his work colleagues, it was the closest he’d been to
anyone in months. He allowed himself the fantasy of this beautiful, thin
man wanting an overweight librarian like him.
“I mean, what does he know about people with issues? I bet he can eat
anything he wants and still look like that.”
“But you’re thin too. You don’t have a problem.”
The man’s warm expression froze, and he gave a chilly half smile.
“Yeah. No problems here.” He turned away, presenting a rigid back and stiff
shoulders that screamed Leave me alone, and rummaged through his jacket
pockets. More than anything, Eric wished he could yank those words back
and continue joking. He didn’t know how to talk to people; he dealt with
silence and whispers all day. Full-blown conversations weren’t part of his
repertoire.
The class started, but Eric hardly concentrated on the instructor’s
introduction; he’d heard it all before. At age thirty-six, he’d gained and lost
more pounds since high school than the man next to him probably weighed
in total, although with his zip up hoodie over his sweater, it was hard to tell.
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