His and His Kisses / Contemporary m/m
A routine piece of field research takes a dramatic turn when a rock fall traps PhD student Tim with his sexy Tutor Dr. Rowan Cleeve. Getting out of one tight, dark place leads to all kinds of erotic possibility.
Ebook ISBN: 978 – 1- -60054 – 157-5
Length: 7,500 Words
Genre: M/M Erotica
Price: 3.25
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EXCERPT:
His tutor leaned over, offering Sophie a hand up the last stretch. As he leaned, his worn combat trousers moulded around his backside. Tim swallowed hard, aware that a fierce blush crept across his face. He knew why he’d signed up for this kind of study. Dr. Rowan Cleeve left him weak at the knees and foolishly giddy. In a moment of ill-considered enthusiasm, he had abandoned his previous study plans to work under this man. The notion of working closely under Dr Rowan made him blush even harder. Right under him please. And really closely.
Once all four of them were on the ledge, the space felt rather crowded and precarious to Tim. A metal grill protected the cave mouth behind them. Rowan produced a key, opening a door in the grill so that they could all squirm through.
“When I first started recording these bats, it was just open and accessible. However, it is possible to access the main cave system from here, so making this particular way in inaccessible became one of the conditions on my studies. Of course, it makes life a lot quieter for the bats.”
The tunnel started out narrow, but widened as it ploughed deeper into the rock.
“In an ideal world, we’d have infra-red night vision goggles,” Dr Rowan remarked. “As it is, we have to make do with torches. It’s often the case that you don’t have the equipment you need, much less the things you want.”
Tim had been out on a few of these field trips already, carting tiny scales into loft spaces and old mines so that the baby bats could be properly weighed and measured. All they had to do was locate the colony and wait for twilight when the adults flew. Then they had a little time to collect data on the young, and ring them. Crouching in the darkness, the quartet listened to the rush of wings above them as the colony of horseshoe bats set out for the night. The rustling of leathery wings had an eerie quality to it.
“I don’t think I’ll ever get over how cute they are,” Anna said as they set to work in the main cave.
“They do have a certain charm, don’t they?” their tutor remarked.
The baby bats had been left clinging to the rock face while their parents went out to feed. All a biology researcher had to do was unhook them, take their vital statistics and persuade them to reattach.
“As you can see, I’ve already ringed this set, which speeds up our job today. It won’t be long before these little fellows are ready to fly out and catch their own moths.”
Tim accepted a tiny, furry body from Rowan’s hands and carried it over to the temporary measuring station set up on the floor. He returned it to the wall just as the last baby in the colony went over to the scales. In the torchlight, Tim found it hard to judge distances and inadvertently brushed against the other man. The fleeting contact sent a shiver down his spine. Not that there could be anything done about it. Even in the unlikely circumstances of his crush being reciprocated, tutor pupil relationships were not a good idea. Tim couldn’t compromise his teacher by doing anything inappropriate. However much he wanted to.
