“Alex doesn’t know or care what words come out of his mouth. “Not awful?” Alex says between kisses, resting his head on the pillow next to Henry’s to catch his breath.Īlex is NEVER self-conscious except when he wants to impress Henry. “Alex thinks, dizzily, that it’s been nearly five years of foreplay, and enough is enough.” “I’m gonna take your pants off now,” Alex tells him. “Hi,” he says, when he reaches Henry’s eye level. “Henry looks up into his eyes, speechless.” He’s always known, he says it readily and without shame. Alex isn’t sure why, or what to do with it.”īecause he’s been in love with you for 200 years you ass!Ī lot of the development of Henry’s character was figuring out his own relationship with his queerness. “There’s something different about the way he’s kissing now–it’s measured, deliberate. He doesn’t, he reminds himself, even have feelings for this guy. One of the first lines ever conceived for this book.

“God, if any ghosts of Founding Fathers are hanging around the White House tonight, they must really be suffering.” He’s unsure of the dress code for inviting your sworn-enemy-turned-fake-best-friend to your room to have sex with you, especially when that room is in the White House, and especially when that person is a guy, and especially when that guy is a prince of England.” He’s not sure if he should take anything else off. “I’m going to die,” Henry says helplessly. “Alex looks up and almost breaks into deranged laughter–a portrait of Alexander Hamilton.” Henry has been waiting his whole life for someone to tell him this. I took a White House tour in high school that included the Red Room so I knew I had to set an important scene there, since it’s one of the only rooms I can describe firsthand. “She opens the door just enough to let through and Alex hauls Henry into the Red Room with him.”

“The slightest of expressions crosses over Amy’s face.”Ĭash is the indulgent one but Amy, the fellow queer, is the real MVP.

This is a reference to Jenna Coleman, who I always pictured as Bea. “June is off chatting with an actress from Doctor Who.“ My favorite oft- forgotten Henry detail! He has SO MUCH 007 merch. “How dare Henry come into Alex’s house looking like the goddamn James Bond offspring that he is.” “England has a relatively new prime minister, and Ellen wants to meet him.” They’re about to come face to face again for the first time since ~the kiss~ so LET’S GO!

When we last left off, Alex was realizing that he just might be bi and that he just might definitely have a crush on Henry.

Rwrb book