Tell Me: Lo-Fi Love Stories, #1

By Erika Dusk

Here's my confession: I'm secretly in love with my guy best friend.

It's that gut twisting, heart pounding, pretend-it-doesn't-exist kind of love, and Aiden has no idea. I'm too scared to tell him.

But tonight, Aiden catches me listening to a spicy audio in my bed, and our usual Friday night hangout doesn't seem so innocent anymore. In fact, our routine of vintage video games and instant ramen has never felt so sexy.

I think I'm about to do something I can't take back …

Lo-Fi Love Stories are sweet and spicy romance shorts perfect for neon nights, chill playlists, and cozy aesthetics. They contain adult language and adult situations.

Reading Length: 30-45 minutes

Pairing: Female/Male

Spice level: Low-Mid-High-Highest

POV: First person, present tense

Tropes: Friends to Lovers with shades of Boy Next Door and Workplace Romance

Ending: HFN with optional continuation to Part 2

• Language: English
• Publisher: Erika Dusk
• Release date: May 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9781778183584

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Tell Me

Contents

Before You Begin …

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Copyright © 2023 Erika Dusk

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews.

This publication is a work of fiction. The names, characters, and events in this work are the products of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons living or dead is coincidental.

ISBN: 978-1-7781835-8-4 (Electronic Book)

First edition, 2023

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Before You Begin …

Thank you so much for picking up Tell Me (Aiden & Fiona Part 1).

Tell Me is part of Lo-Fi Love Stories, a collection of sweet and spicy romance shorts perfect for neon nights, chill playlists, and cozy aesthetics.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: Tell Me (Aiden & Fiona Part 1) has a Happy For Now (HFN) ending.

In order to reach Aiden and Fiona’s Happy Ever After (HEA), it is necessary to read all three stories in their arc.

If you’d like to read every Aiden & Fiona short story for a discount, check out The Aiden & Fiona Collection here.

The Aiden & Fiona Collection

One

Touch me, he says, voice husky in my ear.

He sighs, then follows that up with, Yes, baby.

And: "Oh God, your mouth is so …"

Yes. Yes. I’m there, I’m almost there, and …

My right earbud pops out of my ear, falling off my bed and clattering across the scratched hardwood of my apartment.

I let out a held breath. The audio track pauses, leaving the empty, underwatery fuzz of off-brand noise cancellation in my left ear.

Shit.

Rising from my bed, I feel around for my earbud with the toe of my fuzzy sock. What are the chances it got sucked into the underworld beneath my vintage Craigslist couch, taking Manly Midnight’s thigh-shaking audio porn voice and the rest of his sentence away forever?

Guess I’ll have to wait to find out what my mouth is so.

I should really invest in better-fitting earphones.

I’m down on my hands and knees, sweeping an arm around in the underworld beneath my couch, contemplating whether Hades lives down there with my earbud and a three-headed dust bunny, when there’s a soft knock at my door.

My head shoots up. My apartment’s a studio, so the door is only a few steps beyond the couch. It’s illuminated around the edges from the light in the hallway beyond. There’s a big floor mirror leaning on the wall next to the TV; I can see my forehead popping up from behind the couch like a startled, brunette meerkat.

Open up, Fiona. It’s raining like hell out there. Another knock. Actually, it’s cold and icy, so it might be sleet. Sleeting. Sletting?

Aiden.

Wait—is it eight o’clock already?

One moment!

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