A Stranger's Touch by Anne Brooke

Author:Anne Brooke
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: M/M Contemporary, Source: Amazon
ISBN: 9781602726338
Publisher: Amber Allure
Published: 2010-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

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I didn't do anything else all the day that followed. Once at home, I simply lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling and out the window. There was nothing in the flat Robbie had allocated to me that reminded me of my past. No mementoes, no tokens. I'd put all that aside when I moved here. Robbie had helped me. He'd said the past meant what it said and it should stay there. I'd thought he was right, but now I wasn't so sure. Because yesterday, the past had risen to meet me and had not overwhelmed me with the secrets it held after all.

It was part of me. Both in rebelling against it and carrying it with me when I'd finally walked away, it was responsible for who I had become. However, I could not grasp what that might mean now.

I heard Robbie come in. It was raining outside and I heard the sounds of him shaking out his coat and a muttered curse. Usually, I would go and greet him, assess his mood whenever he came to me, but today, now, I didn't. Too much of my history was lapping like the sea around me. Maybe between us, too, though I couldn't tell. Whatever the reason was, I couldn't find the will to act in my customary fashion. Something had changed.

My bedroom door was open--I never shut it as I was happy for people to watch me sleeping or fucking or whatever. Not that Robbie had invited anyone to watch us recently or even join in--maybe not in the last year or so--though when we first met, he'd been keen. It struck me then that perhaps something had changed for him, too, and I'd never noticed it.

The sound of his footsteps thumped on the stairs and then I saw the shape of him in the doorway.

"You okay?"

He sounded concerned, enough for me to turn my head and look at him. His expression seemed less hard, something around the lines of the mouth and eyes, but I couldn't really pinpoint it.

"Yes," I said. "Tired, that's all. Yesterday was difficult."

"Did he hurt you?"

"No. Well, yes, but nothing I couldn't handle, not in the end. It was strange. Like before, but more overwhelming. We didn't have sex or anything. I didn't get off either. There was pain, and I was frightened, then somehow my history, the past I've tried to run from, was all around me, and it was all right. I don't know how, but it was all right."

None of that made sense, of course. Even I could see that. I had no hope at all that Robbie would understand anything of what I'd tried so badly to say. I braced myself for his laughter or his questions, but instead he was silent.

Slowly, and keeping that green-eyed beautiful gaze all the while on me, he removed his shoes and socks and took off his shirt. Then he sat down on the bed and touched my arm.

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