A fire by Sarah Masters
Author:Sarah Masters [Masters, Sarah]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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The weekend ends all too quickly. Sunday
morning saw us eating a cooked breakfast and
making our way down the hill toward Josh and
Sue’s. I store my car in their garage, and we’re
using it for the long drive back to the place I once
called home.
The car trundles along at a steady pace, and
Ryan’s dozing in the passenger seat. I take the
time to think about what’s to come and how I’ll
deal with it. I’ve got no idea how long the police
enquiry will take, but I’m guessing the money
Mum left me will see me through if my boss at the
candle factory doesn’t take kindly to me just
bunking off like this. Yeah, I know Josh said he’d
tell him why I’d gone and that business is slow at
the moment—and the boss is a good sort—but
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still, I can’t help feeling I’m taking the piss out of
his kind nature. Well, nothing I can do about that
now. We’re halfway back, and someone’s got to
sort out the old dear’s funeral, clear out the
house, and put it up for sale.
I think about that for a while. Mum never told
me much to do with her finances, and for all I
know she might have remortgaged and still owe a
stack to the bank. No matter. I’ll deal with that
when it comes to it and not before. If I think about
things now I risk overloading myself with shit and
breaking down from stress. Because it wouldn’t
be from Mum’s death. No, never that.
But what if it hits me unexpectedly? What if,
despite the past four years and me telling myself
I don’t care for her, I find, when it comes right
down to the wire, that I do? What if those good
memories resurface—more than I realised were
there—and I miss the woman? What if I miss her
and hate her in equal measure?
What if…what if…what if…
I blink and sigh, shutting out the persistent
thoughts, turning to other, more pleasant ones.
Outside Josh’s, before our journey began,
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something clicked inside and enabled me to say
the words I should have said to Ryan a long time
ago. Maybe saying them in front of Josh helped,
I don’t know, but I said them all right.
“I expect I’ll bring Ryan back with me to live.”
Ryan had nodded, and his face lit up, eyes
wide, smile firmly in place. God, it had been so
easy, and I wonder if I was able to say it because
the old dear has gone. She can’t disapprove now,
and there’s no one else left for me to ask
permission to live the life the way I want to live it.
Once we’d got in the car, Ryan had asked,
“You all right?” the way he always does, always
has, and yeah, right at that moment I was all
right. Blinding, I was blinding, and now I’m
burning.
Burning with love.
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