Arrows Through Archer by Nash Summers

Author:Nash Summers [Summers, Nash]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nash Summers
Published: 2017-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

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As usual, when Mallory came home after a day spent at his shop, he found me sitting in the big chair in his workshop. I was thumbing through one of the books I’d found on the bookshelf in the living room when I heard the door handle twist.

“Hey,” Mallory said, huge grin on his face.

“Hey. How was your day?”

He shrugged. “Long. Boring. How was yours?”

“Long and boring.”

“Want to go out for dinner?”

“Only if you let me pay.”

He laughed. “You got yourself a deal.”

I followed him back inside the house and went into my room while Mallory went into his own. It was strange thinking of the space as my room, and even stranger was the nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach.

I showered, shaved, and put on cologne. When Danny originally packed my suitcase, most of the clothes he’d packed for me were sweatpants, worn jeans, and T-shirts. But luckily, when I had unpacked weeks prior, I’d found one button-up dress shirt and a pair of charcoal slacks.

When I was done dressing, I checked myself over in the mirror. My hair had grown a little longer, but it wasn’t that I had noticed first. I looked different, somehow. Less… hollow.

Mallory was waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs. He’d trimmed his beard and had dressed in an outfit similar to my own. Except, like with most things, Mallory looked ten times better.

He smiled wide when he saw me. “You look great.”

When I reached the bottom stair, I gave him an obvious once-over. “So do you.”

He hooked his finger into the waist of my slacks. Immediately, all the blood in my body rushed to the spot his finger touched. It might’ve been him who pulled me closer, but I leaned forward, wrapped my hand around the back of his head, and kissed him.

His moment of hesitation was quickly replaced with lust when I pressed my tongue into his mouth.

Almost reluctantly, he groaned, then pulled away.

“Archer.”

When he said my name like that in his low voice, it was hard to be deterred. I moved into him again and he chuckled.

“Hey,” he said. “This is all kind of… new to me.”

“Yeah. Sorry.”

“I haven’t kissed anyone in years.”

“Have you ever kissed a man?”

“Yes.” He took my hand, brought it to his mouth, and kissed the palm of my hand. “You.”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it. I didn’t know…” His voice trailed off.

“That you were even attracted to men?” I guessed.

He shrugged. “I don’t know. I was young when I met my wife. I was so in love, I never thought about anyone else, man or woman.”

I nodded and took his hand. “I’m starving.”

Mallory adjusted his pants and said in a voice so quiet I don’t think I was meant to hear it, “Me too.”

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