Bonfires by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-341-1
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

AN HOUR later the kids had unpacked Kellan’s clothes and personal items and effectively converted the game room to Kellan’s bedroom for as long as he needed a safe place to stay. Christi had gone so far as to break out some gaming posters and some old football posters that Olivia hadn’t thrown away from when she’d had a major crush on one of the Green Bay Packers. They put the posters up, and a picture of Isaiah that Kellan had drawn in art, and Larx had fished out his old comforter—this one blue and brown—and the teddy bear Olivia kept on her bed for when she came to visit.

“It’s got good love in it,” Christi said soberly. “When we first lived here and Olivia and I had nightmares, Larx kept that bear in his bed. We’d crawl into bed with him for that night, and he’d give the bear to us the next night and say it had all his good dreams in it to keep us safe.”

Kellan hugged the bear self-consciously. “Did it work?” he asked, like this was important.

“It did,” Christi said, nodding at Larx. “We could sleep when that bear was in bed with us—it was Daddy making sure we were loved.”

Kellan hugged the bear some more and looked at Larx with naked longing in his green eyes. “I can have it? Really?”

Larx opened his arms, and Kellan rushed in like any kid he’d ever hugged. “Yeah, kid. All yours. Same love there, I promise.”

Kellan nodded and set the bear down on the corner of the futon on top of his pillow. He looked past the room then and said, “Do you think Deputy George is ready to go to the hospital yet?”

At that moment the dryer went off, and Larx grimaced. “Give him five minutes—his clothes just finished.” Aaron was showing Kirby how to clear the garden and finish building the bonfire, a task the George men had appointed themselves, apparently.

“Uh, Larx?” Kellan asked, looking from Christi to Larx and back.

“Yeah?”

“Uh, Deputy George stayed here last night?”

Oh. “Yeah.”

Kellan smiled a little. “Okay. I’ll, uh… I’ll keep it secret.”

“Not for too long,” Larx conceded. “It’s just… very new.”

“It’s a good thing.” Kellan nodded for emphasis. “Me and Isaiah, we can’t be the only ones, you know?”

“I know.” Larx clapped his hands to snap them all out of it. “Okay, everybody—I’ll go tell Aaron to get dressed and we can get this road on the show!”

Aaron shooed Christi, Schuyler, and Kellan out to the SUV before he went out himself, pausing for a minute to corner Larx in the kitchen.

“What?” Larx asked, his stomach upset with all of the possibilities for shit to be wrong. “Is there something else I don’t know? Another windmill to tilt at? Another fucking dragon hiding in the trees?”

“Larx. Hush.”

Aaron was getting good at shutting him up with a kiss, and Larx opened to him greedily, needing all of the comfort and want and warmth that Aaron was trying to shove down his tonsils with his persistent tongue.

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