Bound For Home: A Sweet Contemporary Gay Romance (The Coming Home Series Book 5) by Blake Allwood

Author:Blake Allwood [Allwood, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Allwood Publishing
Published: 2023-07-19T23:00:00+00:00

seventeen

Chris

When Roth told me he was leaving, I knew it marked the end of what we’d been building together. I was not an idiot. It was a miracle I’d had him to myself as long as I did. Sure, I, my volunteers, and nearly everyone else in town had gotten used to having him around. He’d helped me get the library up and running, helped me train the few volunteers I had who took the job seriously, and charmed every person he met.

He’d certainly charmed me too, but our happy summer bubble had burst. Roth had a huge career ahead of him, with songs to sing, important people to meet, and adoring fans to entertain. The last thing I wanted to do was tie him down to this small-town life I’d built for myself. He deserved so much more than anything I could ever offer him here.

That night, we walked along the road between the library and the cabin. Doc and Amos had returned home from Oregon, so we lingered out on the huge porch until the wee hours of the morning.

“Do you think you’ll miss me?” Roth asked shyly.

“I already miss you,” I answered honestly. Just admitting that, even to myself, took more out of me than I felt I could stand.

“You know it’s not forever, right?” he asked. “I’ll call you next week. Hell, I’ll probably call you at least once a day.”

I rested my hand on his cheek. “You have to pursue your dreams, Roth. You’re so talented. I don’t want to hold you back.”

Roth pulled me to him as we sat swinging on the porch. After a while, he cleared his throat. “I know this is stupid to say, now that we don’t have more time to spend together, but I… I really… well, shit, Chris, I can’t leave here without you knowing I’m over the moon for you.”

That was more than my fragile composure could handle. Tears rolled down my face as I nestled into Roth’s firm chest. “I feel the same,” I admitted, and could already feel a gaping hole forming in my chest from having Roth ripped out of my life.

We swung on the porch for a while longer before Roth got up after kissing me goodbye. As I watched him walk toward his brother’s condo, I knew things would be different from this point forward. Even if we could somehow work out a long-distance relationship, we’d never be this couple again.

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