Boy in the Lake: boy and billionaire book 2 by Rachel Kane

Author:Rachel Kane [Kane, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

22

Aidan

This morning everything feels different. The sun is brighter. People are happier. Even Jerry seems slightly less terrible; he glances at my clothes as we go down to breakfast and doesn’t complain about them. Mom fusses a little—I swear, why won’t you wear that nice polo I bought you—but that’s just Mom. My hair is brushed back, my earbuds are buried deep in my pocket instead of in my ears, and I look, for all intents and purposes, like I’m ready to join the world.

I’ve got a secret.

The line at the breakfast buffet moves quickly; everyone here knows all the options by now, and moves straight to their favorites. I’m not even grossed out by it. No jokes about how shiny the scrambled eggs are. Or how the oatmeal is exactly the color of cement. Nope. I’m a new man.

“Don’t hog all the bacon, boy, save some for the rest of us.” But Jerry’s smiling when he says it, and I realize—hog…bacon…he’s making a little joke.

“No problem,” I tell Jerry, and pause in my excavations.

I wish someone would ask me why today is different. We’re sitting at the little round table, Mom is chatting to Jerry about whatever’s on-tap today for our sessions, and she keeps glancing over at me and smiling. Then, when I smile back, her face brightens even more.

Nobody can ask me what’s up, of course. Or if they did, I’d have to lie. The trouble it would cause would snap the world in two, as easily as this bacon snaps. I’m not in the mood for snapping.

Under normal circumstances—not that anything about the past few days has been normal—I would’ve been pretty pissed. I spent all of yesterday evening hoping for more word from Daniel. Secret plans. Meet me behind the staircase. Something like that, anything. And as the hours went on, and I didn’t hear from him, I got worried, then mad.

“You’re gonna want to pay close attention today,” Jerry’s telling me, and I didn’t even realize he’d started talking in my direction. I blink and try to remember what he just said.

“Why, what’s up?”

His scowl is brief. On the one hand, he needs to criticize me for not paying attention. On the other, I am sitting down here at breakfast with them, with my hair brushed, with only one shirt on. My phone is put away. I am the model stepson. So he relents.

“Goals,” he says triumphantly, as though he invented the concept himself. “Today’s all about goals. Realistic, achievable, measurable goals. Love it.”

Oh hey great, maybe I can get my leg caught in a bear-trap too.

I knew what my goal was, and it had nothing to do with getting back to school or choosing a career or anything like that.

It was to get Daniel alone again.

I can’t even describe what happened yesterday, but it has been on my mind. Constantly. Every moment. I felt like I was going to give myself blisters last night, jacking off over it. Thinking of the way his

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