Brandon's Very Merry Haunted Christmas by Sherwood AJ

Author:Sherwood, AJ
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

7

One of the things my siblings have always chided me for is my blunt approach to life. I’d rather lay all my cards on the table with someone, see where they stood, before moving along. I didn’t have a lot of patience with the slow approach on getting to know someone. It often upset the cart, but I figured I’d rather know where someone stood on things before I invested a lot of time trying to make friends. If our moral codes didn’t match, I’d rather know sooner than later.

Mack was gay—Jon had mentioned that little tidbit in passing last night; not that I hadn’t already picked up on it—so I didn’t expect an adverse reaction from him about that. But I wanted to see how he took the information.

It surprised him, certainly. He blinked at me like a deer caught in headlights. “Wow. They seriously gave you grief over that? So much you felt like you needed to leave?”

The tension in my shoulders slowly eased. “Yeah. Well, some of them were okay with it. Others…. Funny how it only takes a handful of people to make an environment turn bad.”

“Yeah, I hear you there. I’m sure they argued you were just going through a phase, that no one your age suddenly has a sexual identity crisis or some such rot.”

“Heard that more than a few times, yeah.” It was part of the reason why I’d had such a hard time wrapping my head around it. Because what if they were right? I’d only had the one guy I was attracted to. But their reaction to anything non-straight was repulsive to me. Even if I wasn’t bisexual, I couldn’t stand that they were so set against it.

“You won’t find that attitude in the FBI,” Mack said confidently. “They didn’t even blink at me, and I’m gay.”

“I figured. I mean, Marc and Javier were good indications on that. And they’re still trying to figure out a way to somehow recruit Jon and Donovan. Anyway, I’m confident I’ll like this new career much better. Besides, I get to play with ghosts every day. How cool is that?”

Mack grinned at me, as I expected he would. “I’m really excited to work with you because of that, you know. Your love of spooky. So many people are weirded out about it. Even people who like to watch ghost shows don’t actually want to be there live and in person for a haunting.”

“I know what you mean.” I went back to eating, as the food was amazing. “Okay, so tell me what I can do as your anchor.”

“Basically, it boils down to two things. Keep track of me. Help me block people when I need it.” Mack paused in eating, gesturing with one of his hands. He did that a lot. If I tied his hands behind his back, would he still be able to talk? “You know mediums sometimes have trouble discerning flesh from spirit and how driving is difficult for us. Well, that’s true of me just walking around, too.

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