By Any Other Name by Cherie Noel

Author:Cherie Noel [Noel, Cherie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Back when they were ass deep in sand and insurgents, Michael had assumed Devon’s reaction to his stories, and that one picture of Adrien was only the man’s longing for the simple innocence, which shone from the clumsy little twink captured in the photo. Michael shook his head. He loved Adrien as dearly as he did his own baby brother. Adrien’s heart somehow managed to hang on year after year despite the difficulties he’d lived through. Now, Michael realized Devon had been falling for Adrien even back then. Christ, he could have saved them all a lot of heart-ache if he’d just taken Devon to meet Adrien at that crap college he’d gone away to rather than going home and introducing the guy to Andy.

After over two years you would think he’d have gotten over the hot rush of anger that their hooking up had caused him, but that just wasn’t true. Michael still had to keep a tight rein on himself whenever he thought about the one time Devon and Andy got together. Recovering from the blow caused by his new best friend treating the man Michael had been in love with since his senior year in high school was—well, it was a work in progress. Thinking about it still made him want to kick Devon’s ass. Andy became distant emotionally after Devon dumped him, and even though Andy had slept with him twice, Michael still didn’t feel confident their relationship was headed in the direction he wanted. That the first time started out as a method to comfort Andy didn’t change how much it meant to Michael, but he was pretty sure Andy didn’t see things the same way. Also, the way things had ended earlier sucked.

Michael shook off the introspective turn of his thoughts eventually, but not before Devon noticed his silence. When Rose made the turn onto the highway leading towards the mall, Devon called him on his infatuation in a dry tone of voice. “Going to check on Andy?”

Michael shifted in the driver’s seat, his shoulders tensing. There was no way he was going to tell Devon any of the things going through his head right now. Andy was safely at home, but Devon wouldn’t know that.

“Yeah, I am. There were some guys hassling him last week, and now, with Adrien fired, he’ll be short an elf. Which means he’s gonna have to do double duty tonight, working as an elf while he’s the manager on duty. If those rude fuckers show up, I don’t want him to have to face them down in those damn elf-a-go-go shorts he picked out for all the elves.”

Devon cracked up. “I thought Adrien was the only one who called them elf-a-go-go shorts?”

Michael forced a chuckle and lowered his shoulders a fraction. “Nah, most of us have heard him muttering that phrase enough that we all call them that when he’s not around. We just like to let him think he’s the only one who thinks the shorts are… well, pretty much every young gay boy’s fantasy of what he’d find at the North Pole.

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