Devlin and Garrick by Cameron Dane

Author:Cameron Dane [Dane, Cameron]
Language: nld
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Dusk settled over Crawford Street, and the chirping songs of crickets in hiding danced across the air. From his position sitting on the top porch step, Garrick looked over his shoulder as Grace stepped out of the house.

“Chloe is across the street at Shelby’s,” he shared, as soon as she made eye contact.

“She asked me for permission. I figured you’d be okay with it so I told her to go ahead.”

“That’s fine.” Grace ran her hands through her hair and let out an audible breath.

“Thank you for keeping an eye on her.”

“You know it’s my pleasure.” Garrick’s thoughts immediately raced back to the other kid somewhere inside this house. He gave Grace a moment to sit down next to him, and then somehow managed to talk through his held breath. “How’d it go with Shawn?”

Garrick had told Grace about Chloe’s concerns … as well as about his being gay.

Just let that little boy be okay. I’ll live with anything else that comes.

“Shawn is feeling like he wants to play by himself for a little while right now,”

Grace said. “But he’ll be okay. He’s not mad at you; he doesn’t hate you.” She gave his knee a quick squeeze. “Don’t worry about that.”

Garrick’s throat grew tighter and he felt his mouth pull down at the edges. “I don’t care about me. He can hate me if he wants, as long as he’s all right.”

“Shawn is resilient, Garrick. Chloe is too. He’s definitely bummed out; I won’t lie about that. Shoot,” she reached a step down and grabbed one of the boy’s little action figures, “he thinks you’re Batman, Superman, and Wolverine all rolled into one.” After straightening the toy’s plastic legs, she balanced it on the porch between them. “What kid wouldn’t wish a guy like that could be his dad?”

“Mother fucking shit.” Garrick’s lungs burned a line right up through his esophagus, and he felt like he might hyperventilate. He’d never been important to someone who needed him in exactly this way. He’d never mattered to an impressionable sponge-like kid. With a sharp as a tack sister too. “Mother fucking shit.”

“Don’t lose your cool on me.” Grace’s words held the same even tone she often used to keep her kids in line. “I told Shawn the next best thing is having an awesome guy like that as a friend, and that your being his friend isn’t going to change. I promised him you weren’t going anywhere, and that just like before, all he has to do is go knock on your door if he wants to hang out. Nothing has changed.” She put her chin in her hand and pierced Garrick right through with one steady look. “Was I right in telling him that?”

A pitter-patter sensation grew in Garrick’s chest, paining him and kicking up his heart rate as he recalled his frantic urgency to hightail it out of town.

You hadn’t spent almost an entire day with Devlin when you were packing your bags last night. Hadn’t had an adult conversation with an eleven-year-old, wise young woman either.

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