Don't Hide From Me~Luc by Lorhainne Eckhart

Author:Lorhainne Eckhart [Eckhart, Lorhainne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781928085515
Goodreads: 35075010
Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart
Published: 2017-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“So Chase and Julian have teamed up with the kids to play video games,” Vic said as he strode into the quiet empty living room, where Luc had spent the last hour trying to make sense of his life.

He said nothing, and Vic just stood there, staring down at him where he sat with his feet up, holding a square-cut tumbler of vodka he’d helped himself to from the bar. He swirled the liquid and wondered whether Vic would add something about him drinking or maybe how he should be feeling.

“You sure about this?” Vic said.

He flicked his gaze back over to his brother, who hadn’t moved but was standing across from him, still staring down at him with what was perhaps unease.

“Yup.” He tipped the glass back and swallowed. The burn was welcome.

“Why don’t I believe you?” Vic had moved closer. From his expression, Luc had no fucking idea what his brother was thinking.

“Does it matter if you do?” Now he was being an asshole. The problem was that he didn’t know where he stood with Vic. He was such a hard-ass, and Luc never had been able to read him. Aaron, yeah, all twisted and fucked up and always there in a second. Chase was the mother hen, whose phone calls always started with “Any problems? How’s dating, your job, and anything else I need to know?” It had always been years between the times he heard from Vic, months and months. He had never reached out until now.

“Hey, I care,” Vic said. “I may not show it, but Texas… Think about it. I can give you a job here, something good, and it’s not pity, Luc. I know you think it is.” Vic was beginning to sound as if he were pleading a case, and the best argument would win.

“So I’m a prize, or what is this, Vic? I’m pretty sure with Chase and Rose, even Aaron and Brittany, you’d never try to get them to walk away from the one they love. The only difference between us is that I’m into men, not women. It’s not a choice. It’s who I am, and I love that guy. He wants a chance to have something with me—and yes, marriage. We won the fight, the right to be happy. You may not like it, you don’t have to like it, but you have to respect my right to choose who I want to be with.”

Vic had gone stone cold, and he wasn’t sure what he was thinking. Maybe he’d ask him to leave or say, “Have a happy life. So long.”

“Of course you do,” Vic said. “How could you think any of this has anything to do with you being gay? It doesn’t even come into the equation, and sorry, maybe I’m being kind of a hard-ass, kind of a jerk about things, but I don’t mean to be. It’s just that I left all of you. Chase was okay, he’ll always be okay, and Aaron…you’re wrong there.

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