Eromenos by Theda Black

Author:Theda Black [Black, Theda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TKB Books
Published: 2019-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

15

SETH WOKE, LOOKING over at the chair where Xander had spent the night. He sat up, heart hammering. The toilet flushed. He sagged against the headboard. He heard water running. Xander came from the bathroom, buttoning a black shirt. He sat on the chair and dug beneath it, fishing, pulling out his high tops and tugging them on.

“Where we going?” Seth asked, throwing aside the covers and getting out of bed. “Give me a minute to hit the bathroom and I’ll be ready.”

Xander jumped a little when Seth leaned to kiss him, a quick brush of lips. Xander’s eyes were red and tired, his face pale, but he smiled at Seth. He’d shaved, and it made him look younger.

At the door, Seth turned. “Don’t leave. I’ll be right out.” He waited until Xander nodded.

Seth hurried, straining to hear the door just in case Xander got some stupid idea to leave him there. He brushed his teeth and washed up, looking in the mirror. His freckles, normally faint enough to be unnoticed, stood out in his pale face. There were shadows beneath his brown eyes. Xander wasn’t the only one this shit was getting to.

He scrubbed his face on the hand towel and walked out. “So where are we going?”

“Hiking.” Xander paced in front of the bedroom door.

“In the rain? Did you bring a raincoat?”

“No. You?”

Seth shook his head.

“You don’t have to come.”

“I know. You up for some breakfast first?”

“No.”

“Coffee?”

“Yeah, if you want, but we need to go. Get your jacket.” Xander was out the door and starting down the stairs before Seth had left the room.

Coffee was brewing in the kitchen, gargling as it dripped into the carafe. Beth was nowhere in sight. Seth breathed deep of the fragrant aroma and rubbed his empty stomach. He glanced at Xander, then sighed and went to the cabinet, found a travel coffee mug. He hoped somebody didn’t need it today because it was going with him.

Xander frowned at him when he grabbed the carafe and pulled it out, still dripping coffee.

“What, you’re in a hurry,” Seth protested, pouring. He took a sip and made a face. The front end of the coffee pot was extra strong. He shut his eyes a moment, sighed and nodded at Xander. They walked out of the kitchen and through the living room.

Xander opened the front door. The rain blew in, cold and wet. They hurried down the porch steps and ran to the Chevelle.

Xander started the car. “It’s not far.”

Seth didn’t bother to ask where.

They drove through town, comprised of a couple of blocks with a grocer, a general store and a few houses on the main road, plus the gas station and the church they’d already passed. The steady drizzle of rain made everything more dreary.

“So this is the whole town. Wow.”

“Yes and no.” In the gray light, Xander's eyes looked like green glass. “There are quite a few more houses behind the main road, none of them really close together. Like Beth’s place. Higher on the mountain are more people scattered around.

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