Four to Go (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Sandy Smyth

Author:Sandy Smyth
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2012-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Mike and John returned to the pool room fifteen minutes later. John looked fine. No one would ever know he had experienced an emotional revelation. Mike, however, was another story. He looked as if he’d had a bad shock. And he couldn’t seem to drag his worried eyes away from John. Finally, Mike came over to Tom and Kate.

“I know he’s going to explain everything later, when we don’t have all of this confusion, but all he keeps saying is ‘My place was already there.’ And when I try to get him to explain, he gets all emotional. Help me. It’s killing me not to know how to help him.”

Kate quickly explained the basics of what had happened, how John had overheard Tom telling her that he and Mike didn’t “let” John into their bond, but that his place was already there and they were just waiting for him to arrive and claim it. Mike’s jaw dropped and his eyes widened in stunned comprehension.

“Never, ever would I have thought to express it that way, but it’s exactly what we both felt. That’s why he keeps saying—”

“Mike, can I make a suggestion?”

Mike nodded, still trying to compose himself.

Kate smiled and said, “If you can, back off a little, lighten up, and give him the time to come to terms with the change in his perception of his past. You can’t do it for him, Mike. He has to do it for himself. You have to be there for him to talk to whenever he’s ready.”

Tom suddenly sat up with a grin and a devilish gleam in his eyes. “You know, Mike, we both remember that shitty green jacket he wore, right? Well, I’d like to find someone to make a duplicate one up for John, adult-sized. Think he’d appreciate that?”

Mike snickered and then chuckled. “Oh, yeah, I’m sure he’d appreciate that one. He really hated that jacket.” Mike suddenly sobered. “Thanks, guys. I’ll wait until he’s ready to talk about it, but at least now I have some idea of what’s going on in his head. It helps.”

The next hour things started to calm down. Tom and Kate went back to their table in the corner where they were out of the way, but able to see what was going on in the room. They saw Mike answer his cell phone and make a comment to John. Mike and John both stood and walked out of the room. When they returned a few minutes later, they had two men with them. Tom sat up straighter, blew out a rough breath, and then sat back with a smile. “Mike and John have called in some of our old friends, if I’m not mistaken.”

Kate looked with interest at the two men. They were older than the rest of the M-G crews, well, maybe not older than all of them, but in their late thirties or early forties at a minimum. Oddly enough, they were rather unremarkable. If she’d had to describe them, it would have been difficult.

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