Gabriel's Storm by Sue Brown

Author:Sue Brown [Brown, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-548-9
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2020-11-19T06:00:00+00:00

“THAT WAS… anticlimactic,” Sam observed fifteen minutes later, as they sat on the rock on the clifftop again, both of them nursing hot drinks. By mutual consent they had retreated back outside. In public there was less chance of the electric moments between them which were becoming all too frequent. Gabriel looked down in his mug and swirled the cooling liquid. He had drunk more coffee since Sam had arrived than he had in the previous month. He was going to have to go shopping soon to replenish his stores.

“They’re busy,” he said, aware it was lame.

Sam was right. It had been so routine. Gabriel had given the information to a woman, and Sam had assured her he was okay and not being held against his will. He tried not to snicker at Gabriel’s loud snort, and they promised to send a police officer when the village was accessible again. The call was over, and Gabriel suggested they take a drink out to the clifftop. Sam had looked so lost, and he just wanted to take him in his arms, but that way lay danger. Better to put emotional distance between them.

Sam frowned as he stared out to sea.

“What are you thinking?” Gabriel asked hesitantly.

Sam took a long while to answer, but eventually he sighed. “I don’t know how I feel about the fact no one has reported me missing. Does no one give a fuck about me enough to even make a report to the police?”

“You don’t know your real name,” Gabriel said, “or where you lived, or anything to give the police something to match. Give it time.”

“How much time?” Sam snarled. “I need to know who I am.”

A thought occurred to Gabriel, and he didn’t want to mention it, but he had to, just in case it triggered something in the mists of Sam’s cotton-wool memory.

“I don’t want to upset you, but there might have been someone on the boat. Below decks was flooded, and I didn’t have time to check before the boat sank.”

It had been a close enough call as it was. He didn’t think he’d ever tell Sam just how close they had both come to drowning.

Sam ran his fingers through his long hair and winced as they got caught in tangles. “I hadn’t thought of that. God, does that make me selfish? I didn’t even ask if anyone else was on the boat.”

“You’ve been kind of busy.” Gabriel smiled at him.

Sam didn’t smile back. “I might have had family on the boat.”

Gabriel thought of the gut-wrenching loss in his heart every time he thought of Jenny and Michael. “Do you feel like you’ve lost anyone?”

The silence stretched between them for long moments before Sam answered. Gabriel listened to the screech of the seagulls overhead and the waves breaking on the beach below.

“No. I feel like the boat was meant to be my grave. Whoever put me in the boat wanted me dead.”

“You don’t think it was an accident? You took the boat out and got caught in the storm?”

Sam shook his head.

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