Hanging the Stars by Rhys Ford

Author:Rhys Ford
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Gay Romance
ISBN: 9781634778985
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

THE HOT shower felt good. Almost as good as the numbness of the painkiller kicking in nearly as soon as West collapsed onto the couch in his living room. Armed with an icepack for his knee and a glass of iced tea, he stared out into the night, catching the barest hint of his own reflection cast back at him in the living room’s enormous windows.

Marzo’d taken the apartment over the garage as his home base, accessible through a flight of stairs off the kitchen, and the bodyguard did a circuit of the property before heading to bed. Perched on a rise in the cliff, the house was approachable from the front and sides, which were apparently too many options for Marzo’s liking. Grumbling about a lack of electric fences, guard dogs, and gun turrets, he hadn’t been too pleased with West pointing out none of those could have stopped the bullet shot through the open front door.

His intense scowl was enough to tickle West’s humor long past the time Marzo stomped outside to do recon.

There’d been laughter upstairs as the two brothers playfully fought about baths, pajamas, and school attendance. Listening to the Danielses chatter, West found a small ache in his chest pulse, deepening with each guffaw and mocking outrageous accusation. He’d never had that kind of relationship with Lang. Their childhood was a fleeting blur of grayness, lessons, and rigid coldness. He couldn’t recall a single time he’d laughed with Lang. Not with the unfettered glee Roman belted out with his older brother.

“Grandmother’s house. Those summers,” West murmured to himself, shifting the pack over his slightly swollen knee. “When we were at her house. Did we laugh, Lang? Did we do anything together?”

They laughed now. A bit. Teased and jabbed in a way West felt was almost comfortable, but the awkwardness remained, his driving, controlling personality butting up against his twin’s easygoing nature. At some point, West became their father’s echo, and as he contemplated the ruins of his life, he didn’t like what he saw.

“Going to have to rebuild, Harris.” Toasting himself in the glass, West chuckled. “And this time, you’re going to have to get it right.”

“What are you planning on getting right?” Angel appeared behind him in the window, his vivid coloring muted to grays and browns with a hint of red from the shirt he’d pulled on over his hewn chest.

West drank him in, stared at the window and let himself enjoy the sight of Angel standing behind him, then leaned his head back to see Angel smiling down at him.

“You, love,” he whispered softly. “Well, us, really. I’m hoping that this time, I can get us right.”

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