Heart Unseen by Andrew Grey

Author:Andrew Grey [Grey, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-704-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

“SO HOW is your week going?” Marti asked after he’d answered the phone Wednesday evening.

“Better than I expected, I guess.” The microwave dinged behind him, but he left his dinner where it was. He really wasn’t hungry anyway. “Work is going pretty well.” Once he and Lee were able to start building a relationship, Lee really responded and had taken the first real steps to learning about and accepting his blindness.

“How was dinner on Sunday? You haven’t called to tell me about it. Does that mean it ended exceptionally well?”

“No. It means it was a total disaster.”

“Oh. I’m sorry.”

“Everything was fine to begin with. His dad and Margaret are very nice, and Margaret’s son and her daughter-in-law are expecting a baby. It should have been a lot of fun. But Margaret invited her neighbor Peter and his boyfriend because she was hoping it would give us someone to talk with. But the boyfriend was Collin.”

Marti gasped. “No way.”

“Yeah. He met Peter at Mom and Dad’s country club, and I bet he’s using Peter the same way he tried to use me.”

“Did you say something to Trevor?”

“It gets worse. I heard them come in, and when I stood, the chair shifted and I ended up on the floor on my ass. For the rest of the night, Trevor held on to me like I was some kind of kid and going to fall again at any second. Then at dinner, Margaret made a roast, and he cut it up for me so I wouldn’t make a mess. I was so careful while eating, and then I sat at the table afterward with everyone, talking. Trevor left and I don’t know why. But I was alone with Collin talking about his boyfriend’s curated exhibit at the museum. Then after dessert, Trevor couldn’t get out of there fast enough and he took me home.” James sighed. He’d had plenty of time to think all this over. “I liked him, Marti, and I thought he liked me. But I heard whispers, probably from Collin, about me being useless and clumsy, and Trevor didn’t say anything. He just let it go on, and once he could leave, he got out of there as fast as he could.”

Maybe Collin had been right and he was completely useless and a burden to anyone he was with.

“I’m so sorry things turned out that way for you. I know you liked him and thought he could be someone special.”

“Yeah, well, my judgment regarding men has never been very good. I think I’ll concentrate on the people I can help—at least they need me—and say to hell with the rest.” James should have known things would come to this. It was the way things had happened before, so it was destined to repeat. “I mean, who in their right mind—”

“Hold on there, buster,” Marti cut in. “Don’t give me that ‘I’m blind so I’m not good enough for someone’ crap. You’ve used that as an excuse ever since Collin, the asswipe from hell, dumped you and ripped your heart out.

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