Heart Unbroken by Andrew Grey

Author:Andrew Grey [Grey, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-927-7
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-04-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

LEE WAS so careful as he ate. He licked his spoon and kept his hand around the lip of his dish so the ice cream stayed where he wanted it. It was a shame that Lee was so worried about how he looked to others, though Dean did see a few people at other tables looking their way. He stared back, and most of them had the decency to turn away.

“Thank you,” Lee said as he finished the last of his dessert. “I couldn’t go home right away.”

“You know your mom only wants to protect you.”

“Yeah….” Lee set his cup on the table and put his spoon in it, then pushed it away. “She wants to protect me to the point that she’d roll me in bubble wrap and keep me in the house all the time.”

Dean didn’t believe that, at least not completely. He figured Lee’s mom didn’t want him to get hurt. “Sometimes parents can hold on a little too tight, but it only means that they care about you, right?”

“Yeah. She loves me and will do anything for me. Sometimes she does too much, though.”

Dean smiled, even though Lee couldn’t see it. “Consider yourself lucky. My mom and dad, they had their own thing. They met in the Peace Corps working in a village in Africa. Mom trained as an engineer, and my dad worked on all the machines and tractors in the village. To hear them tell it, Mom tried to engineer my father right off the continent. They immediately hated each other. My mom can be a force of nature, and my father can be as stubborn as any mule. They butted heads, fought, and argued until they apparently fell in love. They still argue with each other, but now it’s more of a game than anything else.

“I think that Peace Corps experience stayed with them. After they got back, Dad spent a lot of his free time with the kids in poorer neighborhoods, teaching them skills to help them make a living. Mom was an advocate for better living conditions, and when the city was talking about improvements, she made sure that their little, mostly forgotten area got its share of the resources. They did so much good and spent a lot of their resources and time helping the community.”

“I see,” Lee said, taking his hand.

“They had community meetings, petition drives, meetings to discuss grants, and God knows what else. Mom and Dad were always in the thick of it, driven to make the world a better place.” Dean shrugged. “But they didn’t give much thought as to how things worked out for me.” He paused. “I need to explain. On Christmas morning when I was six, I woke up and went to the living room. My stocking was on the mantle, and there was a piece of paper in it. I remember racing up to it because I was sure that it was a note from Santa, telling me where the bicycle was that I had asked for that year.

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