Homespun by Layla M. Wier

Author:Layla M. Wier [Wier, Layla M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Gay Romance, M/M, M/M Romance, GLBT, Contemporary, dreamspinner press
Published: 2013-09-11T19:22:26+00:00

“That’s one reason I didn’t tell you.”

Awkward silence, pregnant with uncertain emotion,

grew between them. “I’m sorry about your dad,” Laura said at last.

“Me too,” he said, and toyed with a chip of stone from the top of the wall before tossing it in a graceful arc across the pasture. “I haven’t talked to him since I was seventeen.”

Sometimes, as a child, Laura had fantasized that her mother was only fake-dead, like in a movie or a soap opera.

She had spun out a thousand fantasies—her mother could be stranded on an island after a plane crash, kidnapped by terrorists, working undercover for the U.S. government…. “I can’t imagine having parents and not talking to them,” she said, and felt the chilling of the silence on his end.

“Must be easy to be you, then,” he said tightly.

“I didn’t mean it like that.”

“Remember when I said you couldn’t understand? You really can’t, Laura. I’m not one of your girlfriends. I’m a gay man who’s twenty years older than you. Don’t patronize me.”

Laura clasped her hands between her knees. “It seems like everything I say is wrong. I’m really sorry and I want to help; that’s all. I know that I—” She drew breath and went for honesty. Fortescues were forthright and blunt; it was who they were, who they had always been. “I haven’t always been the best at dealing with your relationship with my dad, Uncle Kerry, and I know it. It’s not the gay thing, at least I don’t think so. It’s the dad thing.”

Kerry heaved a sigh that seemed to come up from his toes. When he spoke, he sounded resigned and weary. “It’s been just the two of you all your lives. I know that.”

Homespun | Layla M. Wier

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