In Another Country by Kellum Jeffries

Author:Kellum Jeffries
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781946379511
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
Published: 2019-02-28T06:00:00+00:00

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When they went to the rink he was pleased to find that most of his skills came right back. Tupper learned the basics quickly—a lot of his ice-skating skills transferred—but Dec was able to skate literal circles around him, which hell yes he enjoyed rubbing in a little.

The sign wasn’t there anymore. But when couples skate was announced Dec quickly got off the floor and Tupp followed without even saying anything. They turned their skates back in and played pinball for a while. Dec was barely looking at the circling twelve-year-olds who got to hold hands, it was totally fine.

So life within the confines of the bedroom was great, what passed for tourism in Fayetteville was fun, but the Hotshots case was a little frustrating. They’d only had a chance to go back and case the place twice more, with no results—caseloads were getting rearranged to cover a couple guys’ summer vacations, and unsolved murders took precedence over robberies, even robberies with a side of beatdown. Rollie made some noises about dropping the case altogether because who cared what happened to the fags, and Dec was glad to hear through Carter’s office wall Carter shutting him down completely with, “We’re sworn to protect ALL citizens, asswipe.”

At least Dec had gotten used to taking calls from Tupper at work; he could mostly keep from going completely pornbrain about it now. But he still got a little distracted, because he was a human with a human man-brain talking to someone he’d like to be fucking, which was maybe why no alarms went off when Tupper called and said they should meet over by Hope Mills Lake before heading to the club. And when Tupper said he’d bring food Dec stupidly assumed he meant, like, picking up some sandwiches from Subway.

Dec got to the parking lot all ready to bolt down a sandwich and then head out, but he didn’t see Tupper at any of the benches near the lot.

He wandered into the park a little, into a shady part ringed around with trees—and there Tupper was, but he was sitting on the ground. Well, actually on a stripy blanket.

Dec’s stomach got kind of cold and he didn’t know why. He sat down next to Tupper, who was beaming at him, and he ran his fingers over the blanket and looked down at his fingers and the blanket and all he could think to say was “Blanket.”

“Why, yes,” Tupper said, and went into some longwinded explanation involving Hudson Bay and First Nations and beaver pelts, which, Dec had no fucking clue.

Then Tupper started pulling food out of a basket. The food was in a basket, not a plastic Subway bag, and somehow that made Dec’s stomach feel even colder and weirder.

There was a lot of it, all fancy stuff that had to be from the gourmet section of Kroger. It was all delicious, and Tupper had clearly spent a lot of money on it, and Dec just kept feeling weirder

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