In From The Cold by Carolina Valdez

Author:Carolina Valdez [Valdez, Carolina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay & Lesbian
ISBN: 9781611240641
Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC
Published: 2015-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Wendell lay with his head turned to the side and only his chest splayed across Jon's. Jon's arms were around him, and his fingers rubbed his scalp as he toyed with the strands of Wendell's hair. The heat from Jon's chest, the stroking fingers, the closeness, all felt good.

He could feel the vibrations of Jon's voice through his chest as Jon said, "Come away with me. Live with me."

Wendell stiffened. "Whoa. Where did that come from?"

He could still feel Jon's voice resonate in his ear as his arms tightened about him as if to keep Wendell from escaping.

"I've thought about this a long time. I don't want to lose you. I'm sick of touring eleven months out of the year, of being a gypsy trying to catch some sleep on a bus, rarely getting a good shower or a decent night's sleep. I'm tired of long plane flights, food poisoning and worrying about my guitars and equipment being stolen, lost or damaged in transit.

"I have a friend in New York who's a concert pianist. Somewhere in one of the Latin countries they lost his Steinway when he was on tour, if you can believe it. If they can lose a grand piano, think what could happen to our instruments, amps and stage set. It's not easy to find a new guitar with the feel and sound you love...even if it's custom built.

"We fired our first business manager for stealing from us. We were young and inexperienced, and he tricked us into giving away the rights to two of our earliest and most successful songs."

"That's lousy. Any hope of getting them back?"

"We're in litigation, but so far the attorney thinks probably not."

"That sucks. It really does. As for this quitting thing, what do Mark and Hamilton think about it?" The idea was bad news in his personal opinion.

"We've talked about it a lot. They're as sick as I am of running like hamsters on a wheel. It blows our minds that Hamilton not only found time to marry someone, but to actually have a honeymoon. Mark and I have no one. We tease Hamilton that, because he married his high school sweetheart, so he didn't have to look."

Wendell's pulse hummed, then slowed as pain rippled through him. And now you're with your high school sweetheart. You don't have time to hunt for someone else, so I'm it?

Shutting down his disappointment, he said, "To be honest, I can't see you folding up the Boyz Gone Badd tent and stealing quietly off into the night. You're a musician, Jon. The stage is your milieu, just as I'm a farmer and sheep farming's mine."

"I've reached the point where I want a life of my own. Play occasional gigs, maybe even do short tours, but not this bone-jarring, emotionally demanding thing we've done for the last ten years. Don already has a few gigs scheduled for next year and before he arranges any more, we need to tell him to stop if that's what we want.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.