Like You've Never Been Hurt by Jaime Samms

Author:Jaime Samms [Samms, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63476-991-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

DODGING OUT of the house without a word or a note was a chickenshit thing to do. Adam knew it. He wasn’t entirely sure why he had done it. They’d already had plenty of sleepovers over the past weeks, so having another shouldn’t be that big a deal. Their first weekend had been almost a month ago, and it had been amazing. Lazy Sunday morning sex, the newspaper, and the flea market had all been a weird sort of perfection for Adam.

He was nearly twenty-five and aware he should want more exciting things in his life, but he didn’t. He’d grown up watching the perfect marriage—fights and teasing, arguments and apologies—and he wanted what his parents had enjoyed. The strength of a relationship built on mutual trust and respect and the kind of deep love that spanned decades and death appealed to him. It wasn’t just a romantic ideal. He’d seen it in action. He’d lived under its umbrella all his life, and he wanted it for himself.

Peridot fit around him like a cozy sweater. Their first day together had been effortless, each activity flowing into the next like they were one unit instead of two separate people. They hardly even had to ask “what do you want to do next?” or “are you hungry?” It had been a symbiotic kind of decision-making he had only ever experienced with his brother Matt, and that, he put down to a lifetime of living in each other’s back pockets.

With Peridot, the added dimension of being hopelessly attracted to him only made it better.

The perfection had lasted right up until the notion of Camille had entered the room. Adam hadn’t had the least idea what to do with that. His sister’s kids had never given him pause the way the idea of Camille did. But then, Lizzie and Sarah had a place, and that was in Mary’s apartment, across the lot above the garage. No matter how much time the girls actually spent in the main house, they had their space and Adam had his.

With Camille, Adam felt like an intruder. Even the thought of Camille had been enough to push him off center and spin him off his feet. Like pirouetting without a spot—he’d lost his balance. This morning, when he woke in Perry’s bed, that dizziness had hit him again, and he hadn’t known what to do.

Unsure how else to regain his equilibrium, he’d dressed quickly and… well… run. Now he scurried down the street away from Peridot’s house. School buses passed him on the street, reinforcing the oddness of waking in Peridot’s bed knowing everyone else was starting work, school, daily living, and he was floating between his lost dream and a fantasy. He should be at his home, and Camille should be at hers. It felt wrong.

Hands stuffed in the pockets of his oversized hoodie and hair a wildly tangled mop that fluttered in his eyes with every breath of the chill fall breeze, he quickened his pace.

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