Love You So Sweetly by Tara Lain

Author:Tara Lain [Lain, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-568-7
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

HARPER WALKED away from Remy’s office with a confident stride and a take-on-the-world expression. Lies. All lies. Harper was a mess. Exhibit A. He hadn’t informed Sylvan, the man Harper presumably loved and had traveled across the country to be with, that he wouldn’t tell him a single fact about Merced Enterprises no matter how badly Sylvan might be about to fuck up. Exhibit B. He’d just told Remy that he was behind him no matter what, when being around Remy was totally dumb.

Like a call from the great prankster in the sky, Harper’s cell rang. He sighed and clicked. “Hi, Mama Two.”

“Hi, darling. Why do you sound awful?”

“Hang on.” He stood and walked out of his cubicle, then down the hall to the emergency stairwell. He stepped in and closed the door behind him. “Okay, now I’m in a quiet pace.”

“Is your office noisy?”

“No, not exactly. But it’s not private. It’s like a big fishbowl that’s supposed to encourage collaboration, but it also makes it hard to keep a secret.”

“Have you got a secret, darlin’?”

“Oh, Mama Two, I think I’ve made a terrible mistake.”

“Mr. Hoag?”

He blew out a breath. “Yes. Some days I’m not sure what I was thinking.”

“You needed an excuse to leave here, Harper. The only reason you’d allow yourself for leaving was something huge like a great love, so you manufactured one.”

If someone had walked into the stairwell and smashed him in the head with a lead pipe, he wouldn’t have been more shocked. For seconds he couldn’t even speak. “Why—why didn’t you tell me?”

“That’s not something one friend tells another. I tried to suggest you evaluate carefully, but you were desperate to leave, and I didn’t blame you. I figured you needed to go to California, and you’re so smart, you’d realize your error once you got there. Which you have. So now all you have to do is extricate yourself from him and enjoy your new life.”

He raked a hand through his too-long hair. “I need to come home!”

“No, dear. Windy Pines is a wonderful place, but it’s not big enough for the likes of you. You’re a genius, Harper. You need challenge and opportunity.”

“Hell, Mama Two, I’m some genius. I haven’t even been able to do anything about getting MercedMart reopened in Windy Pines.”

“And why is that, Harper?” She sounded like a schoolteacher, patient and encouraging.

He puffed a breath. “Because retail as we know it is drying up, and there’s not enough business to keep it going.”

“Correct. So if you had gotten it reopened, it’d only have been for a little while anyway, dear. We’re not your problem, Harper. We’ve got to figure out how to live in a modern world—on a lot of levels. You need to thrive in that world and be happy.”

“I don’t know if I can.”

“Is there more to it than Mr. Hoag?”

“Yes.” He cringed at the speed with which he’d replied.

“Tell me.”

“I know this sounds like the worst kind of fickle idiocy, but—oh God.”

“You have feelings for someone else?”

“Yes, and I’m a total fool.

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