Meant To Be (Bayou Boys) by Cox Chris

Author:Cox, Chris [Cox, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: M/M Romance, Gay Romance
Publisher: Cox Endeavors, LLC
Published: 2013-09-26T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THREE

“Rusty Duchene? It’s been awhile since I’ve seen you. How are your mom and dad?”

“They’re just fine, thank you.” With a happy grin, Rusty let Mrs. Filler trap his palm between her two beringed hands. Levi, standing slightly to his left, gave him a relieved nod.

“How is Julie, Mrs. Filler?”

“Doing well. You know she’s engaged, don’t you?”

“No, ma’am, I hadn’t heard.”

“We miss you at church.” She turned to Levi. “Rusty and Julie always sat next to each other in catechism class. They made their First Communions together at St. Anne’’s.”

“Our family is going to St. Andrews Episcopal now.”

“Episcopal? The Duchenes have been Catholic ever since I’ve known them.”

“A few hundred years.”

Curiosity overcame good manners when she asked, “Why…?” before letting her invasive question trail off.

Rusty gently pulled his hand free, feeling his grin turn to plastic. “It’s the gay thing.”

It seemed Mrs. Filler was suddenly fascinated by his earring.

To break her stare, Rusty turned and gestured toward her rock garden. “What mood are you wanting to create here?”

A half-hour later, in the privacy of Levi’s truck, he finished drawing out his ideas and making a list of plants to purchase.

“I’ve added fifteen percent to the overall price because I have a feeling we’re all going to earn that much and more in time spent reassuring Mrs. Filler that she made the right decision before this project is done.”

“I’ll leave the reassuring up to you. You had her giggling like a teenager before you were done.”

Rusty blew out his breath, trying but failing to hold back his frustration. “She only got giggly when she found out I was gay. Now she’ll feel politically correct because I’ll be her token gay landscape designer, like her hair stylist. How many times did she tell me she wanted to introduce me to him, even though I told her I already had a boyfriend? I hate being typecast.”

Levi smirked, “It’s better than hiding who you are, huh?”

Something sharp in Levi’s voice made Rusty pause. He’d wondered a few times about Levi, but the man didn’t obviously ping his gaydar. Maybe a slight ghost echo? Maybe Levi was bi?

And now who was typecasting. Rusty rolled his eyes at himself.

Levi shrugged. “As long as it pays the bills, right? To tell you the truth, Rusty, I think you got her soothed more because her family has known yours for centuries, and not because of your sexual orientation. And your skill did the rest. Your ideas are brilliant.”

“I guess.” Rusty thought of Sean, trying so hard to get a job on his own merits. But Levi was right. The job market was mostly about who you knew, with a bit of what you knew thrown in.

“Talking of paying the bills— my boyfriend just graduated in mechanical engineering and is looking for a job. Is Graham Contracting hiring?”

“Mechanical, huh? If he were a civil engineer, I might be able to help.”

“The job doesn’t have to be in his field. He’s good with math and paperwork.” Rusty signed the design and handed it off to Levi.

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