Nick Nolan by Double Bound (Sequel To Strings)

Author:Double Bound (Sequel To Strings) [Bound, Double]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-11-09T11:35:17+00:00

"You never answered my question."

Arthur sighed. "Which one?"

Jeremy sat up and glared at him. "You know which question."

"OK, OK." He chuckled. Then he looked skyward, as if divining a reasonable answer from the seagulls orbiting haphazardly overhead. "If there was one thing I could stand to be more selfish about, it would be... probably finding a partner.

Someone to build a life with, even at my age."

"Thought so. So how do you find someone? Even at your age? " He laughed.

"That's the problem, Jeremy. I already did."

He looked down. "Sometimes I forget about that, you know? And after what you went through with Danny, I don't blame you for not trying to find someone now."

He reached into his backpack and pulled out a soda. "Want one?"

"Sure. Do you want one of those chicken sandwich-y things?"

"I think they called it a sanduiche." Jeremy laughed as he handed over a can. "See, I'm learning Portuguese."

Arthur chuckled, but then his face grew serious. "I guess I just don't know how to look for someone," he said as he withdrew their lunches from his bag and cracked open his soda. "That's the funny thing, you know? Because when I was younger, guys always came sniffing after me. But now that I'm older, it's harder--plus, I'm pickier, I guess." He handed over one of the stuffed flatbreads.

"About what?" Jeremy asked, then took a bite.

Arthur thought for a moment. "I guess about...settling. Because when you've really fallen in love with someone and built a life with them, it just seems like too much at some point to start all over."

"But why? I think that'd be the fun part."

"You're right. And some of it is really fun. It's just that I'm going to be forty soon.

And in a few years, I'll be the same age my parents were when my sister Morgana got married.... I mean, some guys my age are already grandfathers, and here I have nothing."

"Why would you say that? You have a lot," Jeremy told him, though he knew the man had very little to his name.

"I've got my health, which is so important. But other than that, it doesn't seem like I have very much, to be honest. Now, you, you hunky rich kid, you have a lot."

Jeremy looked out toward the water. "Not really, Arthur. Sometimes I think it looks like I do, but I really don't--no parents, except Katharine, who drives me crazy, and not a whole lot of friends; and I do have Carlo, but sometimes I don't think he's 'the one.'"

"That's totally normal at your age. I'd be worried if you thought any differently."

"But I don't feel my age. never have. I've always felt like I was ninety or something. I mean, I feel so old and worn-out inside that I'm surprised sometimes when I look in the mirror and see a young guy." He popped the last bite of his sandwich into his mouth, then downed the rest of his soda.

"I remember that feeling, too, when I was in

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