Paint It Black by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-842-3
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT day felt so normal, except for getting up and checking on the fish. Blake hadn’t had time to set the tank up again, so he’d left it in Marcia’s room, with her permission. The thing was, Blake wasn’t really certain those fish were his.

One of the things he and Mackey had picked up in rehab was the idea of caring for something other than yourself. Mackey had tried plants. Blake had gone with fish.

But they’d both had pretty busy lives at the beginning, and Mackey confided in him once that the only reason the ficuses survived was that Astrid, their housekeeper, kept moving them to the sunshine whenever Mackey got too busy.

At first, Blake had worried. He’d thought, “Hey, Mackey’s cheating at this one thing, so he might not make it!” Turned out, Mackey’s one thing to keep alive was the band itself, and it probably wouldn’t have worked with anyone else on the planet. But then, Mackey was special.

Blake had known he was not.

He had to keep those fuckin’ fish alive.

He’d worked on it. He’d read books, watched videos, and thought, “Hey! It’s working! They seem to be getting bigger… but don’t they keep changing number?”

It wasn’t until he got back from their first tour that he realized his tank had gotten bigger and all the fish had changed except for this one big scumsucker on the bottom that nobody paid any attention to until he just lunged out of the fuckin’ castle for shits and giggles. Funny, he’d been worried about Mackey not being able to keep a ficus alive, and apparently Astrid had been the one keeping the fish and not Blake.

Except when Blake told Kell about it—feeling damned sad, because, hey, he couldn’t even keep fuckin’ fish alive—Kell sheepishly admitted that he’d been the one replacing the fish. So Blake had figured that if nothing else, he could keep his friendship with Kell alive, even after Kell and Briony had hooked up and their relationship should have all but disappeared.

That made having the fish, even if they were Astrid’s fish and Kell’s fish, sort of a badge of honor. Hey! Blake had symbolic fish for real relationships! He’d won at rehab—at least in the fish department.

And for the last few years, he felt like he’d been taking care of his actual fish himself. He knew that when he was not on tour, he lost a few every year, and he was the one who replaced them before Astrid or Kell ever got the chance.

So leaving the fish back at the main house felt odd, but meeting up with the guys in the morning felt perfectly normal.

“Me and the twins’ll move your tank into your house tomorrow morning,” Kell said, panting. They lived in a giant gated community, with paths that wound between houses and along canyons. On the one hand, they felt like they were running through a park, but they were all very aware of the walls and the security that kept out paparazzi.

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