Perfect Day by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: camping bees survivor guilt astronomy rockhound geology oregon anaphylaxis gay romance
Publisher: Josh Lanyon

The house on Startouch Drive felt warm and welcoming when we walked in. The sun was setting and the rooms were filled with amber light.

“Are you hungry?” Graham asked.

“Probably. It’s hard to tell with all these antihistamines bouncing around my system. I’m mostly tired.” Tired down to my DNA. But I didn’t need sleep. And I didn’t need food. I didn’t even need to hear again that Graham wanted to give us another chance. Well, I did, but Graham wasn’t much for words at the best of times. What I needed was Graham. Not even sex. Just his arms around me. Just the simple reassurance of a hug. I wanted him to hold me like he meant it.

I looked up and he was watching me in that steady, calm way. “Why don’t you jump into bed, and I’ll bring you something on a tray.”

“Nah. I’m tired but I’m too pumped up to sleep.”

“We don’t have to sleep.” Suddenly he was smiling, his face relaxed, looking younger than he’d looked in all the time I’d known him.

I found myself helplessly smiling back. When he looked at me like that, it was easy to believe that this was real, that it was going to work out.

I walked into the bedroom. The final crepuscular rays of sun lanced through the skylight and illuminated the bed. I pulled off my T-shirt, stepped out of my jeans. They’d cleaned me up in the emergency room, but I needed a shower. Maybe I was more tired than I’d realized though, because I thought to hell with it, crawled into bed and pulled up the covers. I stared up into the funnel of light, watching the dust motes dance in the air.

“You okay?” Graham asked from the doorway.

I sat up. “Yeah. Only I…”

“Me too.” He left the doorway and sat down on the bed, and all at once it was easy again, natural to put my arms around him, feel his arms around me. He needed a shower too — and a shave. I was smiling as our mouths brushed gently. The smiles evaporated in hungry fervor. Unsteady mouths exploring flushed skin, trembling eyelashes, before latching on once more in shivery, sweet kisses. The familiar heat coiled inside me, tingling all the way from the soles of my feet to the ends of my hair.

I could feel Graham’s heart pounding against my own, feel the unevenness of his breath and the tremor of his hands.

When we finally broke the kiss, his eyes glittered. “It’s okay,” I said. “It’ll be okay. It’s not as complicated as it seems.”

“Does it seem complicated to you? It seems simple to me.”

I reached out to brush the tears at the edge of his eyes. The wet glittered on my thumb tip. “Are you still scared?”

“No. Are you?”

“No.” Maybe a little. I had something to lose again — and I didn’t think I could survive losing it twice

He smiled his wry smile, the funny little grin I’d fallen in love with. “I’ll fix us something to eat, and then we can talk.

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