Rebel by Rhys Ford

Author:Rhys Ford [Ford, Rhys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay Romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-384-8
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

“WATCH THE hands! Watch the hands!” Ivo hissed at Gus, pulling his fingers out of the way when Gus plopped a couple of bricks into place on the grid. “I’ve got to work on someone tonight, and they’ve got loose skin.”

“They weren’t even close to you, asshole.” Gus shot his brother a disgusted look. “And like you’re the only one who’s going to be feeling someone up. Bear and I do a hell of a lot more loose skin than you do, ’cause you only like them young and tight.”

“That would sound so very wrong if someone didn’t know you.” Luke chuckled, rolling the sand-filled wheelbarrow over to where Gus and Ivo were laying the last of the pavers. Dumping the sand onto the tarp, Luke angled the basket around. “Ivo, quit messing with the edging and grab the shovel while I get another load of sand. We just have to fill in the spaces and tamp them down.”

“Like you know what you’re talking about,” their younger brother scoffed. “We’re doing this after watching a video.”

“I have The Book! Obey The Book!” Looming over them from the upper deck connected to the house, Bear held up a thick manual, its edges battered from years of wear. “And yes, we watched a video. Now shovel the damned sand, Ivo. Get this done and we can grill up those steaks.”

Bear’d spotted it in a used bookstore when they’d first gotten into the house, and it’d become their go-to source for everything from plumbing to leveling a doorframe. At some point, pages thirty-two and thirty-three got stuck together, but they weren’t looking to ever install another hot water heater. They’d found a how-to site online recently, which went a long way in cutting back on some of the mistakes they made, but The Book was still their house Bible.

It was just a pity the damned book didn’t have any advice on how to deal with an ex-something you still wanted in your life but weren’t sure you could handle it.

Late weekend afternoons on the winding streets of their neighborhood meant BBQs, a ball game played down by the school, and in the case of the brothers’ sometimes sagging house, a few hours spent propping the old girl up so she sat straight. With most of her drunken lean taken care of, Bear turned his eye toward other things, like finally tackling the sharp drop in the lawn near the fence they shared with a lesbian couple and their five snakes, including a rosy boa who’d taken a liking to one of Ivo’s metal garden sculptures when it escaped one morning.

The fruit trees they’d planted together hadn’t taken as well as the avocado pit Ivo shoved toothpicks into and nurtured on the kitchen sink. Luke finally convinced their youngest brother to either toss it or plant it after its plastic cup was knocked over one too many times. They’d thought the house and its overly shaded backyard was the wrong climate, wrong soil—wrong everything—for an avocado tree, but in typical Ivo fashion, the damned thing grabbed hold and refused to let go.

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