Simon, Sex, and the Solstice Stone by Kay Berrisford

Author:Kay Berrisford [Berrisford, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Simon was right about Dinh. The housemate knew a friend of a friend who swore she’d been fabricating documents since she was twelve. Aubrey and Simon popped around to her digs first thing and then tried again at the library.

Presenting the forged card to Rogers, Simon offered a slight smile.

The librarian looked it over, smoothing the strands of ginger hair across his balding pate. Then he pointed out that while the picture on the ID was Aubrey’s, as was the signature on the back, the name written in the small print was Sophie Garrard.

Well, Aubrey might look bizarrely cute in a dress.

Simon laughed at his joke, punch-drunk on tiredness and sex. They’d fucked till well past midnight, and then he’d lain on the bed floating, listening to tales of Aubrey’s adventures as one of Cromwell’s pikemen.

He remained chuckling a few minutes later when the security guards arrived to escort them both from the university grounds for violation of rules. He managed to quietly instruct Aubrey that it would be a bad idea to resist.

A small crowd gathered to stare at them as they were marched past the student union, the glass walls of the sports center, then the square brick careers advisory booth. He recognized several faces among the onlookers. One of his old lecturers, a specialist in medieval studies, peeped at him from beneath a large orange muffler, her beetle-black eyes narrowed in disapproval. A fellow postgraduate student, Lorraine, clutched her books to her chest and gaped.

As they were herded by the history block, he recognized Pete’s BMW parked in front. The man himself sat behind the steering wheel, his expression concealed beneath an unseasonably enormous pair of shades.

Being swept from the grounds like a criminal, with a guard on either side, ought to have been the most shaming moment of Simon’s hitherto spotless life. Instead he felt distant from his body, as if he were a bird flying overhead, gazing down on himself and singing with ludicrous joy. When Aubrey brushed the back of his hand, Simon bristled with pleasure. When the time traveler raised that scarred eyebrow and quirked a hint of a wolfish grin, he tugged a smile from Simon’s lips too. Simon hadn’t a clue why Pete was on campus, but he was glad the man saw them.

Look, you bastard. I’m happy in my own skin. And it’s all down to the gorgeous man who enjoys fucking me every night. Who’s boring now, eh?

But later, back home, he slithered from his two-day high.

Aubrey sat cross-legged on the end of the bed, talking about a few nonsexual ceremonies the Gildskipe performed at the Stones so Simon could make notes. Somehow the time traveler strayed onto a vaguely related account of a billy goat who’d eaten his little sister’s rag doll.

He had dried her tears by telling the girl that her toy, Mabel, had been an offering to the Ancestors. Mabel had ascended to their company forever. Aubrey’s voice cracked several times at the end of the tale, sorrow clouding his eyes.

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