Someday by Stella Starling

Author:Stella Starling
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Kindle Unlimited
Published: 2019-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

MACE LEANED his forehead against the cold tile in his shower, letting the icy water flow over him. Hoping that if he stayed there long enough, it would wash away enough of his guilt that he’d be able to sleep. Sluice off the regrets that threatened to choke him.

Fucking Christ. He’d all but fucking attacked Danny.

There had been many disappointments in Mace’s life, but for the most part, they’d been ones that had been thrust upon him, not fuck-ups of his own making. Situations that, no matter how difficult they’d felt at the time, at least he’d been able to hold his head up about. He hadn’t always been able to control a lot of things in his environment, but his own actions—choosing to do the right thing—that had always been something he could feel good about. Even when Trevor had let him take the fall for the robbery, Mace hadn’t said a word. Hadn’t been willing to betray the loyalty he’d felt toward his foster brother, regardless of whether the other man had still deserved that loyalty or not.

In retrospect, maybe the way things had gone down with Trevor and Kelsie shouldn’t have surprised him. There was a certain inherent desperation to growing up the way they all had, an every-man-for-himself attitude that came with the tendency to justify taking whatever you could, whenever you could get away with it, regardless of who else it might hurt. Mace’s foster brother had always been one to look for shortcuts in life, and Kelsie had constantly pushed Mace to go along with Trevor’s schemes, to find a faster way for them to get out of the harsh life that was all they’d ever known, to look for the easiest path, no matter who was hurt along the way.

It had never sat well with Mace. He’d never been a fan of rushing through things or felt good about taking what he hadn’t earned. He didn’t mind hard work. It was satisfying to reap the reward of something that had been done right, and it was one of the reasons he’d grown to love working with the plants that he tended. There were no shortcuts in nature, but if you gave them what they needed, nurtured and took care of them the right way, the outcome was inevitable. They always gave you back more than you put in, rewarding the care put into them with an abundant, bountiful beauty that never failed to awe him.

Just like Danny.

The man got lost in the things he cared about, absorbing the best parts of the world around him and then mixing them together in brand new ways, blending them into new creations that spilled out of him in a bright fountain of words and laughter and art and beauty that took Mace’s breath away.

It was just one of the things that had drawn Mace to him, but not the only one. He also loved the way Danny threw himself into life and embraced the things that were important to him.

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