Sunshine in the Dragon's Heart by Jaime Samms

Author:Jaime Samms [Samms, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-973-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-12-04T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

THE RIDE back to the cabin was a quiet one. Emile watched out the side of the truck and Sunny sank into the silence, grateful not to have to explain anything else. He was exhausted not from running through the forest, but from the heart-stopping fright of thinking he’d lost his dog, from the confusing tilt of the world when Emile swept him up like he was a child who weighed nothing, treated his cuts, comforted his breakdown yet again, and showed himself in a different, more illuminating light.

Sunny wanted to think he was at a place of acceptance about his parents. It had been a year, after all. But a year was a blink of time compared to the whole rest of his life.

“You are still upset.” Emile squeezed Sunny’s fingers. They were holding hands across the wide centre console, and the touch grounded him, kept him centred and out of the haze of sadness. He squeezed back.

“Thinking about my dead parents upsets me,” he admitted, belatedly thinking that probably sounded snippier than he’d meant it to.

“I can’t say I understand,” Emile admitted.

“Your parents are still alive?”

Emile said nothing for a long time. “Those who created me… didn’t raise me. So even though the one who raised me… died… yes.” He was quiet again for a moment, and Sunny risked a glance. He was staring out the windshield, a thoughtful look on his face. “I miss that bond. It was a loss.”

“But it wasn’t your whole world.”

“It was the one connection where I was allowed to be who—and what—I truly am. No one else understood, and so I left. I don’t miss the others, and I don’t miss that bond less here than I missed it at home.” He shrugged. “But it is gone. I am not. I honour it by continuing to fight to be myself.” He frowned. “If that makes any sense.”

Sunny nodded. “I grow my plants to honour Mom. I left the company to Daisy to honour Dad. She was more like him—more liked by him—than I ever was. It works out.”

“Then we move forward with this new life. Yes?”

“We?”

Emile grinned, and Sunny would have sworn, before he had to look back to the road, that he’d glimpsed pointed teeth, and a wicked, brilliant gleam in Emile’s sapphire eyes.

“We,” Emile whispered, leaning close enough to blow the word in a hot breath against Sunny’s neck, raising a flush over his skin. “Whatever comes.”

He had to concentrate to keep the Rover in a straight line, but the promise was already made, and his cock had heard. He didn’t want to ask what Emile meant by “whatever comes.” One thing at a time.

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