Survivor Stories by J.P. Barnaby

Author:J.P. Barnaby [Barnaby, J.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-597-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

[Spencer] Please stay. We can go somewhere together.

[Aaron] I can’t. I just need to be alone for a while.

[Spencer] You were drinking. Please don’t drive. Come back.

[Aaron] I’m fine. I’ll be careful.

[Spencer] Please be safe. I love you.

[Aaron] k

Spencer hated that answer—“k.” It didn’t say anything except that he’d gotten the text. It didn’t say he would be careful on the way home because Aaron had only gotten his license last year, they’d been drinking, and he was upset. It didn’t say he loved Spencer too, or that he wasn’t angry for his dad walking in on them. Damn it. After sliding the phone back into his pocket, Spencer looked up at his father. The room still smelled of sex and sweat. He could almost feel Aaron’s skin against his.

“You know how fragile he is. Who the hell else would have been making out on the couch in here? Is some junkie going to stop to jack off on the couch while he’s ripping off the stereo?” Spencer raged rapidly at his father, giving only the barest control to his signs as they jerked in the air. Embarrassment still heated his face. Goddamn it, he was twenty-one years old. Was a little privacy too much to ask?

“It did not sound like someone making out. It sounded like someone in pain.”

Spencer’s heart clenched because he hadn’t known Aaron was in trouble. The expressions on his sweet face didn’t betray his distress, his pain. Fate was a bitch, seriously. Spencer asked for someone to see him, someone to love him, but he didn’t realize what he’d have to give up in return. No, that was selfish. But Jesus, he really wanted to spend the afternoon getting off on the couch. Why did it have to be so fucking hard?

“I really hope I get that job so I can get out of here,” Spencer signed, pushing past his father, who tried to grab his arm, but Spencer pulled away and headed for the stairs. He didn’t want to be rational right then. Instead he wanted to go up to his room, sulk, and think about a world where he and Aaron were normal. His father had other plans and followed Spencer.

“What job?”

“There is a company called Voyager Tech that wants to buy Spaaron. They offered me a job. Seventy thousand a year,” Spencer signed, confused when his father merely shook his head.

“A company offered you seventy a year? Do they know you don’t even have a degree? What about Aaron? He helped write that software.”

“I do have a degree. And yes, they know that it is only a two-year degree. They did not care. They want me to be a technical lead on the project involving our software and then stay on to do other projects. They offered the job to Aaron too, but we have not talked about it yet.”

“Aaron is never going to take it.”

“I know that, but I think he will sell the software.”

“Where is this job?”

“Downtown.”

“Are you going to move up there?”

“I would have to.

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