The Hacker's Heart: The Three Rings: A Queer Mafia Romance Book 2 by Sav Uong

Author:Sav Uong [Uong, Sav]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Uong Books LLC
Published: 2024-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

Gatekeeping

January had come and gone, and Thomas couldn’t remember time flying by so fast. His therapy sessions were still going on; his therapist had said multiple times now that she was impressed by how he had been handling the changes in his life. She didn’t seem all that concerned when Thomas mentioned his stammer seemed to get worse when he was talking about “normal teenage things.” He really didn’t think he should have a hard time pushing out words over something as simple as being asked by a cheerleader if he and Danny were a couple now or where he was going to college. Those were normal things to be asked and yet he had stammered so badly over both of them he wasn’t even sure if he gave an answer.

It’s not as if I don’t know the fucking answer to them, he thought, still frustrated with how hard it had been to talk. He had made Danny sit down before he had to run off to training after school on Monday to check in to see if they were dating or dating. Danny had made a point the entire day to find Thomas between classes to steal a quick kiss or to hold his hand on the way to another class. Danny had almost seemed hurt that Thomas was asking for the clarification at all, but Thomas pointed out that he had had to ask if Friday was a date, so Danny should have seen it coming. So they were a couple. Thomas knew that.

As for college, despite his guidance counselor’s insistence that he had missed all the deadlines for everything, he had received several packets from the local university that he had been accepted with a full scholarship to the Computer Science program he had applied for on the day after Christmas. He still wasn’t sure if that had been O’Hare’s or Seong’s doing, or if it was some built in clause of the Three Rings’ treaty, but he followed Issac’s advice and just said “thank you.” After all the scholarship would not only cover his tuition but also the required year in the dorms for freshmen. That was a huge relief and it should have been something easy to say.

Yet he stammered. His therapist could only reassure him that the stammer was caused by stress. As he learned to better cope with the stress of being asked questions about himself, the stammer would, too.

“What are you scowling at so intently?”

Thomas blinked and grimaced at the article he had been staring at before he glanced up at Seong. Immediately, he felt a calm wash over him as the other man set down his bag on the table and hooked his foot onto a nearby chair to pull it closer to Thomas’s. It was the opposite of how Danny made him feel. Danny always seemed to make his heart race, where one look at Seong made everything in him relax. Even the frustration with the stutter and the article seemed to fade now that Seong was there.

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