The Preacher's Son by Lisa Henry & J.A. Rock

Author:Lisa Henry & J.A. Rock [Henry, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.A. Rock

Back at the camp, guilt hit Nate like he knew it would. Sitting around the fire with the kids, toasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories, it wasn’t the thought of his own sin that bit back at him. It was his happiness. Everything had felt so right with Jason. Okay, his nerves had almost overcome him a few times, but it had been worth it. Not just because he’d come—Nate was no stranger to jerking off when he absolutely couldn’t stand the building pressure any longer—but everything. The thought of letting a woman do that to him turned his stomach. But with a man, with Jason, it was different. It had felt perfectly natural. It had felt like all the pieces that hadn’t really fit before were finally falling into place.

And now guilt showered him.

Not for what he’d done with Jason, but because he’d told all these kids that they shouldn’t look for happiness in the same place.

He gazed across the fire at Tyler, who was animatedly telling a ghost story. He’d started with the flashlight under his chin but was now swinging it wildly, sending the beam across tree trunks and campers’ faces, and into the night sky.

“And then William slowly untied the ribbon,” Tyler said. He paused, glancing around to make sure he had his audience’s attention. “And Annie’s head fell off!”

“That was unbelievably lame,” Steven said.

“Shut up, douchebag.”

“Hey,” Nate said, but the two boys were already in a shoving war, laughing wildly while a couple of the other campers whooped. “Enough.”

Nate could barely hear his own voice. Tyler goosed Steven under the arms, then slid his hands down Steven’s sides as Steven cringed and squirmed, nearly overturning his lawnchair. Then Tyler swiped a hand between Steven’s legs and gripped briefly before letting go. Nate looked to see if anyone else had noticed, but nobody reacted. Emily finally stood and said, “Hey, hey. Let’s settle down, okay?”

Tyler scooted his chair closer to Steven’s and slung an arm around Steven’s neck. He grinned up at Emily. “Okay.”

“Get off me.” Steven shrugged out from under Tyler’s arm. But he was grinning too.

Nate didn’t know what to do. He couldn’t reprimand them, since he wasn’t even sure he’d seen what he thought he’d seen. Could have been the firelight playing tricks on him. And if he said something and the boys denied it, and no one else had seen it…

Besides, Nate wasn’t going to make an issue of it in front of the whole camp. He’d talk to Steven and Tyler privately. And he’d talk to the counselors too—see if they’d noticed any inappropriate interactions between Steven and Tyler over the last few days.

He stared over the crackling flames into the darkness of the woods. Maybe he needed to take a walk, clear his head. He had that fear again—the fear that Steven and Tyler were deliberately challenging him. That, in looking the other way, he was allowing them to tarnish their souls, ruining their chance to know God’s love in eternity.

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