The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon [Lanyon, Josh]
Language: nld
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks

79

Nick let Perry go, stepping back. He looked away so he didn’t have to see the disappointment on the kid’s face.

Perry sucked in a sharp breath and looked up. He didn’t speak. The silence took on a strained quality.

“Look,” Nick said briskly. “By the time I leave here, this will all be sorted out. There’s only so many possibilities, you know?”

Perry had turned away and was facing the rain-speckled window. His shoulders were rigid. He said roughly, “Really? When are you leaving?”

“I’ve got a few loose ends to tie up. It’ll be a couple of weeks.” Nick was surprised to hear himself say this after telling Roscoe and the guys that there was nothing to keep him from pulling up stakes immediately.

But he couldn’t walk out and leave Foster in this jam. No fucking way was he leaving him until this thing was past crisis point.

Perry sighed. His shoulders relaxed, and he turned to face Nick. “Well, personally, I think if it’s going to get sorted out, we’re the ones who’ll have to do it. I was thinking maybe I would try the historical society today. See if I could find some more information on the history of the house.”

This aggressive, hands-on approach took Nick aback and didn’t quite jibe with his image of Perry Foster as a damsel in distress. Still, he was relieved beyond measure that the kid was taking his withdrawal calmly. He had been on guard against an emotional outburst.

Foster’s calm redirect to the problem at hand was unexpected -- and welcome.

“What about getting hold of a copy of the blueprints?” Nick asked.

“There won’t be blueprints for the original structure,” Perry said. “Before 1900, builders didn’t draw up elaborate plans like they do now. Not with the kind of specs architects provide these days. There might be some kind of plans from the renovations done when Alston bought the place in the twenties.”

“Would Mrs. Mac have them?”

“Maybe. But do we want her to know we’re looking that closely into the history of the house?”

Once again, Nick was nonplussed by this unexpected shrewdness on Foster’s part.

“What are our other options?”

Foster considered. “We could try the building inspector’s office at Town Hall. They must have filed for permits when they did the last bunch of renovations, when the house was gutted for apartments. That was probably done in the last twenty years or so. I’m not sure when Mrs. Mac took over.”

“Does she own the place or does she manage it for someone else?”

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