The Island by Lisa Henry

Author:Lisa Henry [Henry, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Gay, Contemporary, LGBT Contemporary, erotic romance, BDSM, General Fiction
ISBN: 9781611188332
Amazon: B006VX67IO
Barnesnoble: B006VX67IO
Goodreads: 13409189
Publisher: Loose Id
Published: 2012-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Hanson had brought him into the room and forced him down onto the floor by applying pressure to the back of his neck. He’d squeezed as well, even though Lee had been compliant, and grinned when Lee winced.

“Good puppy. Stay.”

It felt like hours had passed, but time always lost its meaning in this room. A minute could be drawn out to last a lifetime in this place. An hour could vanish in the blink of an eye as consciousness fled. There was no time here. There was only sensation.

Lee’s body ached from kneeling, from his neck all the way down his spine. The muscles in his thighs had already cramped once, and he’d swayed from side to side to try and alleviate the pain and soothe the muscles. The cuffs dug into his wrists and scraped against the wounds from last time.

And none of it mattered.

My soul is unbreakable.

Whatever happened here, they wouldn’t get that. Not Vornis, not Hanson, and none of the other men. If this was the end, and Lee knew that the stakes had never been higher, he was free to delve into his memories now. Free to take what he needed from them, and screw it if it hurt.

He studied the small grate in the floor and wondered where it led.

Regrets, Lee, count ’em up.

In eighth grade, he’d cheated on a math test. Which wouldn’t have been a regret at all, except he’d gotten caught. Two weeks of detention, and it had gone on his permanent record. They always said that, didn’t they? This will go on your permanent record. Somehow Lee had expected it to come back and bite him on the ass when he was applying for colleges: Oh, now, we can’t possibly have a cheater here, but maybe that permanent record thing was just bullshit, because nothing had ever come of it.

In eighth grade, you cheated. They can’t take that from you.

Troy Faulkner was a regret, a real one. A tenth grade regret. They’d been friends. They’d hung out in each other’s houses all one summer. It started because Troy’s folks had a pool and it had been a hot summer, but it turned out they had a lot in common. Troy was one of the weird kids. He liked music nobody else had ever heard of, he read books in the school cafeteria at lunch, and he made short films and dressed in thrift-shop clothes by choice. He was weird but cool, and nobody gave him too much shit.

He was also gay, but Lee had never done anything about it. All summer long, they’d bullshitted about all the girls they thought were hot and which of them they’d like to fuck, and they both knew they were lying. It was plain as anything in their eyes, but they both kept up the pretense. They were fifteen-year-old boys in a small town, each one of them terrified to make the first move in case the other one called him out as a faggot.

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