The Past Comes Home by Silvia Violet

Author:Silvia Violet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: small town, artist, gay romance, rural, mm romance, second chance, friends to lovers, tech industry
Publisher: Silvia Violet

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Around ten that night, Pax had finally gotten the painting space cleaned up, showered the paint off himself, and curled up in bed with a cup of tea and his e-reader. He’d read maybe five pages when his phone rang.

Please be something I can ignore.

It was Brad.

Hoping he wasn’t drunk and needing a ride again, Pax answered. “Hello.”

“What are you doing?”

His low voice made the simplest phrases sound lascivious. “I’m in bed, reading. Aren’t you at the sports dinner?”

“No. It was just as boring as the ones in high school, so I left early. Do you want to come over here? I’d come to you, since you’re already in bed, but I don’t think I should drive.”

“You didn’t do shots again, did you?”

“No!”

Pax laughed.

“I just downed enough wine to drown out the boring speeches.”

“Understandable. How’d you get home?”

“You remember Stephanie Miller? She basically single-handedly helped our girls basketball team win the state championship.”

“Right. Did you know she’s a plumber now and she’s dating Roscoe?”

“The plumber part I knew, but not the other. Really?”

“Yeah, she married that shithead she was with in high school. He just sat around smoking and never did anything, so she finally left him, went to school, got certified as a plumber, and now she and Roscoe seem really happy.”

“That’s great. She sat next to me and was as bored as I was, so she took me home.”

“At least you had someone to talk to.”

“I’d have tried to leave even earlier if it weren’t for her. You want to come over and finish what we started in the woods?”

No way in hell would his cock let him say no, even if part of him really wanted a good night’s sleep. “I do.”

“Thank God! How fast can you be here?”

Pax laughed. “You’re so impatient.”

“And you’re not? You were begging for it earlier.”

Pax was sure his face was rapidly turning red. Thank goodness Brad couldn’t see him. “I’ll be there in fifteen minutes.”

“Make it ten.”

“If I get a speeding ticket, it will just take longer.”

Brad sighed. “Just hurry.”

Pax laughed as he ended the call.

***

Pax pulled into the lot at the Bridge Motel. His car was rather distinct, an aging blue Prius, not a hell of a lot of those in town, except ones driven by tourists. With luck, anyone passing by would think that’s exactly what it was—a tourist’s car. If anyone recognized it as his, he and Brad would be the talk of the town the next day. No one was going to believe he and Brad were just reminiscing about old times. Sooner or later everyone would know anyway, but he wanted Brad to be able to come out on his own terms.

He’d encouraged Cal and Beck, and he wasn’t sorry for that. But now that he thought about living through what they had, the reactions people would have, the way they’d bring up Rob and what he would’ve thought—and he had no doubt some people would—he wondered if he had the strength to deal with it.

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