This Is Our Love Song by Ryan Loveless

Author:Ryan Loveless [Loveless, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-774-7
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-07-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

WHEN PAEDER came, I almost told Declan to answer the door, but I was afraid Paeder would take him without speaking to me, so I went myself. Last time we stood this close, Paeder’s blond hair curled around his ears, but now he’d cut it precision short. He had some white in his blond stubble too. It painted the superhero lines of his jaw. His light blue eyes were still his most striking feature, not so much for their color but for the way he used them to pierce through a person.

“We need to talk.” I didn’t bother with pleasantries.

Neither did Paeder. He brushed past me. “Where’s Declan?”

“Paeder.” I grabbed his arm, and he turned around to look at me with hard eyes. “Did you hear me?”

“Where is he?”

“I’m here, Dad.” Declan stepped out from the nook where he’d secreted himself. Declan’s timid appearance seemed to throw Paeder off-kilter, which relieved me. I would hate to think that caution was Declan’s natural state around him.

Paeder rushed over and hugged him, then roughly held him back for examination. “Are you all right? What were you thinking? I told you to stay in the suite!” He was awfully concerned for someone who’d taken his sweet time getting here, but I bit my tongue. There would be plenty more for me to say before we were through.

“I wanted to see Keelin,” Declan said. “I wanted to talk to him.”

“Well, you talked. So let’s go.”

Declan glanced at me.

“Paeder,” I said.

“Are you going to get in the way of me taking my boy out of here?”

My temper flared. “Look at him!” Declan jumped, while Paeder, who was more accustomed to my shouting, glared. “Your son went out in the middle of the night in a city he doesn’t know to find me because he needed to talk, so you and I are damn well going to talk. I learned a lot last night, Paeder. Things I never dreamed I would hear about you. You’re lucky I didn’t punch you as soon as I saw you.”

“Oh, you’d like that, wouldn’t you?” He got in my face, cool and infuriating as ever.

I turned to the side. “No, I wouldn’t. What I would like is a civilized conversation. Or as close to one as we can manage.”

He seethed.

Stepping back, I said, “My assistant will be here in ten minutes. If we can cool our jets until then, Angie can take Declan out, and we can have a conversation.”

“I’m not sending Declan out with a stranger.”

“She’s a real nice girl. You’ll approve.” I waited until he gave a curt nod. “You want tea?”

He cracked a wry smile. Both of us were married to social niceties. Pause a brawl for a cuppa. “Sure.”

I snuck a glance at Declan, who looked at us like we were nuts. He really did resemble his father.

“I’ll make it. You can wait in there.” I pointed to the music study. Paeder went in without complaint, since being in there meant he wouldn’t have to talk to me, and I went to the kitchen.

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