Through The Closet Door by Rick R. Reed

Author:Rick R. Reed [Reed, Rick R.]
Language: nld
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Jake Gamble lived less than half a mile from them, in a little white clapboard cottage, with a fieldstone path, prairie grasses, and wildflowers. The house looks like Jake, in a way, simple, attractive, and bearing all the marks of someone for whom his own space is important. Gregory wonders if he's a Cancer; Jake should be, at least if the line about their homes being important to them holds true. Gregory has watched him from a distance several times, shirtless and sweating, as he works on the garden, lifting pots, pulling weeds. He had been there when Gregory and Rosemary had moved in two years ago. Gregory tries to remember the first time he noticed Jake, 29

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and can't. It seems the man has always been nearby. Would things be any different if the idyllic little cottage were inhabited by an old woman? Or a family?

It is toward Jake's house that Gregory now makes his way, shutting out all thought, concentrating on the sounds of night surrounding him: the wind rustling the leaves, cicadas, and crickets. The air is warm, but there's a chill in the background that foretells the approach of autumn. The water with its clean, oddly mossy smell and the wind give him comfort. It's as though nature regards him unemotionally and without judgment. Gregory has never known Jake well, speaking only in passing or when he's run into him at the small pebble beach people who lived on the lake shared or at the little grocery story up the road where all the lake's residents end up at one time or another. Yet, he has always felt a connection between them. There is an irresistible pull between the two men, something Gregory's conscious mind weakly tries to deny, but deep down, he cannot refuse to acknowledge. It is as if Jake is always waiting for him, somewhere just out of sight.

The creak of Jake's porch swing interrupts Gregory's reverie. He tenses and stops walking, unsure if he wants to be observed. He has watched Jake so many times without the other man knowing. This time, he isn't so sure he wants to be a silent observer, someone hanging around in the shadows, struggling to thwart the desire that rises up within him whenever he sees Jake, a sensation both queasy and delicious.

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An orange cigarette tip glows in the darkness. Normally, Gregory hates smoking; the smell of it, the way it makes people reek of something nasty. But with Jake, there's something manly about the glow of the cigarette as he brings it to his mouth and draws in, something decidedly sexual as he expels twin plumes of smoke from his nostrils. Gregory allows himself to imagine being tainted by that smell, the rough stink of it as Jake draws him near, his mouth on Gregory's. He shakes his head. Stop it. Barely breathing, Gregory watches from the shadows, wondering if he should say something, a simple, "hello" to announce his presence.

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