Timing [01] - Timing by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Fiction, Erotica, Contemporary, Romance, General, GLBT, m/m romance, dreamspinner press, mary calmes
ISBN: 9781615810819
Google: 12d_foFBVLgC
Amazon: 1615810811
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2010-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Timing

119

I WOKE up bro

r ken. Sl

S eeping on a chair in Rand’s

’ den had been a bad

idea, but it was where I had falle

l n asleep watchin

i g television. I felt all

of my twenty-eight

h years

r , and even though I was in pain, when I told that to R

and’s unc

n le Ty

T le

l r

e ,

r he laughe

h d at me.

“We’l

’ l talk

k aga

g in when you’re se

s ve

v nty

t -five,” he told me, pouring

coffee for both of us.

The look I shot him ma

m de him laugh, as did my

m comme

m nt that I

was in real pain.

“Dri

r nk the coffee, and I’l

’ l make you some

m breakfast. You can

come down to the barn

r with me and watc

t h Chase

s and Pete help delive

v r

r

a calf.

f You eve

v r seen a c

ow get born?

n ”

“No sir,” I shook my

m head, not sure

r if

f it

t was something I wanted

to see after all.

“Well, come

m on then, i

t a

in’t somethin’ y

ou’l

’ l wa

w nn

n a miss.”

Walking in my jeans and T-shirt

r beside the older man, liste

t ning to

him talk, shiveri

r ng in the early

l morning air and wishing the whole time that I hadn’t ditched my dress-shirt, I felt better. Just moving was uncurl

r ing my

m spine, and I

I found the fa

f ct tha

h t I was not expecte

t d to

speak comforting.

No one had come

m looki

k ng for me. Charlotte

t had fo

f rgone the

h

tra

r ditional sepa

p ra

r ti

t on between bride and groom the night before the wedding, and she and Ben had st

s ayed up

p la

l te ta

t lkin

i g. I went

t up onc

n e to

120

Mary Calmes

see if he had left but heard whispered voices through the door. I didn’t want to intrude.

Rand was gone. He wasn’t in his bedroom, the house, or anywhere I could find. Worst of all was that he obviously hadn’t needed me. It was sobering. Hot sweaty sex on a major appliance had not translated to Rand wanting me spooned around him in the night. I was hoping for the caveman scene, the one where he came and found me, threw me over his shoulder and carried me upstairs to his bed. That I had been seemingly forgotten was devastating. I wanted to run away instead of facing him, embarrassed about being so needy.

The iron grip on my bicep brought me from my thoughts.

“You all right there?”

“Yes sir.” I smiled at him.

As I followed the older man, I looked around at the ranch. The two-story house we had just come from really was beautiful, and even the stables and the bunkhouse where the six ranch hands ate and slept had a homey appeal. Veering left toward the barn, I was stopped instantly with a hand clamped down on my shoulder.

“Where are you goin’?” the older man asked me.

I tipped my head toward the wooden structure. “To the barn.”

“Nothin’ in there that’ll give birth. That’s where we keep the tractor and such.”

The man enjoyed teasing me, and so I fell back into step beside him, realizing as we walked that his hand was still on my shoulder.

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