To Live Again by L. A. Witt

Author:L. A. Witt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: single father;second chance;older lover
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2016-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

On Sunday morning, the guys met me at the storage unit. Sailo looked a little tired, but he was there right on time with everyone else.

With six people, the job was much faster and easier than I expected. Despite the constant wise-cracking about some of us being way too old for this, we had my storage unit emptied and the U-Haul loaded in no time. Moving boxes from the truck up to my third-floor apartment? Easy.

The tricky part was getting the larger things up the stairs to my apartment. If a piece of furniture wasn’t too heavy, then it was big and cumbersome and didn’t want to make the turn in the stairwell.

“See, Greg?” Ethan grumbled as four of us maneuvered a dresser around the turn. “I told you a freight elevator is a necessity for an apartment.”

“It has a freight elevator.” I adjusted my grip on the bottom of the dresser. “It just happens to be broken right now.”

“Of course it is.”

“He did this on purpose,” Dale muttered from beside me. “Any excuse to watch big strong men hump furniture up the stairs.”

“Don’t hump my dresser, Dale. You don’t know where it’s been.”

Ethan snorted. Dale rolled his eyes. Sailo, who’d been quietly helping Ethan steer the top part of the dresser around the corner, just chuckled.

“Are you four taking a break or something?” Adam’s voice echoed up the stairwell. “All I hear is jawing and no moving.”

“You got any ideas?” Ethan opened and closed his hands gingerly. “Because I’m not sure anything short of a chainsaw’s gonna get this around the corner.”

Adam looked over the dresser and scanned the stairwell. “I think if you tilt it up a bit taller, it’ll turn better.”

“We tried that.” I gestured at the ceiling. “It’s a bit low.”

“Nah. There’s room. Can’t put it all the way upright, but you should have enough clearance to get it around the corner. Might be easier to balance with a few more hands.” He paused. “Dale, why don’t you help them on that end, and Greg and I will handle it from down here.”

Dale saluted playfully. “Yes, sir.”

Chuckling, Adam muttered something and swatted his husband on the ass just before Dale squeezed past the dresser to join Sailo and Ethan.

“Ready?” I said.

“Ready,” Ethan replied.

Right then, footsteps behind us turned my head.

Rhett set a box down on the landing. “You guys need a hand?”

“Sure,” I said. “Join in the fun.”

Between all of us, we managed to get the dresser tilted enough to clear the corner without scraping the low-hanging ceiling. Finally, the damned thing was around the turn so we could get it up the next flight.

“Awesome,” Sailo said as we continued up the stairs. “Only two more turns to go.”

All of us groaned.

Fortunately, now that we’d figured out how to steer the bulky bastard around the turns, the rest of the climb was smooth sailing. Not easy—why had I bought such a heavy fucking dresser?—but smoother. Once it was on the third floor, we guided it

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