Truth By His Hand by Casey Cameron

Author:Casey Cameron [Cameron, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-28T18:30:00+00:00

13

Now that Ellison and I were irrevocably, officially dating—explicitly acknowledged on both sides, complete with squishy feelings and squishier sex—it was like a massive portion of my brain had been freed up for other things. Not that I was entirely done worrying, of course. As long as I was alive, I’d be able to find something new to worry about, and if there turned out to be an afterlife, I’d probably spend it second-guessing.

Still, when I wasn’t second-guessing my life choices, I was managing to throw myself into my work with an inspired energy I hadn’t felt in a very long time—probably since the early days of the webcomic, in that exhilarating phase of creation where progress seems so fast because you’re laying down broad strokes so quickly. It’s always the detail work where things get tricky.

Maybe it was because the internet backlash against the comic had eased up to a manageable riot, maybe it was because the new direction was actually a better one, or maybe it was just because I was high on endorphins from regularly having the brains fucked right out of me, but working on Boundless Fate seemed easier these days. The pages seemed to flow more easily, dialogue was more natural, and more and more I was able to finish up work for the day in the early afternoon, leaving me free hours to luxuriate in my spare time.

“Luxuriate in my spare time,” of course, usually turned into “obsess endlessly about every aspect of my relationship with Ellison,” so I decided to start filling up my time with research instead. There was a quirky LGBT bookstore with an enormous section on kink that Mariah had been nagging me to check out for months, and Tea had mentioned wanting to go too, so that would be good for an afternoon, at least.

The bookstore was every bit as quirky and amazing as promised, and it took no time at all for me to immerse myself in the expansive shelves. As I crouched down to inspect some stuff on a lower shelf, Tea leaned over me and snickered.

“You, sir, have got a truly massive hickey.”

“Shit.” I tugged at my collar to rearrange my shirt on my shoulders. “I really thought it was covered.”

“Relax,” they said, patting me gently on the head. “I only noticed it because I can see right down your shirt at this angle. Very impressive, though. A-plus for effort on Ellison’s part.”

I groaned as I stood up, double-checking that my shirt was straight. “I’m 34 years old. Covering hickeys should not be a part of my life anymore.”

“You could tell him to stop.”

“I could, yes.” Technically, it was a very reasonable suggestion. The back of my neck prickled with a creeping flush. “But I kind of don’t want to.”

“Been there, done that. Don’t really want to do it again, but probably will anyway,” they said with a shrug. “Do you at least have a little time to heal up before he attacks you again?”

“Oh, about…”

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