Who We Truly Are (Enhanced Book 2) by Victoria Sue

Author:Victoria Sue [Sue, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781635337723
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-07-13T18:30:00+00:00

FINN GAZED at Talon. Of everything Talon could have said, he hadn’t been expecting that.

“I knew where my dad kept the spare key, and it was still there. I had no idea what day or even what month it was. I was sitting on my mom’s bed when she woke up. I told her if she screamed, I would kill her before she made a sound.” Talon looked uncomfortable. “It was all bull, of course, but I was fighting for my freedom. We came to an agreement. I agreed to be homeschooled, and I used to spend every winter here with my gran and granddad.”

“I would have loved grandparents,” Finn said enviously. His granddad had died when Finn was barely old enough to remember him, and he never knew the others.

Talon nodded. “Yeah, my dad’s parents. Then my granddad had a stroke when I was seventeen, and my grandma didn’t drive down that winter after granddad died. I wanted to stay with her, but Mom shipped her off into sheltered living. She wouldn’t have needed it if I was there, but she had mild dementia, so that was that. I suffered through another year at my mom’s, and the morning I was eighteen, I got my own lawyer. Turned out this place had been left to me, and all the grandchildren got eighteen thousand dollars each. I moved in three days later. Continued with online schooling until I graduated. Got laboring jobs.”

“What about your brothers and sister?”

“I didn’t see them. They were at boarding school, and I stayed at Granddad’s every holiday. That was part of the deal. That I had no contact with them at all. The last year, Mom took them all skiing so they didn’t have to come home.”

Finn’s heart ached. How could people be so cruel? “How did you meet Gael?” He knew Talon had met Gael first, then Vance.

“I got a job on the docks here. I was strong, and you don’t ask questions about minimum wage or anything when you have a mark. The guy in charge liked me because I was dependable. Didn’t matter when he needed me or for how long; I’d be there. Anyway, my rep got Gael a job, except Gael had another two as well. I didn’t realize for a long time that Gael was homeless.”

“Homeless?” Finn said, astonished. “But he had three jobs. How is that even possible? I mean, the paperwork.”

“He was enhanced. People don’t bother asking us to fill out W-4s, you know.”

Finn quieted. The barb contained no sting, though.

“I was moving some crates and discovered where Gael was sleeping. It was freezing and Gael was wrapped in three old coats. Shaggy beard that made him look a good ten years older than he was. Before I could say anything, one of the foremen shouted for me, and I shoved the crates back quickly to hide Gael. I came back in ten minutes with some sandwiches, and we talked.

“He’d kept a place until Wyatt had gotten into Georgetown, and he’d given it up straight after.

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