Wild and Precious by CJane Elliott

Author:CJane Elliott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2014-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

CODY SPRAWLED on the couch, playing guitar. Brent’s apartment was still. He looked at the clock. 11:30 p.m. Giving the strings a sudden smash, he threw down the guitar and fumed. Brent had said he wasn’t going to his work party for long. That was four hours ago.

“Fuck this.” Cody grabbed his cell and pushed a speed dial number.

Bette picked up on the second ring. “What’s up, baby?”

“I didn’t wake you?” Cody lay down, picking at a thread on the sofa cushion.

“Naw, I’m reading, Aurora’s asleep, what else is new? But why are you calling me instead of gettin’ it on with your man?”

“Because my ‘man’ is at his company Christmas party and about three hours late getting home.”

“Ohhhhh. Someone’s jealous.”

“I guess.” Cody shifted to his side and stared at the mess of newspapers on the coffee table. “I had an interesting visitor tonight.”

“Who?”

“Brent’s brother Darrell came over. He wasn’t reaching Brent on his cell, so he decided to pop in.”

“Jeez. What’d you tell him? He still doesn’t know about you guys, does he?”

“No, we’ve never even met. I made something up about being a friend from the magazine, that I came over to work on Brent’s computer. Whatever. He didn’t care.”

“So, what else? You sound upset, baby.”

Cody took in a breath and let it out slowly. “Yeah. He said he needed to reach Brent about the tux for the wedding, and to remind him that their parents are coming in on Thursday for the rehearsal dinner.”

Bette made a surprised noise. “Wedding? Who? Darrell?”

“Apparently. Yeah, apparently, Brent’s brother is getting married on New Year’s Day, Brent is the best man, and Brent’s parents are coming to town, and guess who knew nothing about any of this? Brent’s boyfriend who he’s been sleeping with for the past four months.”

Cody’s throat got tight. He took another deep breath, surprised at the amount of emotion welling up.

“Oh, baby, that sucks. Brent is such a love, but you knew going in this wasn’t going to be easy.”

“Did I?” Cody didn’t remember knowing anything of the sort. It had all been fun and games at the beginning: initiating the straight boy into the world of gay sex.

“Well, you can’t say we didn’t warn you once we saw you were getting involved.”

“True. You guys tried to tell me in Cape Charles.”

“Right. I don’t know, hon, maybe he’s just a bi-curious straight boy. Maybe it doesn’t go deep enough for him to overturn his life.” She hastened to add, “I don’t mean you. I know he cares about you. I mean him being gay or bi or whatever he is.”

Cody heaved a sigh. “Now I remember why I stay away from straight boys. But I think Brent’s gay. He practically said so.”

“What did he say?”

“He told me everything finally makes sense about his sexuality.”

“Wow. Well, okay, that sounds promising.”

“Yeah. But coming out is hard. I don’t have a problem with him doing it on his own terms. It’s just—wait, he’s home. Thanks, sweetie, love you. I’ll call you tomorrow.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.