Wireless by Witt L.A

Author:Witt, L.A. [Witt, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: LGBT, Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2013-07-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Time passed. How much, I didn’t know. Somehow, we’d separated, and we’d cleaned ourselves up, and now we lay together under a thin blanket. His arm was around my shoulders. I rested my head on his chest. The warmth bordered on too hot, but I made no effort to pull away. Just lying like this was too good to change.

Our legs were tangled beneath the blanket. I ran my foot up and down the inside of his calf, and he ran his hand up and down my upper arm.

“Feeling all right?” he asked after a while.

I looked up at him. “Yeah. I feel pretty damned good.”

He smiled. “Good.”

He held me a little tighter, and I rested my head on his chest again.

“So how did you get involved in all of this?” I asked. “Going wireless?”

“A friend. We spent a few weeks sort of dancing around the subject, me being curious and him wondering if I was, and then he brought me to one of the lounges in the Lower Northern Quadrant.”

“And the rest is history?”

Aiden laughed. “Well, sort of. I visited a few times, then got scared and backed off for a while. But…” He went silent for a long moment. “I guess once I’d experienced it, I just couldn’t go back to the way things were before.”

“I know the feeling,” I murmured.

He kissed the top of my head. “It’s an adjustment, I know. Makes life hell sometimes. I just hope it’s worth it for you. Like it’s been for me.”

I watched myself draw lazy circles on his chest with my fingertips. “I’ve questioned it, to be honest, but now that I’m back here…”

“I still feel like I should have given you more warning,” he said quietly. “Not that there’s ever enough to prepare someone. It’s…it’s always like this for people. Maybe it’s even a little traumatic for some.”

“I think I’ll manage.” I laced my fingers between his. “I’m glad you brought me here.”

He kissed my forehead again. “So am I.”

“Why the lounges, though?” I asked. “Why not just meet people in areas without as much surveillance? All this seems so dangerous. Like with all the bikes outside? Seems like it would attract attention.”

Aiden smiled and slid his hand over my leg. “There are clusters of bikes all over this city. Patrols don’t give a damn unless they actually know the owners are engaged in illicit activities, and most of the time, they aren’t.”

“They aren’t? I thought it was illegal just to be over here.”

He shrugged. “It is, but where do you think most of the New City’s homeless went after the Governor did his big ‘cleanup’ two years ago?”

I swallowed. “They’re all over here.”

Aiden nodded. “Out of sight, out of mind. And a lot of them have clustered together. Hence…big groups of people and bikes.”

“They can afford bikes? And gas?”

“A bike and a tank of gas is a hell of a lot cheaper than an apartment,” he said.

“True. Okay, but my other question. Why the lounges?”

Aiden’s eyes lost focus.

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