Xylophone by K.Z. Snow

Author:K.Z. Snow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2012-12-03T17:33:26+00:00

Chapter Eleven

WHY the hell can’t I leave well enough alone? Dare kept shooting the question at himself as he made the short drive northeast toward Wind Lake. Specifically, toward the address he’d found in the phone book.

He’d gone directly home from the Birches, where Junior and Ernie gladly finished the pitcher of beer he’d brought inside. He’d brushed his teeth and showered and thrown on some clean clothes.

I’m trying to ring the bell. That’s why I’m doing this.

Okay, so he’d been right. Jonah was queer. Which meant he’d always been queer. Which meant he hadn’t instantaneously developed a gay-on because he’d seen some dude slithering around with his ass in the air—although the hormonally-charged atmosphere of the Sugar Bowl might have contributed to Jonah’s surge of awakened hunger. Dare figured that mostly, though, their acquaintance had stirred the psycho-emotional silt Clayton Wallace had deposited on Jonah’s libido. He’d finally begun to see more clearly what he wanted and realize it wasn’t the worst thing in the world.

Jonah was twenty-four. He was on the mend from a trauma. Sooner than later, his true nature was bound to emerge. Dare just happened to be the man he felt closest to when the emergence was underway. Therefore, Dare had become the target of Jonah’s wobbly, foal-legged lust.

Or maybe Jonah wasn’t really gay but was more confused than ever. What was that phenomenon called? Transference? So maybe Dare was like a mallard being followed around by a hatchling chicken that thinks the duck is its mother.

Or something like that.

Dare did a split-second eye roll at his theorizing.

“Admit it. You don’t know what the fuck to think,” he muttered as he glanced at the Garmin.

The immediate question remained: Why couldn’t he just let it go, let them both get on with their lives? They’d muddled through up to now. This indefinable relationship they’d gotten into was only complicating matters that sure as hell didn’t need further complications.

Nevertheless, Dare turned where the GPS instructed him to turn, the road where Jonah lived. He must’ve bought or rented one of the older cottages that lined the southern and western shores of the lake and, once upon a time, served as summer homes. Dare was willing to bet anything GG lived in one of those places too.

A song rolled through his mind, clear as the lines on the map. “And oh, the glorious feeling, just to know somehow you are near!”

The feeling wasn’t exactly glorious, but Dare had to admit it fell somewhere between a visit to the dentist and a date with a Calvin Klein underwear model.

Heart pattering, he eased into the driveway of a cozy-looking place, a faux-log-construction ranch, on a pretty, tree-shaded lot. It was across the road from the lake, not on the lake. Aside from that and the usual diminutive size of the properties around here, it looked inviting.

The front door opened. There stood Jonah, watching him. Dare didn’t have one of those won’t-wake-the-baby electric vehicles. He’d announced his arrival simply by pulling into the driveway.

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