[ Knitting 1 ]The Winter Courtship Rituals of Fur-Bearing Critters by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay, Romance, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781613723074
Google: MHXBZAWQNmoC
Amazon: B006I19EQG
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2011-11-30T11:00:00+00:00

C hapter 5

Tangled

Ariadne said the moment was promising, but Crawford, well, he was cautious. Ben was not his first rodeo, and Stanley hadnt been either. Hed ridden a few times like the alpaca johnnies, and after

a few randy pokes, hed been spit at and had that horrible, disdainful sniff of rejection. Not a lot of men could put up with Crawfords raw way with words or his obsession with fiber. His business meant everything to him, or almost everything. He really, really wanted to find someone to share it with.

Hed rather give away half his stock as winter wear than give up his heart to someone who wasnt going to keep it warm and cozy in baby-bunny fur gloves.

Which was exactly what he made for Ben the third goround. He didnt know what that yarn he and Aiden had developed was going to be. A subtle midnight teal with a rust overdye, it was, as Aiden said when he saw it, very much Bens colors, and Aiden had helped Craw put up a cone of it special, spun with the bunny fur. (Ben had kept bringing them bags, just like Gertie had done, and they had some very lovely batches of Sweeps because of it.) Aiden hadnt said anything as he was helping Craw with the task, but he had once brushed the yarn with his index finger, a sort of wistful look on his face as he did so.

“Craw, if you were going to make a yarn for me, what colors would it be?” Craw thought about it. “Sky blue,” he said, matter-offact. “Sky blue, with little dots of rust and gold, like a field of spring flowers under the Easter sky.”

Aiden nodded his head then, as though that made sense. “Not as dark as this?” Craw shook his head.

“You like the dark, dont you? The complex? The older?”

And Craw had known then, known that what Ben had seen in a moment was true. “Yeah, Aiden. You need to find someone who likes that spring sky color, you think?” There. How was that for subtle?

Aiden blushed, so apparently not very. “I dont know if hes… uhm. You know. Like us. Like us and Ben.” Crawford didnt spend any time wondering how he could have been so blind. That was what happened when you surrounded yourself with your gruff, growly grizzly bear shell. All of the deer, rabbits, and even the occasional fox ran around behind your back, hoping not to piss you off. Aiden was too young for him. Even if Aiden had been Bens age, Aiden would have been too young for him, and Ben was not.

Crawford couldnt help him with the other thing, though. His way of courting might not work for another soul on the planet. “If he is, he is. If hes not, hes still your friend. And if hes not that, Ill fire him. Fucker.”

Aiden looked at him dryly. “Lifes very simple for you, aint it, Crawford?” Crawford shrugged. “Yup.” And then he went down to the south pasture to check in on Ben.

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