Avalon's Last Knight by Jackson C. Garton

Author:Jackson C. Garton [Garton, Jackson C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBT Romance Fiction
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Published: 2020-04-27T18:30:00+00:00

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The next morning, I wake to Mordy tiptoeing across the floor, doing his best to not agitate Arthur and Gwen, who are still asleep. The couch is too small for two people to share, so I fell asleep on the floor next to Gwen. When she rolls over, her arm moves from my chest and flops onto the wooden surface beneath our bodies, and I get up to join Mordy outside.

A thick fog fell last night and settled on the lake and fields surrounding the house. When I take a seat next to Mordy, I can see ghostly fingers still playing with the normally steady water.

“You okay?” I ask. Mordy stretches his arms and cracks his neck. “Morgan still sleeping like a baby?”

“Oh yeah,” he replies. “If I let her, she’ll sleep for the next sixteen hours.”

“Damn,” I reply. “That’s crazy.”

Mordy nods. “Yes, visions like that take a lot out of her. Her body usually requires a few days to recuperate. The whole process is a nightmare.”

“You’re so good with her.” I nudge him with my shoulder. “You’re such a good brother.”

Mordy doesn’t respond to my comment, his eyes following the movement of the lake.

“Arthur is really cool. So is Gwen. They’re both like you. Honest and genuinely themselves.”

We haven’t spoken about Arthur since our drive to Monticello, and I had been worried that Mordy wouldn’t like him, given his attraction to me. “Yeah,” I say. “They are amazing people.”

“You know, when Morgan first told me about Gwen’s get-together, I didn’t want to go. I had a feeling that we were walking into some redneck barn party, and I was prepared to throw down if needed.” I laugh, and his eyes dart from the lake to me. “But then I met you, and realized I was being a judgmental jerk. Look, I’m not going to sit here and lie to you and say that my feelings for you have changed, Lance.”

“I’m sorry,” I reply, taking his hand. “If things were—”

“Don’t you dare say ‘different’, because you know as well as I do,” he says, “things have never been different. That man sleeping in there has been, and will continue to be, the center of your universe. We can’t change the course of things, not this course.”

“Why do I get the feeling we’ve had this conversation before?”

“Fuck, Lance, have you met you? You’ve probably had this exact conversation with hundreds of men over the course of a thousand years. I swear, Arthur had better treat you right.” Mordy lets go of my hand and touches the side of my cheek. “You think you’re not good enough for him or some shit, and that’s absolutely, completely false.” He kisses my jaw, his lips lingering. “It would never work between the both of us anyway, because I don’t do long-term relationships. Or at least that’s what I’m going to tell myself for the next month—whatever I need to tell myself to make it through this shit.”

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