Bound by Memories by Kaje Harper

Author:Kaje Harper [Harper, Kaje]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Darien gazed out at the sunny street, the afternoon of Christmas Eve, watching… something. Not waiting for the mail, of course. He’d only written to his dad a week ago. Yeah, he’d sent the letter airmail— one more thing I’ll pay Silas back for when our poltergeist-removal check cashes— but unless his father knew a teleporting sorcerer, there was no way Darien would get an answer back yet.

Down by the road, the mail truck chugged up the last of the hill, passed their box, and headed away without stopping.

Of course not.

“You could call him.” Silas’s hand on his shoulder made him jump.

“I’m not—” Except of course he was.

“What did you tell him in your letter?”

“Your address, phone number.”

“Our address.”

“Yeah.” The night after they’d released Joshua’s ghost, as they lay in bed trying to warm the last chills from their entwined feet, Silas had whispered, “You’re here to stay, right? You don’t want to leave?” Darien had asked, “What brought that on?” Silas had closed his eyes and rested his forehead against Darien’s neck. “Joshua felt so lonely…” Darien had stroked the dark, rough hair against his shoulder, aching a little for how deeply Silas felt things and how little he showed those feelings until they were here, alone and safe in the dark. “Not going anywhere,” he’d said. “I promise.”

Silas’s emphasis on Our address was a reminder of the connection they both felt. Not that I mentioned that to Dad in my stupid letter. Darien couldn’t seem to turn away from the window. “I expect he’ll write back eventually.”

Silas murmured, “Did you tell him you’d left school?”

“I told him I’d taken a break.” He still wasn’t sure what the future might hold, although going back to college and his classmates, suddenly looking fifteen years older, might be a problem. “I told him I was busy with some new kinds of studying.” He tried a joke. “I didn’t tell him my favorite subject was a detailed analysis of your dick and what it likes.”

“And yet, I highly endorse that line of investigation.” Silas moved closer, warm against Darien’s shoulder, chin in his hair.

Darien snorted. “Yep. You don’t mind expanding my experiments to your ass, either.”

“Another excellent field of study.” Silas stiffened behind him. “What’s that?”

A truck had chugged up the hill with a big Christmas tree on the load bed. Now, the driver pulled over to the curb at the foot of their property. Silas stepped away from Darien’s shoulder, as the cab door opened.

“That’s Stevenson,” Darien recognized. They hadn’t gone back to the lot, but the Guild reported Stevenson had been satisfied and paid the fee, and even insisted on the bonus. “I wonder what he wants.”

Stevenson tugged his cap down on his head and came up their front path.

“I guess we’ll find out.” Silas strode out toward the door, leaving Darien to follow him.

The doorbell had barely chimed when Silas opened the door. Darien spotted him subtly pushing extra power into the house wards and moved up at his shoulder, raising his own shields.

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