Chaser, #1 by Rick R. Reed

Author:Rick R. Reed [Reed, Rick R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NineStar Press, LGBTQIA+, Insta-love, family illness, separation, perceived cheating, physical fitness, narcissistic character, betrayal
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Dawn’s gray light filtered into Kevin’s bedroom like time-lapse photography. One second, he was lying on his back in near pitch darkness and then, quickly, the room began to lighten, at first making hulking shapes of the furniture around him and then, as the light continued to brighten, defining the shapes.

Kevin had lain awake most of the night, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. He had tossed and turned, trying to find that elusive position that would allow him not only rest but, more importantly, an escape from the anguish he felt.

He went over possible reasons for Caden’s distance and lack of enthusiasm at seeing him. All he could come up with was either he had met someone else back home or the sight of Kevin was simply different from what Caden had expected. Sure, Kevin looked a lot better than he had before Caden left, but maybe Caden had nursed an idea in his head, an image while he was gone that was not really Kevin. And maybe being together made him realize that his idea of Kevin and the reality of him did not mesh.

Who knew? Caden himself wasn’t talking; that much was for sure.

With a pain in his gut, Kevin realized that they had built very little before Caden’s mom got sick—they had had, after all, only a couple of dates. How well did they really know each other?

Yet he answered himself back with the fact that, even while he was gone, Caden had been in touch almost every day. They had shared a lot in their short and long communications, getting to know one another. Sometimes you don’t have to be physically with a person to get to know him.

This led him back once again to why Caden was so distant. So strange. And it was thinking like this that had kept him awake most of the night.

Now, his back hurt from lying in bed, and even though the digital alarm clock on his nightstand told him it was only a little after six on a Sunday morning, he rose from bed, feeling his eyes burn and a bone-deep fatigue that made his movements slow. “What a great way to start the day—feeling exhausted and depressed,” he said to himself.

He wandered into the kitchen, thinking caffeine might help his mood, give his clouded brain a little more clarity so he could decide what he should do about Caden. He was certainly not ready to write him off as a lost cause, but he also couldn’t take much more of the tension and lack of feeling he had experienced last night.

Kevin filled the Mr. Coffee reservoir with water, ground some beans, located a filter, and started the coffee maker to brewing. He looked out the back window, and the weather matched his mood. Gray, low-hanging clouds pressed in, and he could see that those same clouds were spitting out a mix of freezing rain and the season’s first snow.

He thought of how weather like

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