Chasing Sunsets by Amy Aislin

Author:Amy Aislin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amy Aislin

CHAPTER SIX

Dane’s next ten days passed in a blur of morning runs, hockey camp, and chasing sunsets with Grant. His life, essentially, was Grant, hockey, more Grant.

It couldn’t get any better than that.

Chuck Yano had placed Dane with the seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds. Other than being excited that an actual NHL player was coaching their summer camp, not one of them had mentioned anything about the photos. Possibly because they were too young to have social media, or maybe because their parents had set up parental controls—or whatever it was called. Or hell, it was possible some of these kids didn’t have access to computers or cell phones.

Either way, it was nice to simply go into the arena in Burlington every day without having to mentally prepare himself.

Dane worked with two other coaches: a local high school student who played hockey recreationally and a sophomore who played for Glen Hill College.

Neither of his fellow coaches had brought up the photos either, and slowly, Dane was starting to believe Chuck when he’d said nobody was talking about him.

He’d successfully managed to avoid most public places in Glen Hill, so he had no idea what, if anything, was being said about him there, and he’d decided he didn’t care. He spent most of his time in Burlington anyway, and when he wasn’t there, he was with Grant or popping over to Celia’s to visit with his niece and nephew.

In the middle of his second week, Dane sat with the kids in the room the arena allowed them to use for lunch and snack breaks. Given that it was the lunch hour for the entire camp—the younger kids, Dane’s kids, and the older kids—it was loud and hectic and he could barely hear his own thoughts.

He loved every second of it.

The kids were diving into the boxed lunches the foundation provided as part of its programs, and Dane was nursing a coffee, a smoothie, and a sandwich as large as his face, also provided by the foundation for its staff. The kids around him were talking about the latest superhero movie when, from a couple of seats to his left, Ethan—the college sophomore—poked him in the shoulder.

“Casey and I are trying out a new restaurant tonight. Want to join us?” Casey was Ethan’s best friend and recently turned boyfriend. He was working as an archaeology intern on some kind of underwater wreck in Lake Champlain.

“Next time?” Dane said. “I’m having dinner tonight with my . . . um . . .”

What word would accurately describe what Grant was to him? Friend? Ex? The guy who owned his heart? Since Dane had arrived, he’d seen more of Grant than he had since last summer. And for reasons he couldn’t name, this summer was proving the hardest of all to keep his feelings to himself. Especially when Grant did things like hold his hand or snuggle into him or smile at him like Dane was his sun and his moon all rolled into one.

Feelings were there, on both sides.

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