Diane Adams - The Making of a Man 05 - If the Stars Fall by Diane Adams

Author:Diane Adams [Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Some Days are Golden

Jared watched Clark grill steaks for their dinner, thick T-bones over charcoal like Jared had taught him. The smell filled the afternoon air of the Johnson's backyard with an enticing aroma that made Jared's stomach growl. Clark threw him an amused glance but Jared felt too happy and relaxed to care. The unseasonably warm day had allowed them to move all their activities outside. Alex helped the twins drag the picnic table out of the garage back to its place in the center of the backyard and he sat on one of the long benches with Annie, Clark and Stevie's oldest daughter, close beside him while he talked to Stevie.

"It's good to have him back." Clark glanced towards Alex before turning his attention back to his steaks. "It is good," Jared agreed.

Everyone had missed Alex over the last few months

and was happy to see him. Jared wondered if skipping the trauma and rejoining Alex after the fact would have been easier. Crossing his arms over his chest and one ankle over the other as he leaned back against the house, Jared admitted to himself not seeing Alex at all would be torture he didn't want to experience. Separation had plagued the beginning of their relationship and as the kids liked to say, "been there, done that, got the T-shirt". All other considerations aside, Alex needed him, which always trumped everything.

"Married, huh?" Clark cocked a brow with an accompanying smirk.

Jared and Clark had debated Jared's view of gay marriage more than once, but Jared returned Clark's knowing look with an easy smile, bending to pick up Jens when the squealing three-year-old slammed into Jared's legs while running from Xander.

"SAFE!" Jens announced, glaring at Xander.

He wrapped his arms around Jared's neck hanging on for dear life.

Xander skidded to a stop and glared, eyes narrowed. "You little monkey, just wait, Uncle J won't be here forever."

"What's going on?" Clark looked between his youngest and eldest sons. Xander looked frustrated and Jens more than a little guilty. "Jens?"

"Me the baby, only three," Jens declared and hid his face in Jared's neck. Jared balanced Jens on his hip, cradling his head in one hand, fingers carding through the boy's soft curls.

"I'm the baby." Looking at Xander, Clark corrected Jen's grammar absently.

"He took my CDs again, all of them." Xander sounded exasperated but an amused smile twitched the corner of his lips.

"Music." Jens muffled voice against his neck forced Jared to bite back a smile.

"Jens, we talked about this, you can't have your brother's CDs. Give them back," Clark admonished him, turning the steaks.

"Besides, you have your own music," Xander added. "You don't need mine.

"Music," Jens protested again, sitting up to glower at Xander. "Bitty spider is stupid. Music."

Xander looked at a loss for words and Jared fought another smile when Clark turned back to the steaks, a very suspicious tremor in his broad shoulders.

"Well, he's not wrong," Clark finally said, having apparently conquered his amusement enough to confront his sons. "Are there any of your CDs your mom will approve of for him?" he asked the oldest.

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