Dusk to Dawn (Lover's Journey #2) by Alina Popescu

Author:Alina Popescu [Popescu, Alina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary gay romance
Publisher: Alina Popescu
Published: 2017-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

Midnight

I THREW MY KEYS ON THE SMALL table in our hallway and dropped my laptop bag on the floor. It had been a long day. Accepting to work more in my final year at Poly had been a dumb idea. But I liked what I did, and I certainly learned a lot more than in school.

I took my jacket and shoes off, and went into the living room. Edi lifted his head from the pillows and smiled at me. I went to sit at the end of the couch, taking as little space as I could.

Edi pushed most of the pillows on the floor and only kept one. He slid it into my lap, then rested his head over it.

“How are you feeling?” I ran my fingers through his messy hair. It was a little greasy, but I didn’t care.

“Like I want to die,” he mumbled.

I chuckled and pulled on his hair. “Don’t say stupid shit. It’s just a cold.”

And it was nothing but a cold. Not even a flu. I sighed and relaxed on the couch, going back to running my hand through his long, dark strands.

Edi shouldn’t have been this sick. He was usually quite good at dealing with a common cold, or even a flu. He rarely spent more than one or two days in bed, but this time was different. I gritted my teeth and forced my hand to relax. I wanted to punch something, but he needed me to be comforting. Gentle.

His most recent and supposedly final breakup had really done a number on him. I’d been there to see it all. How he’d caught Robert cheating, how he’d fallen apart in my arms, sobbing like a child. As I’d suspected all along,

Robert couldn’t help himself. He was a selfish bastard. He’d tried to have it all. A real relationship with Edi, that he’d kept hidden from his world. And then a girl on the side, for extra fun and parental approval. It had all blown in his face, but the true victim was Edi.

In truth, Edi was as responsible for this. He never learned, not when it came to Robert. And I couldn’t blame him. I clung to Edi and never learned either. He was looking for love elsewhere, not here, where it was staring him in the face.

There was this song that had come out around the time Robert had come back, slithering his way into Edi’s life. Or maybe it had been released earlier and I only noticed it when Robert returned. Until then, the band, some local guys called Taxi, had never registered. Yet that sad fucking song about someone looking for love in the wrong place had slammed into me. It described my life so perfectly, it was ridiculous. I loved Edi the way he loved Robert. And the way Robert loved his privileged life where Edi didn’t fit in.

“Are you hungry?” I asked softly, not looking down at him.

He moaned something unintelligible and snuggled closer to me. I sighed and decided to let it be for a while longer.

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