Fall through Spring by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-760-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

Lost Spring

“SO HELP me, Clay, I will beat the shit out of you if you don’t get your sorry whiny ass out of my room!” Dane snarled. He heard the words from far away, like an animal screaming in pain. In his heart, he was sobbing, “Why won’t you love me!” but his mouth? It was a rabid shrew trying to draw blood.

“Please do,” Carpenter said shortly. “Please do beat the shit out of me. Take a swing. I’m looking forward to it. We can both swing away, and then I’ll sit on you, tie your wrists, and make you bathe. It’ll be exercise. I mean, I’ve been making it to the games and practices and shit, but you haven’t left your room in a week. Cardio, man, it’ll be great! That’ll burn the fat off!”

“You’re not fat!” Dane sobbed. Oh, he wasn’t. He wasn’t. He was magnificent. He was massive and furry and warm. He’d slept in Dane’s bed for the past couple of… days? Was it a week? Was it two? Just so he’d have someone. Someone to help Mason get him up in the morning. Someone to wheedle him into taking his pills. Someone to get him to do his homework, or to talk to his professors about why he wasn’t going in. He should have been flunking out—he knew it. But Mason had gotten on the phone and woven Mason magic about mental illness. Thanks to Dane’s big brother, that illusive hobgoblin—hope—was still being used as a flog to get Dane the fuck out of bed and to his shrink’s appointment and to the occasional class.

And Carpenter, who was his… companion? Was that what they were? The guy he’d known barely six months was now lodged solidly in Dane’s life, taking no shit and giving no quarter and generally not giving up on Dane when Dane would have crawled into a corner long ago and willed himself to die.

“I’m not fat?” Clay was saying now, the bitterness like a slap to the face. “Oh, you think I’m not fat? That’s fucking rich. Someone finally finds me attractive and he’s actively working to be crazy. Thanks a fucking lot for that compliment, Dane Hayes. You want to convince me that I’m not fat, work for me, you fucking asshole! Get out of fucking bed, shower, get dressed, and let’s go see your shrink so he knows for real that your meds aren’t working!”

“How’s he supposed to know that?” Dane practically wept. “What are we supposed to do to convince him?”

“Take them!” Clay practically laughed. “Man, this is the seventh day in a row, and look at you. If you’re this bad after taking your meds for a week, something is wrong!”

Dane sucked in a breath. “I’ve taken them for a week?” he said, feeling wobbly with hope. “Really?”

“Yes,” Clay said, his voice suspiciously rough. “Yes, Dane. We’ve been doing this for a week. And it hasn’t been a picnic, but today’s our payoff day. Today’s the day

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