Forget Me Not: Being(s) in Love Book Ten by R. Cooper

Author:R. Cooper [Cooper, R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

RAY WOULD HAVE waited outside the entrance to the Rainbow Wings Community Resource Center, but as if knowing that, Cal took hold of the end of his necktie and went in, leaving Ray no choice but to follow. Once inside, Benny turned to look at them, then said, “Gross,” just as he had when he’d come to pick them up half an hour before.

He didn’t actually seem disgusted. He had darted a glance to Cal first and smiled before he’d said it.

“Two days!” Cal had exclaimed at the time. “Two days instead of two years! Quite the learning curve!”

Ray would have asked how Benny, a human, albeit a magic-using one, had guessed that he and Cal had had sex, but he’d decided not to waste the energy.

He also didn’t think about the need to save energy. It alarmed him, and then it reminded him of the night before, and when that happened, he would look at Cal, and Cal, confusingly, would smile up at him. Actually, Cal had been smiling all morning, which might have been what clued Benny in. The only time Cal had stopped smiling was when Ray had emerged from the bedroom, showered and dressed in a shirt and tie.

Cal also had not asked after Ray’s headache, just handed him a dishtowel full of ice which Ray had held to the back of his neck while drinking coffee flavored with Fall Spice Oat Milk Creamer. He’d watched Cal eat frosted toaster pastry after frosted toaster pastry, realized he wasn’t hungry, refused to be alarmed by that too, and forced himself to eat one of the electric blue so-called pastries that Cal was eating. He thought about calling his mother, his sister, but knew they would be alarmed and he had no news to calm them.

Cal, periodically, in the middle of reading news stories out loud to Ray, would pick up one of Ray’s hands and kiss it. Ray wondered if this was what it was like all the time, to have someone, to be kept, and if he had noticed it before, or been too busy to.

No one from the station called him. Lex had sent another message, asking if Ray had any information about who had attacked him. Lex might have asked in text instead of in person so that Ray couldn’t sniff out any motives for wondering besides concern, though Ray told himself that Lex usually had a full schedule.

But he didn’t answer the message.

Cal released Ray’s tie when someone called out a greeting, their voice rising in surprise or worry when they looked over and saw Ray. Then Cal grabbed Ray’s tie again and twirled it around his wrist before looking up.

“You seem… concerned.” It wasn’t exactly a question.

Benny looked between them, then went to the reception-slash-information desk and started to ask something about the legal aid office, which must have been difficult with the receptionist flirting shamelessly with him.

Ray glanced around the room, which had framed art and photographs along the walls,

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