Found at the Library by Christi Snow

Author:Christi Snow [Snow, Christi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: artist, contemporary gay romance, Gay, Writer, Contemporary, Library, Romance, male/male, Holiday
ISBN: 9781517629144
Amazon: 1517629144
Goodreads: 26852449
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-10-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Creation can be a fickle beast.

Some days everything works out perfectly and some days you’re just filling up the landfill.

-Observations from Tommy

Mac typed and surreptitiously watched Tommy sketch out a new piece. This was the third day Mac had spent working at Tommy’s studio, and he’d thought it had been working well for both of them, but now he wondered. For some reason, Tommy seemed really tense tonight, and Mac had no idea why.

From what he’d seen, there hadn’t been any obvious problems in the store today. Mac had worked on his laptop in the back corner of the studio area. It gave him enough separation from the store that he could maintain his concentration, but he got a sense of what happened in Tommy’s day. No one had been more surprised than him at how effortlessly they fell into one another’s lives. Maybe it had been too easy and that’s why Tommy seemed tense tonight. Had Mac worn out his welcome?

Typecast had closed over an hour ago, and Tommy had been almost mute ever since. He usually tried to have dinner with his brother, Ryder, but tonight, he’d made no move to leave. Mac never went with him, but from what he understood, things were going better for the young man.

Tommy stared off into space, lost in thought. Mac approached him, but Tommy didn’t seem to even notice. He gently laid his hand on Tommy’s shoulder, but Tommy jumped from that light touch.

“Sorry,” Tommy mumbled with a wary glance at Mac.

“S’okay. What’s wrong?”

Tommy frowned and gazed down blindly at the book he was working on with a shake of his head. “Nothing. Sorry, I know I’m not very good company.”

“You’re fine.” He rubbed across Tommy’s shoulders and the knots of tension there. “I don’t mind quiet unless there’s something bothering you. Am I spending too much time here?” Mac had worried about invading Tommy’s space that first day, but he’d seemed genuinely pleased to have Mac here. But maybe that had changed.

“No.” Tommy swung around, grabbed Mac by the belt loops, and tugged. “I’ve loved having you here. You’re the one good thing about this year.” Tommy frowned at the lit Christmas tree in the corner of the darkened shop. “It’s the holidays. They’re always stressful anyway, but this year...” Tommy’s throat convulsed. “It’s just hard.”

Why hadn’t Mac seen it before? Of course these holidays would be tough for him. His mom had died this year and his brother would be spending the holidays inside a mental institution. As far as family went, Tommy was all alone. But Mac was here now.

Mac couldn’t change any of those things, but maybe he could help release some of Tommy’s stress. He ran his hand up Tommy’s chest. “I’m sorry,” Mac told him. “I wish I could change some of that. But you have me now, and I can help with some of this stress you have going on, I think.” He lifted a flirty eyebrow and licked his lips seductively.

Tommy’s expression changed from desolate to interested in the matter of a heartbeat.

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