Glacier Gold by Crystel Greene

Author:Crystel Greene [Greene, Crystel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64080-640-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

“YOU BOOKED a solo tour down the glacier with him,” Carl says for the umpteenth time. We’re lying in our beds in the nightly neon shine of Fitsch. I’m trying to get some rest before the big day tomorrow, but my friends don’t seem to be ready to stop discussing my business anytime soon.

“Because you just don’t know how to give up,” Jay says.

“Why should I?”

Carl scoffs.

“Because he’s been ignoring you for five days straight?”

“And even ran from you one time?” Jay supplies, forever helpful. He seems to like to bring up this moment a lot. I suspect it’s because he’s secretly still not over Antje. “If you ask me, he might yet cancel the whole thing once he hears what you did,” he adds smugly.

“Well, he already knows. He was there.”

“He was?” Carl asks, lifting his head off his pillow. “And what did he say?”

“Yeah, tell us,” Jay says a little too expectantly.

I don’t really want to, but then they’re suspecting the worst anyway.

“He said there was a storm coming in and that we shouldn’t go.”

“Oookay,” Jay says.

“And you still think this is a good idea,” Carl says.

“That storm isn’t due till in two days’ time….”

“You know what we mean.”

“Listen, if you’re having second thoughts about lending me all this money, I understand,” I say. “You obviously don’t have to do this for me. I’ll find another way—”

“It’s not about the money,” Carl interrupts.

They don’t know about anything that happened between Andi and me during this vacation. Because against all the odds, I’ve managed to keep silent. It’s still starting to irk me that they don’t seem to be able to imagine that Andi might feel anything for me but irritation.

“Okay, I can’t tell you why, but I happen to know that he likes me. At least from the neck down.”

“Oh, Justin, don’t you get it?” Carl exclaims. “We just don’t want to have to pick up the pieces when you come home after a whole day of him giving you the cold shoulder!”

With a soft groan of contentment, Jay wiggles himself yet more snugly under his comforter. He’s holding his phone in his hand. He has kept checking Jaymer’s new follower count all day long since yesterday, and he’s probably doing it yet again.

“Yeah, because maybe he will, you know,” he says. “Give you the cold shoulder. You know.”

“Maybe he won’t, and then you’ll look real dumb!” I cry.

“You haven’t done that much freeriding, have you,” Carl observes, biting into the sandwich he always keeps on his nightstand for nighttime snacking.

I’ve been thinking about that too.

“I can do it! All you need for a tour like this is stamina and the will to do it, and I’ve got that!”

They sigh in unison, and Carl says, “You sure do.”

Well, I never asked my friends for their blessing. I did ask them to help me balance my bank account, and that they already did.

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