Hard Rock Mountain_MM Straight to Gay First Time Romance by Jerry Cole

Author:Jerry Cole [Cole, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-08-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

As the wiser part of Daniel had warned him would happen, more than half the whiskey bottle was soon gone, and the two men, well beyond tipsy though not truly blind drunk, were leaning on each other, laughing hysterically at some anecdote Asher was struggling to finish.

"So then the guy…He's still insisting he can pay, right?" Asher wheezed between laughing. "And he just keeps coming back with more goats! Until there's just a herd of them out in front of the building, and every time the machine inside goes off they all fall over like a ton of bowling pins. Like thirty of these tiny goats just lying all over the place and this crazy yokel standing in the middle and demanding we take them!"

Daniel was laughing so hard he could barely breathe, clinging to Asher to keep himself upright, tears of mirth in his eyes. "God," he said when he could speak again, gulping for air. "I had no idea the life of a mob thug was actually a sitcom."

"Well, I'm sugar coating a lot, obviously," Asher was still chuckling, leaning back against the bed as he tried to recover. "But honestly, that's what it feels like some days. People will do the most absurd bullshit when they think they're beyond the law. Not even illegal shit, just weird shit. I could get three degrees in psychology and I probably still wouldn't understand it. People are a fuckin' mystery."

"Agreed," Daniel chuckled. "Just the people in my office are so baffling sometimes. Like Lynda. I don't think I've ever actually learned her last name because she's so insistent on everyone calling her Lynda. With a Y! And what's with all the cacti? She fusses over them like they’re priceless orchids or something. I thought the whole point of succulents is that you don't have to take care of them?"

"You're one to talk," Asher laughed. "You're the most baffling person I ever met. Do you have any idea how confusing you are? At first I thought all that stuck up stiffness was because you thought you were too good for everyone. Then it turns out it's actually the opposite, and you're just screamingly insecure and can't open up about it—"

"Hey," Daniel frowned, in too good a mood to be properly insulted but not wanting to let it go either. Asher grinned and held up his hands apologetically.

"You look like this soft, delicate thing," Asher went on, "but out here you've been tougher than pretty much anyone I've ever met. You're brave as hell. You pulled that stick out of me with barely a complaint, kept my dumb ass alive all this time. And then you tell me you're scared of the dark. People are confusing but you—you're something special."

For some reason, that made Daniel smile. Asher thought he was special. He was slumped against the other man's side, grinning up at him. The whiskey felt warm inside him, and he was still flush with relief at their survival. Outside a

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