Heartwood by Emily Carrington
Author:Emily Carrington [Carrington, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
ISBN: 9781623000417
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2012-10-14T22:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twelve
It was almost impossible to keep his mouth shut about what he and Mike had done two days ago in the woods. Being quiet about how much he was attracted to Mike had been difficult on Tuesday and Wednesday, but now that Mike had agreed to come to dinner, Aidan could barely sit still, let alone be quiet. Fortunately his parents believed in seating a guest among the family so that guest could meet as many new faces as possible. That kept Aidan from taking Mike’s hand or nudging the other man’s foot with his.
The moment Mike walked into the house, Aidan’s mother had welcomed him like a long-lost son. Did she suspect? For the most part Aidan had given up asking that question. If he hadn’t, it would have driven him mad years ago. When his mother had visited him at school, she seemed to treat any guy he hung around with as a potential boyfriend. Well, until Erik. Then she’d treated all the others as unequivocally straight.
Not that he and Mike were going out. Mike needed help, and one jacking-off session wouldn’t make things magically better.
“It’s going to be great at the end of the school year,” Abby went on. She’d been talking for the last five minutes. “We’re going to have a short story contest and a poetry contest, and maybe even a novel contest if Ms. Donald has time. Can you believe it? I’ve been waiting my whole life for seventh grade!”
Aidan smiled. Middle school had mostly been a nightmare for him; it was good to hear his sister embracing it.
“What are you going to write about?” Egan’s wife, Bridgett, asked. She and Egan had left their daughters with a sitter so they could join the dinner more easily. Accordingly the dining room table had been expanded so there was enough room for ten people.
Barely.
“I think the short story’s going to be a romance. I’ve never written one of those before.”
“What do you know about romance?” Pat demanded.
“Patrick,” his grandmother said. “Be polite.”
“There’s a budding romance right here,” Abby said. “Aid’ and Mike, sittin’ in a tree. K-I-S-S—”
“Abigail Kathleen!” all of the Kelly adults, including Egan, chorused.
Aidan swallowed his surprised laughter and did his best to keep any and all expression from his face. He wondered how Mike fared. And how had Abby come to suspect anything?
There’s nothing to suspect. Stop putting the bloody cart before the horse, he thought, using one of Pat’s favorite expletives. Mike has been hurt. Don’t forget that. And he’s still your aide, no matter how the two of you might deal with the asshole who’s hurt him. Stop ignoring that.
“But Pat told me they’re—”
“Enough,” Seamus Kelly said. “It’s done. Eat and be quiet.”
That explained how she knew, although Aidan hadn’t thought he’d given anything away in his younger brother’s presence. Obviously he’d been wrong.
“And what about your teachers, Patrick?” Seamus asked, his voice sharp.
The conversation was thus expertly maneuvered into other lanes until dessert, and then Egan rose. “Come on, Aid’.
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