Into Deep Waters by Harper Kaje

Author:Harper, Kaje [Harper, Kaje]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: M/M Romance, Gay Romance, Goodreads M/M Romance
Publisher: Goodreads M/M Romance group
Published: 2013-06-04T22:00:00+00:00

“Planning to.”

Jacob worked his free hand out from under the blankets and raised it a little. It took more effort than he expected. Daniel clasped it between both of his and lowered their grip into the screening bedding. For a long moment they said nothing, just looked at each other. Jacob tried to memorize this moment through his drug-addled fog. Tried to lock in the sight of Daniel’s eyes and the way his over-long hair fell across his forehead, the shape of his jaw and the feel of his strong hands. It was no doubt the morphine that made him mumble. “I need to look at you. I’m scared if something... I’m scared I’ll forget.”

Daniel took a breath and then said, “It’s probably safer with you anyway.”

“What is?”

He disengaged their hands carefully. Jacob wanted to protest. What could be worth losing the last moment of touch they might have? But Daniel reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a small snapshot. “You have your wallet?”

“In the box under the bed. What is that?”

Daniel reached under the bed and pulled out Jacob’s wallet, the leather stained and stiff with salt water. He tipped his hand toward Jacob, the picture half-hidden in his palm. It was a photo of the two of them, standing together in a doorway on the Gageway. In the picture Daniel was inside the room looking out, handsome and smiling, one lock of hair straying onto his forehead. In front of Daniel, Jacob himself stood grinning awkwardly, squinting a little in the light, one hand reaching back over his shoulder to fist in Daniel’s shirtfront.

“God. Where did you get that?”

“Remember that newspaper reporter that was shipping with us, Nelson? I don’t know when he took it but apparently he kept his camera in a waterproof bag and he’s the kind of guy that didn’t lose it despite sinking and sharks and all. He came up to me yesterday and gave me that.”

“God,” Jacob repeated. It was a great picture of Daniel. It was just perfect, even if Jacob himself looked like a moron. “Do you have a copy?”

“Nope.” Daniel wrapped a stiff wrinkled dollar bill around the picture and tucked it carefully into Jacob’s billfold. “There. Now you won’t forget me when you get Stateside.”

“That wasn’t what I meant.”

“I know.” Daniel bent and stowed the wallet away.

At the front of the room a corpsman rang a bell.

Daniel stood abruptly, as if jerked upward by strings. Jacob reached toward him, regardless of the screaming stab it sent through his back.

Daniel gripped his hand, briefly but hard enough to turn his knuckles white. Then he let go.

“So long, Jacob. Have a good trip home, you lucky bastard.”

Around the room, other men were getting up, shaking hands, touching shoulders, even faces. Nothing unusual about the two of them. Jacob wanted to say something, something special, something that would carry both of them through the months to come. God, maybe even years. But his throat had closed up completely. He blinked hard, staring fixedly at Daniel’s face.

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