Lee Shores (Black Flag Book 2) by Rachel Ford

Author:Rachel Ford [Ford, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

The Three Musketeers had taken their seats, on R’ia’s orders. She was pacing back and forth, trying, it seemed, to work through the revelations. Dre stood in the background, stony-faced and arms crossed.

“Gay?” she repeated again.

“Yes,” F’rok said patiently.

“You’re sure?”

“Very.”

She repeated her circuit, up the length of the table and back again. “It’s not…some kind of mistake?”

F’rok grinned. “No, Mother. It’s not a mistake. I’m old enough to know who I’m attracted to and not, aren’t I?”

She considered his words for a moment, then nodded. “Yes. I just…I don’t understand.”

“There’s nothing to understand, Mother,” Frank offered. “It’s just how F’rok was made.”

“And you, F’er? Are you gay too? Is that why you don’t want to be married?”

“No, mom, I’m not gay. I don’t even have anything against being married. I just don’t want to be married to a stranger.”

She took a seat across from them, and turned to her daughter. “F’er doesn’t want to be married, and you wanted to be married so badly you went behind our backs to do it.” She shook her head. “I don’t understand.”

“I love Ger, Mother. I can’t imagine my life without him. It’s not about being married – it’s about being married to him.”

“But he’s a Britya, darling. A Britya.”

F’riya’s brow creased in pain at her mother’s words. “He’s a good man. The best of men.” She looked R’ia square in the eyes. “And he’s the father of the child I will have – of any children I will have.”

The older woman sighed. “Which makes him an Inkaya now.” Dre scoffed behind her, but she ignored him. “And you, F’rok: you said you were going to be married?”

“Yes.” The young man nodded.

“There’s no such thing as a marriage between men,” his father snorted. “That’s Union garbage: more human corruption. That man, whoever he is, will never be an Inkaya.”

“You’re right, there, Father,” F’rok agreed. “He won’t be an Inkaya. I will be a Kridar.”

Surprise crossed the faces of every Kudarian in the room. Only Maggie and I seemed at a loss to understand the significance of that name.

“Wait,” F’riya said, understanding lighting her features, “your friend, your study buddy J’kar…that’s who it is?”

F’rok nodded, and she grinned. “I cannot believe I didn’t figure this out earlier.”

Frank laughed. “School projects, huh?”

His younger brother flushed, but their conversation was brought back on topic by F’vir, of all people. “You mean J’kar ark Kridar…the banker’s son?”

“Heir to House Kridar?” his father put in. It might have been my imagination, but there seemed a little less disgust in his tone now.

“Yes, and yes.”

Frank whistled, a mischievous grin lighting his eyes. “Shit. You got game, little brother.” F’rok repaid the comment with an elbow jab to the arm, but flushed too.

“It’ll never stand,” Dre decided. “His parents won’t countenance such a thing.”

“It will,” F’rok said simply. “He told them about us this past weekend. They gave him their blessing. They want to meet me.”

F’riya put an arm on her brother’s shoulder. “My gods, F’rok. That’s why you were such a bundle of nerves.

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