Levi by Bailey Bradford

Author:Bailey Bradford [Bradford, Bailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Gay MM/ Wereshifter/ Paranormal
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2012-02-17T16:16:49+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Whether it was a need to belong, or simply being able to actually talk freely about his past, Lyndon couldn’t say, but he found himself opening up. The words almost gushed from him, as if they’d been held back so long the pressure of keeping them inside had grown too great to be restricted any longer.

Lyndon began speaking, his gaze darting from Cheryl to Henry then to Levi and back again. “My father is, it turns out, a very wealthy man. Also very territorial, and when I did meet him, it wasn’t what you’d call a friendly confrontation. He attacked me when I was a scared kid whose mom had just died. And he drove me from the only familiar place I had.”

Cheryl’s normally fair skin had gone even paler, and Henry had pulled her down onto his lap as Lyndon had spoken. Her voice held a slight quaver when she spoke. “What kind of father would do something so awful? How old were you?”

“A cruel one, and I was seventeen, almost an adult.” Lyndon settled a little closer to Levi. “My mom had struggled with bipolar disorder for as long as I could remember. She’d been disowned by her family because of it, she told me once. Her highs were…were dangerous times, for her and sometimes for me, but she wasn’t a bad person. She wasn’t a bad mother. She was just ill, and there was no one or way for her to get the help she needed.”

Levi could tell Cheryl wanted to ask how Lyndon’s mother had died, but good manners held her back. “First of all, you weren’t an adult, period. Age doesn’t make one an adult, either, not in my opinion. I can’t imagine…” Cheryl’s voice cracked and she cleared her throat. “I’m sorry you had to go through losing your mother alone. It’s horrible that her family held a disease she couldn’t control against her. How did you get along after she passed away?”

“The day I found her…” Lyndon gulped and turned his gaze towards his hand in Levi’s. “Everything about it is blurry, which is probably for the best. I got up to go to school, and went to check on her. She was just…it was like she was asleep, except her eyes—” It hurt to remember, which was more than likely the reason he didn’t remember much of that horrible day. “The official cause of death was listed as natural causes. I’ve never figured out what the meant, when a thirty-six year old woman goes to sleep and never wakes up. Doesn’t seem natural to me.”

“Lyndon.”

He forced himself to look at Levi and told himself there was no shame in the way his eyes burned with unshed tears. Levi cupped Lyndon’s nape and pulled his head close until their foreheads touched. “You don’t have to keep talking. I hate seeing you hurting.”

Lyndon rocked his brow on Levi’s, small movements, but comforting ones. “I’ve never really gotten to talk about any of this before, Levi.

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