Lovingly Yours by Jerry Cole

Author:Jerry Cole [Cole, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Josh

We rode home in silence. I kept vacillating between worry and desire. Every time I looked over at Ian, he had his hands folded in his lap and a faraway look in his eyes.

“Here we are,” I pulled up to the time-capsule home and grabbed his hand. “If you don’t want to do this we can leave right now. I’ll get you a hotel room.”

“What about the dogs?”

“I’ll find someplace. I’m pretty sure they can’t kick Friendly out since she’s a service animal.”

He shook his head, “No, let’s face this. He’s your dad and this may be the only chance we get. You should try and show him how wrong he is, and I—”

“You don’t owe him anything.”

“I want a chance to face him too. I’ve never met anybody’s parents before.”

“Really?”

He nodded.

“I never really dated. I mean, it was never anything serious. I never got the chance to meet the dad or get invited for dinner by the mom. I’d like to do that at least once.”

I laughed.

“You sure picked one hell of a cliff to dive off of for your first time.”

“Yeah, well, beggars can’t be choosers.”

“I guess not,” I reached across the seat and kissed the back of his hand. “Thank you for coming. I don’t know what I would’ve done without you. I was losing my mind here without you.”

“So was I.”

“How did you even manage the flight?”

“Meds and a lot of meditation.”

I laughed again, even though I knew he wasn’t joking.

“I just figured that I was choosing the lesser of two evils. I could either sit at home and wrestle with anxiety attacks and nightmares alone, or I could endure a few hours on a flight and be with you. I think I picked the better mental health option.”

He sounded very proud of himself. I was very proud of him. It took guts to face your fears instead of running from them. If he’d stayed home and medicated himself into a stupor until I returned, I doubted anybody would have blamed him. But he didn’t. He ran toward his problem instead of away from it. He was always doing that. It was one of the reasons why I loved him.

“You make me feel like an ass, you know that?”

He shook his head and smiled.

“Let’s do this,” I kissed his forehead and got out of the car. Ian handled the dogs while I unloaded the luggage.

“Did you leave ANYTHING at home?”

“I still need to work and I don’t think you have the right equipment here,” he quipped. “Be careful with that one. It has my tablet in it.”

I didn’t bother ringing the doorbell or knocking. I took out the key and walked right into the house as if we owned it. Ian looked around, wide-eyed and incredulous.

“Yeah, I know. It’s like going back in time twenty years,” I said.

“It's awesome,” he whispered.

“Awesome?” I scoffed. “It’s like the house that time forgot.”

“Yeah!”

He seemed to be genuinely gleeful. I shrugged my shoulders and hoisted his bags up to the top of the stairs.

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