Monsters and Men: Love Through the Ages, #2 by E.M. Lindsey

Author:E.M. Lindsey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E.M. Lindsey

August was sitting in the parlor, drawing, when his dad came in. Teddy was in the kitchen preparing a supper they’d picked up at the market, and leaning his head toward the doorway, August listened intently. Teddy was speaking French, though, and August only understood a few phrases. But he got the gist of it.

It was interesting, listening to his dad converse in French like it was his mother tongue. Which, August realized, it technically was. He again felt cheated, like Noah had deprived him of part of his birthright. He’d gotten braille, but only after he begged, and because Noah didn’t want to stand up to his wife, August had been robbed of these opportunities to become part of this family at an age where it might have mattered even more than it did now.

He had to wonder where this bitterness was coming from, but he supposed things came into focus, into a new perspective when you were faced with the death of a loved one. And he had loved his granddad fiercely.

Sighing, he looked down at his page and saw he’d been sketching the face of Robbie. It was strange. These long weeks of recovery and he hadn’t thought about his friend and their first and only kiss. Robbie hadn’t bothered to see him at the hospital—though it was possible the other teen hadn’t known about the accident. Or perhaps he’d come in while August was unconscious and couldn’t bear the sight of him.

Perhaps, and quite likely, Robbie had assumed the same thing August did. Their kiss had led to them being punished.

August never believed in the Wrath of God, but the grief twisted inside him enough to make him consider even the most irrational things.

Closing his sketchbook, he rose when he heard the conversation taper off, and he wandered into the kitchen to see his Pépère pulling a roast from the oven. It smelled heavenly, and though he’d not developed his full appetite since the accident, his mouth watered.

“As-tu faim?”

August looked at his father for translation, and Noah said, “Hungry?”

“You need to work on your French, mon petit fils,” Teddy chastised.

“I do.” With the confirmation and agreement, both men looked surprised, and August shrugged. “I should’a been speaking it years ago.”

“Your mother didn’t want me teaching you words she didn’t understand,” Noah explained.

August scoffed as he went to the cupboards to set the table. “She could’a learned herself, couldn’t she?” He set three plates out while his dad got glasses and Teddy finished setting out the veg for the night’s meal. “Did you see her today?”

Noah’s face flickered which told August that he had indeed seen his estranged wife. “The papers are filed. The divorce shouldn’t take long.”

The idea of it was heartbreaking, but August accepted it for what it was. Noah was still young enough, and maybe he could find someone who made him happy. A woman who loved him for who he was, where he’d come from, and without the desire to change him.

Dinner was

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