Star Stakes (The Brotherhood: Legacy Book 6) by Merry Farmer

Author:Merry Farmer [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWELVE

Things had been going so well. Making the necessary post and then tossing his phone aside had been one of the more terrifying things Sawyer had had to do in his life, but it had also given him a sense of freedom. The awkward encounter with fans at the service station near York hadn’t gone all that well, but at least Sawyer had been able to stand up for himself.

The fact that he hadn’t just spit out that Casper was his boyfriend weighed on him for the entire rest of the journey to London, though. He should have come right out and told the fans everything, but aside from not having discussed it with Casper yet, Sawyer deeply resented making his personal life everyone in the world’s business.

It was personal. So personal. The fact that he wanted to be in a relationship at all was new and frightening. It didn’t matter how old he was or how quickly his Hollywood star was rising, asking Casper if they were boyfriends represented a major turning point in his life.

And then his dad had to go and ruin the moment with his usual, drunk, tired bigotry.

“Dad, you need to calm down,” Sawyer said once he managed to steer his dad back into the house. He was just glad that Casper had quietly come with them and shut the front door behind them instead of bolting. “Calm down and we can discuss this like adults.”

“I will not bloody calm down,” his dad continued to bellow, waving his arms around as Sawyer pushed him down the hall and into the lounge. “My son’s a fucking poofda! How do you expect me to calm down from that.”

“George, George, please,” Sawyer’s mum said, coming away from her little prayer corner in the lounge. She already had candles lit around her open Bible, and a few damp tissues littered the area, like she’d been at it for a while already.

“It’s alright, Mum. I’ve got this,” he said, crossing the room to give his mum a hug.

His mum moaned and wept, but hugged him back and pressed her face into his shoulder.

“See? This is the bloody problem,” his dad roared on. “You’ve been too soft on him, Geraldine. You turned him queer with your coddling and your fussing.”

“I didn’t turn out like that,” Kenny said from where he was sprawled on the sofa, beer in hand, watching the telly. “I’m a real man and Mum coddles and fusses over me all the time.”

Sawyer wanted to sink into the floor with embarrassment. His family was like something out of a bad sitcom from the seventies. It was no wonder he’d been so drawn to acting as a child. He already lived in the worst sort of show imaginable.

“Mum, I’d like you to meet Casper,” he said, fighting like mad to keep some semblance of normality in the middle of the chaos.

“W-who?” His mum raised her head from his shoulder and glanced around, like she hadn’t seen Casper come in with him.

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