Uncovering Ray by Edie Danford

Author:Edie Danford
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: transsexual, alternative romance, sexual identity, LGBTQ, QUILTBAG, romance, nonbinary gender, college, queer, transgender, New Adult, gender bending
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-04-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I stood at one of the carriage house’s open windows and experimented with breathing. Inhale, exhale. Inhale…

Hey, not bad. Three deep breaths before I felt like coughing. A big improvement over the hack-a-lung episodes I’d had earlier in the week. Helped that the air was moist and warm today. And sweet. The grass was beginning to go from April blah to May hoorah and the smell of awakening earth and fresh growing things was a fine cure for my ails.

It was a gorgeous Saturday afternoon and the denizens of Fenton were enjoying the sun and the air too. A couple of ’em were slapping burgers and dogs around on a Weber the size of the mother ship in Close Encounters. Smoke wafted over the sloping lawn where a dozen of their fellow brothers played ultimate Frisbee. Mmm. Grilled meat. Laughing shirtless guys.

Wyatt was missing from the scene. Too bad. All those half-naked, ripped boys were gonna have to go without my ogling. I was sure they’d weep if they knew. My lips twitched as I turned away from the window and went back to the grilled cheese I was frying up on a new-to-me pan.

I was debating whether I should use a plate or take my chances with burned fingertips and snarf right over the pan, when I heard (and felt) the clump-clump-clump that meant someone was coming up the carriage house stairs.

My heart performed a joyful leap and I rolled my eyes at its antics. It had only been two days since I’d seen Wyatt. We’d texted heaps in those forty-eight hours, yet I was having Earp-withdrawal symptoms. At the end of the week, I’d had to work three double shifts in a row because Dottie had been battling an ugly flu bug. Then I’d come down with the flu because no good deed goes unpunished. Continuing the good-deed theme, Lisa, my manager at the diner, brought me soup so it was likely she’d end up with the dread disease next.

I’d made Wyatt stay away because he had a crap load of work to turn in and even though he seemed to thrive on challenges, I didn’t think the challenge of coping with his schedule while deathly ill was one he oughta meet.

I turned off the range, wiped my hands on my jeans. The clumping noises had stopped but now I heard something that sounded like stifled giggles. Maybe it wasn’t Wyatt at the door…

“You in there, Ray? I’ve got a surprise.”

Yep. It was him. I walked toward the door, smiling. “Um, I’m not sure I’m here. Depends on what the surprise is.”

“A good one,” came the response amidst more shushed giggling.

Hey. I recognized that giggle. My smile widened. The second I unlocked the door it swung open. Next second, Dave was in my arms.

I bolstered my bare feet on the slick floor. “Whoa!” I laugh-gasped as my ribs got squeezed. “Hey there, Goomba.”

“Surprise!” he hooted. He pulled back to look up into my face. “It’s a good one, right? It was Wyatt’s idea.

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