Set in Stone: A Friends to Lovers Gay Romance (Cray's Quarry Book 2) by Rachel Kane

Author:Rachel Kane [Kane, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-08T18:30:00+00:00

“What did you tell her?” he asked Burns.

Mrs. Burns had not been interested in letting him in. “I think Tommy’s a bit under the weather,” she told Karl when he showed up at the door. “He might have caught a touch of something on that trip of yours.”

She hadn’t stopped him from coming in, though, only cautioned him as he headed up the stairs, that his friend may not be in the mood to talk.

Burns was seated at the window, staring out at the front yard. He hardly acknowledged Karl’s entrance. “Tell who?” he asked quietly.

“Delia. On your date. Surely you remember that, it was just last night.”

He wanted to talk about the interview. The worry and embarrassment of it were weighing on him…and that was without thinking about how he would break the news to Simon.

Yet this news about Burns had consumed him the whole way over here.

Burns scowled. “It wasn’t a date. Did she tell you it was?”

“Maybe I misinterpreted. A single man, a single woman, dinner, parents trying to set them up…”

“Oh, fuck off, Karl, it wasn’t a date. Everybody insisted, so we had dinner at LuAnne’s. Except we didn’t. I left.”

Karl fell onto Burns’ bed. The blanket smelled like Burns. He was so sad.

“Why did you leave?”

“She was… I don’t want to talk about it,” Burns said.

“She what? Did she hit on you? Come on, you have to tell me.”

“No, she was talking about our damned fishing trip.”

“I know. She mentioned that. I can’t believe you told her about that.”

“All right, hold on, Karl, I’m not sure what you think went on—”

“It’s just, it’s bad enough that I had the most humiliating job interview ever, but now I find out you were telling a stranger about what happened between us, when I thought—”

“I didn’t tell her!” Burns said in a sharp whisper. “And keep your fucking voice down, my mom might be listening.”

“Then what was her fucking joke about, about it being camp?”

Burns rolled his eyes. “Holy shit. Is that what you’re worried about? You think I told her you gave me a blowjob?”

Karl looked away. “More happened than just a blowjob. For me, anyway.”

“I would never tell her about that. I wouldn’t tell anyone. That’s just Delia. She’s come to a small town, and she’s bored out of her skull, so she wants to make a little trouble. She’s just trying to have fun. But I couldn’t handle it. She was asking if we…if…”

Karl lay back on the bed and pressed his face into Burns’ pillow. He really didn’t want to hear. But as the silence lengthened, he glanced over at Burns, surprised by the pain on his face.

“She asked if we’d slept together?” Karl asked.

“Not in so many words. And I think she was joking. But I couldn’t handle it. I left.”

Somehow Burns’ pain was making it through the aching fog that surrounded Karl.

“Why couldn’t you handle it?”

“Do you need to interrogate me right now?”

“You’re not really talking,” said Karl.

“I’m scared. I don’t know what else to say.

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