Was the guilt due, as Blake had suggested, to his insensitivity to the younger man’s feelings for him? Was it wrong to invite Blake, to allow his mother to pressure Blake to spend Christmas with him? He’d thought he was doing Blake a kindness, not wanting him to be alone at Christmas. Still, Blake had spoken more than once about his feelings for Adam.
He realized that indeed he had to think his way through this dilemma.
Things were more complicated because Tony was coming for New Year’s Eve and the CQ affair the day after.
Could any of the guilt he was feeling be related to Tony?
* * * *
“Hello?”
“How’s the Middle West’s sexiest bookseller?”
Tony laughed. “Variations on a theme, huh?”
“Not very inventive of me, is it?”
“I’m not complaining, so long as you think I’m sexy. And I won
