Frank and Liam made love and then slept together with several blankets between them that night. Liam was cooperative. He did not try to sneak a touch. Frank had made him promise not to. “It hurts me more than you,” he had said, and that seemed to make the difference.
The following day was Halloween. Frank dropped Liam off at the mortuary so he and his mother could go into town. Marion had to know she wasn’t Liam’s mother, yet she threw her arms around him the moment he walked in. “She wants to visit him often,” Vaughn had whispered to Frank. “But I tell her to leave you be.”
“She is certainly welcomed,” Frank replied. “I shall make sure to bring him by more.”
Once the other two had left to purchase a pumpkin and candy to fill a bowl to set outside the mortuary door for trick-or-treaters
