Chapter ElevenDANTE WOKE UP with a start. It was dark outside and the room was sort of familiar. A light touch to his shoulder broke through the fog and he turned to sink back on Tommy’s lap. He moaned as he pushed himself closer to Tommy’s stomach, hiding and trying to fall asleep again.
“I think I’m dropping Road Runner and calling you Sleeping Beauty from now on.”
Dante cracked one eye open and looked up to Tommy. The smile he’d expected wasn’t there.
Just like that, everything slammed back into him. The flight home, the hospital, the talk they’d never managed to have. He pushed himself up, kneeling next to Tommy. He couldn’t look Tommy in the eyes. Not only had he broken down and cried like a f*****g baby, Tommy had had to console him. f**k! How pathetic of him!
“Sorry, you ended u
