Chapter 6Dinner was excellent, as Dario had expected it would be. While they ate, he kept up a constant narration, telling Shawn everything about his life that the other man might want to know. He explained what it was like to spend his entire life traveling for work, how his parents had literally worked themselves to death, how he became a glazier, how he met his first wife, and finally, he talked about Billy Ray. Shawn listened to the entire story with only the occasional interruption. As Dario spoke, he realized that he was sharing details he had never believed he would tell anybody. Like the way it had felt the first time Billy Ray entered him. And how he vomited afterward because the guilt and fear had made his stomach churn.
But by the time they polished off the ice cream, sitting s
