Chapter 13
Spending time alone together was difficult for Ellis and Martin. As Martin pointed out in frustration at one point, “I can only impose on my friends so often and sitters aren’t always available at the drop of a hat.” Still, in the next two months, they managed to share Martin’s bed a few times, and Ellis’s once when Martin insisted with a grin that he wanted to find out if it was as comfortable as his own. “It is,” he declared happily once they finished a particularly intense bout of making love.
Martin and Todd did come out to Ellis’s house every weekend, much to Jive’s delight. The dog and the boy had bonded to the point that, when the day was over, they were reluctant to part.
It was early autumn when Ellis broached the subject to Martin which had been foremost in his thou
