“I’m leaving work now. Should be ready by six,” Jake said into his phone. Despite himself he couldn’t help smiling. He allowed himself to feel like a teenager, anticipating his date with Henry. Crawling through downtown traffic, he let his mind trail back to too many years ago, and let the feeling of being the center of Henry’s world wash over him.
All the stolen kisses, all the secret meetings. He treasured every second spent together. He shook his head. They had both technically still been closeted, Henry deeper than him, but they had still found each other.
He’d loved Brian Sr. fiercely, but he did Henry, too. He’d wondered over the years how it he could love two people so incredibly at the same time, but there was no sense in trying to rationalize love. After his brother-in-law’s dea
