Chapter 17Jason was a little nervous to be meeting Ben’s mom and dad. He’d laid it on a bit thick—okay, a lot thick, since Preston had actually walked out in August—and he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to get away with it. Still, Ben had been alone at Christmas. But when Mrs. Haggerty had called him, she’d been so pleased Ben was no longer with his former boyfriend she hadn’t even called him on some of the things he’d written.
“I don’t understand,” he’d said. “If you love Ben so much, if it didn’t matter to you that he was gay, why did you give him that ultimatum?”
“We were hoping it would shock him out of his infatuation. If he thought he’d no longer be welcome in our home…But we fell right into that rat bastard’s hands. It was all he needed to persuade Benjie to move away with him. Maybe
