Page 56 of Stay A Little Longer
“Okay, people. Break it up. The happy couple needs some time alone so I’m going Clint Eastwood on your asses if you don’t get off my lawn!” Lemon shouted from somewhere behind him and Trent couldn’t help it, he laughed.
Lance laughed too. A happy, rough sound that made Trent fall even more in love with him. When he looked down at the man in his arms, Lance’s cheeks were flushed pink, his dark eyes glittering and that smile. Jesus. He’d fallen in love with those dimples the first time he saw them.
“We should go inside and talk.” Trent smoothed a hand over Lance’s cheek.
“We should go inside.” Lance nodded and Trent couldn’t help but chuckle again.
“You just came out. Publicly. In a big way. I don’t think we’re going to have the privacy to do what you’re thinking about for a while, babe.”
Lance’s cheeks flushed even brighter, “Just… inside then.”
“Mmm.” Trent nodded his agreement and pulled his man into his side, grinning when Shane helped them maneuver through the crowd to Lance’s trailer instead of the one he’d been sequestered in all day. “Thanks.”
“Anytime.” Shane nodded and then flicked a gaze to Lance who blushed again before returning his gaze to Trent, “Just don’t hurt him or you’ll deal with me.”
Lance’s head spun up, “Shane!”
Shane chuckled, “Come on, you know I don’t need a reason to want to punch him.”
Trent rolled his eyes and all but shoved his boyfriend,his boyfriend, into the trailer. He liked Shane Lowry. It was official. He’d known he would. The man was so good to Lemon but it went deeper than that. He was a good man, a good friend. And no matter what he said, Trent didn’t doubt for a second that if he screwed things up and hurt Lance that Shane would make him answer for it.
“Get inside babe. I’m right behind you.” He stepped up onto the ledge and then paused, seeing the crowd was still lingering, “People! People!” Most of them were still watching him but the few that weren’t turned back to face him, “Go into town. Buy dinner. Rent a room. Fill up your vans at the Stop N Go. Give this amazing little town a little something in return for your intrusion and tomorrow morning, I’ll talk to all of you again, officially. Deputy Lowry will set it up. For now, I’d appreciate it if you’d respect our privacy and go away.”
There were some laughs and chuckles but for the most part, the strangers with the cameras seemed to take the hint. They began to disperse and he quickly told Shane that he’d be in town tomorrow morning and thanked him again for his help. Then, once he waved at Lemon who was graciously escorting reporters off the property, he shut the door of the trailer behind him, sealing him inside with the man of his dreams.
Who was glaring at him.
“You’re really going to talk to those people? Again?” Lance huffed. “They have no right to your personal business, Trent. You don’t owe them anything. You…”
He stepped into Lance and cupped his cheeks again, brushing their mouths together, “I love you.”
Lance softened instantly, “I love you too.”
He pushed, backing him against the nearest wall and then closing the space between them until they were chest to chest, hip to hip, sharing breath, “You came out for me.”
“I…”
“I didn’t want you to have to do that. I wasn’t going to out you. I was going to leave.”
Lance looked hurt by the very idea and wrapped his arms around Trent, “I know. I know you were but you said you were leaving and I just… I thought, if I let you go and didn’t come out now that there wouldn’t ever be anything worth coming out for. That’s how much I love you.”
“Lance, I don’t want you to regret it or resent me for it.”
“I don’t. I won’t.” Lance argued, “This is my life and it’s way past time that I started living it. I want to live it with you.”
“I want you too but it happened so fast…”
“Don’t you dare try to back out on me already.” Lance shoved and Trent collided with the closed door in the small space. His boyfriend closed the distance between them, getting right in his face, “I didn’t come out just to get dumped. I’m not letting you go that easily. So stop it with the buts.”
He grinned, “Damn you’re cute when you’re bossy.”
Lance glared at him, “I know it happened fast. I was there for it too, Trent. But it’s real. What I feel is real. I love you.”
Trent wrapped his arms around Lance, “I know. I feel it too. I love you too. I just want to make sure you’re thinking with the head on top of your shoulders and not the one in your pants.”
“You mean this one.” Lance tilted his hips, rubbing them together and Trent groaned.
“Fuck. You’re hard already?”
