Page 47 of Peach Tree Family

Chapter 12

Last night, that was such an incredible thing. It had to be something Seth only dreamed. But he could still feel everything – holding Theo, touching him, but Theo's mouth more than anything. But Seth would have killed to taste his cock.

That could only mean he had to be gay. Dumb of him not to figure it out sooner, but he couldn't remember ever feeling anything for any guy other than Theo. And Theo was like the sun burning him up, blinding him.

Then last night he came to his room. Something so good had to be a dream.

His morning was all confused because of it even as he drove Ace to school and Theo to work. At the café, Seth had to focus hard not to mess up. He didn't know how much longer he would have the job, so he had to get good tips.

A favorite with the customers was Wyatt's husband, Sam. Seth was surprised to find out who he was. Sam waited tables and took over for the cook sometimes. He was good at everything but you wouldn't know it. Sam was quiet, serious, and modest to a fault, very different from that Wyatt.

That reminded Seth of how Theo told him that the two of them were married right before he told him he was gay. And then Seth lost his damn mind. But last night...

No. He had to stop thinking about that and do his job.

Seth didn't finish work in time to pick up Ace, but he went to get Theo at the inn later. As soon as Theo climbed in next to him, Seth told him what happened when he was leaving the café. "This lady came up to me because of the truck and asked me to haul away some debris. They demolished a shed. That Mr. Miller used to do that sort of thing. She's paying so I thought I might do it. What do you say?"

"Where do you haul it?" Theo asked looking up from his phone. He must have been texting with Wyatt to let him know they were on their way to pick up Ace.

"There's a dump and a scrap yard."

"You want help?" Theo asked. "I might want to visit the scrap yard. See what they have."

"Sure. You want some wood for the porch?" Seth guessed.

"Either that or I'll have to put some yellow tape around it," Theo said.

"We can take Ace with us, right?"

"He'll want to help," Theo said sourly, but Seth smiled.

"We'll find something for him to do."

It turned out that Ace wasn't so eager to go with them. When they arrived in front of the Hayes house, another car was there and a little kid was talking to Ace and the Hayes boys.

Wyatt introduced them to the little boy whose name was Danny. It turned out he had just met Ace too. Danny peered up at him worriedly. "I'm three." He showed Ace how much that was with his fingers. "Are you too big to be friends with a little kid like me?"

Ace didn't even have to think about it. "I'm not too big, and you're not too little. We can be friends."

Danny looked so happy then he asked. "Do you want to be friends with Lenny too?"

"Sure," Ace said and then asked. "Who's Lenny?"

"My dog." The little boy pointed behind them to a blond guy with green eyes who was carrying a tiny dog.

Now Ace answered even more eagerly. "I definitely want to be friends with him."

That made little Danny smile and he went over to get the dog.

"He's done his business," the guy said.

Wyatt introduced him too. His name was Rob, but they didn't get to find out if he was the little boy's dad. In the middle of the introductions, the kids all started to talk about how they were going to split up into teams and play soccer with all the dogs. It was real complicated, and Ace decided to stick around and be on a team with little Danny.

Theo agreed, not that the kids were giving him much choice. As he and Seth drove off, Theo was shaking his head like it was all too much for him to take.

"I'm going to owe Wyatt a kidney. How does he do it?" Theo said.

"He was having fun with it, talking about being a referee and rubbing his hands together," Seth said. "But we lost our little helper. Hauling junk just can't compare to playing soccer with dogs, I guess."

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