Homespun (12 page)
Authors: Layla M. Wier
Tags: #Gay, #Gay Romance, #M/M, #M/M Romance, #GLBT, #Contemporary, #dreamspinner press
The kitchen door opened, spilling warmth and lamplight out into the darkness. The radio was playing low, and Kerry smelled fresh-baked bread.
“I guess Laura found something to feed us,” Owen said.
“I guess so,” Kerry said, and suddenly, unexpectedly, his heart was so full he could hardly breathe. It was a strange, imperfect life, a life full of holes and minefields and really a lot more sheep than he’d ever wanted. And they still had a lot to work out.
But being back among his birth family had only
impressed on him what he had maybe, just maybe, known Homespun |
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all along—that they weren’t
his
anymore, not in the same way Owen and Laura were his.
There were a lot of things about him, he knew, that Owen and Laura could never relate to. There were parts of him that would always be closed to them, not because he didn’t want to share, but because they didn’t have, would never have, the life experience to understand.
Being alive, though, meant breaking things—teacups and breadboxes and fragile human hearts. Nothing could be preserved intact forever; it could only be glued back together, and sanded smooth so the cracks didn’t show. But the weak places would always be there, prone to breakage. The trick to staying alive wasn’t surviving forever without being broken; it was finding people to help with the sanding and smoothing, people with their own hidden broken places, people who knew to be gentle with yours.
Home
, he thought, and, for all its flaws, he thought it could be.
About the Author
LAYLA M. WIER is the romance pen name of artist and writer Layla Lawlor. She was born in a log cabin in rural Alaska and grew up thirty miles from towns, roads, electricity, and cars. These days, she lives in Fox, a gold-rush mining town on the highway north of Fairbanks, Alaska, with her husband, dogs, and the occasional farm animal. Their house is a log cabin in a birch and aspen forest. Wolves, moose, and foxes wander through the front yard. During the short, bright Arctic summer Layla enjoys gardening and hiking, and in the winter, she writes, paints, and draws.
Website: http://www.laylalawlor.com
Blog: http://laylawier.wordpress.com
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Copyright
Homespun ©Copyright Layla M. Wier, 2013
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Digital ISBN: 978-1-62798-157-6
Printed in the United States of America
First Edition
September 2013