At eleven, when Jason started making time-to-go noises, Keith said,
“Hang on a tick. I’ll come with
you. It’s not very busy. I’ll just go
and talk to Tom.”
Jason stayed at the bar while Keith went out the back to Tom.
Tom came out with Keith.
“Look after Keitho, Jace. With
this murderer around.” From which Jason
gathered that Keith had told Tom all about Luigi and Cody and what had
happened.
“With my life,” he replied, holding Tom’s gaze, no hint of a smile.
Tom’s eyes glinted.
“Good.” He shook Jason’s hand, the
first time he’d done so, and then he kissed Keith deeply on the mouth in front
of the whole bar. It should have looked
odd, a 50-plus man passionately kissing someone half his age, but instead Jason
was absurdly touched. We blokes think a lot about sex, he
thought, but it’s love that connects us. And then, but
we do have complicated love lives.
On the pavement outside, Keith said,
“You want to go to my place instead of yours? It’s closer. And more private.”
“Well, yeah, normally, but now that grandam is here, I’d like to see her
for breakfast.”
“What about me? Us? Won’t she … you knaow?”
Jason stopped and turned to look at him.
He brushed his finger across Keith’s lips.
“She’s happy for me,” he said.
“She really truly accepts me. She
and my sister were the only people who understood about Brent and me. It’ll be OK.”
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