Chapter 17

We all sat quiet for a minute.

“Look,” Derek began, “now that we know that

we’re okay with Gentry, does that make it easier for you to think

about last night?”

“Yeah, it does,” I said, and then I paused

for a minute. “But I still need time to think. A lot happened last

night, a lot we had never discussed. I didn’t see that coming from

a million miles away.”

“But surely you had some idea,” Wyn

protested.

“I’m not saying that there hasn’t been some

attraction,” I said, “but stuff like that happens in friendships

all the time. I just didn’t expect anyone to act on it. I had never

really thought about the gay thing, let alone done anything about

it, until last night. I don’t know what I’m feeling.”

“Which is how we thought you might feel,”

Derek said. “We thought that maybe it would be good for you to have

a place to get away and think today.”

“So, our chauffeur is ready to take you away

to a family place we have nearby in Shark Beach. We thought if you