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These two men were home to him. A home where he felt secure, something he’d never been before. The night was quiet, and he felt like he could say anything into that silence without being judged. “I have a confession to make.”
Jack made a dramatic face of shock. “You have a foot fetish and were afraid to tell us?”
Gray rolled his eyes.
“Are you into lingerie?” Mason asked. “Have you got a large collection of shocking pink panties, and you decided it was time to reveal it? Not that I’d mind.”
Gray tried to wrap his brain around that comment. “What?”
Jack smiled wickedly at Mason. “I’m filing that away for later. You’re a font of revealing information lately. Speaking of which, Gray still owes you?—”
“Stop,” Gray commanded. Once they got going, he was never going to get a chance to talk. If he didn’t say this now, he might chicken out and that wasn’t acceptable, not when he’d already been too much of a coward to talk about it before.
Jack and Mason watched him, Mason with an assessing look, Jack slightly wary.
“I never canceled our cabin reservations.”
“You didn’t?” Mason’s surprise was obvious.
Jack set his sandwich down. “I’m sorry. I was an ass to you about it, and you really weren’t hoping for a way out, were you?”
Gray wanted to simply agree with him but he had to be completely honest. “I was—am—going to go, but I wasn’t looking forward to it like you two were.”
“And now?”
“Now, I want to spend time with you, and I’m happy to do that wherever. I’m not really opposed to vacations. I…” Gray knew he had to start the story now or he never would. “You know that my dad left when I was twelve, and I never saw him again.”
Mason nodded.
“What you don’t know is that the summer before I was in fifth grade, my dad borrowed a camper from a friend and suggested we go on a family trip—something he’d never done before. My mom and I had gone places a few times and I’d gone to my grandparents’ farm, but that was it.”
“That sucks,” Jack said.
Gray shrugged. “I didn’t really want to go anywhere if he was going to be there. We drove up to Fontana Lake in the Nantahala Forest. I figured I’d be bored to death the whole time since I wasn’t able to take a friend, and my parents would likely spend the week arguing. The drive there wasn’t bad, though. My parents didn’t fight like usual. They were actually laughing with each other. I started to think that things might change, that maybe things would get better.”
Jack had pulled the cinnamon rolls from the oven and put them on plates for everyone. Gray paused, needing an infusion of sugar to bolster his confidence to keep going.
“You want to tell us more?” Mason asked.
Gray nodded. “The first night my dad and I gathered wood and built a fire, then my parents made dinner together. I found the most perfect sticks for roasting marshmallows. We made s’mores and Dad told ghost stories by the light of the fire. We made plans for hiking the next day and swimming in the lake. I thought it was going to be the best week ever, just like a family vacation should be, like the trips my friends talked about.”
Gray paused to take another bite of cinnamon roll. He’d started talking, and the story had poured out, but now he thought he sounded pathetic. How was he still not over something that happened more than twenty-five years ago? Shame turned his stomach. He put the pastry down and rose from the table.
Neither Jack nor Mason said anything as he poured himself a measure of whiskey and drained it. But eventually, Mason came up behind him and laid a hand on his back.
Gray took a breath, then turned to face them. “I feel like an idiot.”
Jack gave him a soft smile. “You’re allowed to have feelings, you know? The stoic dom role is fun in the playroom, but we like all sides of you.”
Mason slid a hand down Gray’s abdomen and brushed over his cock. “That’s right. This isn’t the only thing we’re after.”
Gray laughed. Trust Mason and Jack to know exactly what to say. “Thanks.”
“Just being honest,” Mason said.
“That helps. Knowing you care.”
Jack snuggled in with them. “We love our big cuddly bear.”
