Baby It's Cold Outside (2011)
“Forget about Alex. Be Jake.
The words rumbled around in Jake’s head all night, shifting with the wind. He finally told Gordy that he’d tend the fire. It didn’t do either of them any good to sit and brood in front of the crackling frames while the blizzard voiced the howl inside him.
Jake had finally fallen asleep in front of the hearth, as he might have as a child. When he awoke, the flames had settled in a bed of glaring coals. The morning streamed in the windows, lighter, although the wind st...ill buffeted the panes, rattling them as if trying to break in.
Jake stirred the coals with the poker then added the last of the logs. Be Jake.
He could murder Alex for writing all those pieces of his life to Violet, but in truth, wouldn’t he have made up a life for himself, if he could? Replace all the dark places with something bold and heroic? Alex had grown up sleeping on a cot in his mother’s tiny room in the Ramseys’ attic. He’d had no father, a legacy of poverty. He’d been the servant.MoreLess
The words rumbled around in Jake’s head all night, shifting with the wind. He finally told Gordy that he’d tend the fire. It didn’t do either of them any good to sit and brood in front of the crackling frames while the blizzard voiced the howl inside him.
Jake had finally fallen asleep in front of the hearth, as he might have as a child. When he awoke, the flames had settled in a bed of glaring coals. The morning streamed in the windows, lighter, although the wind st...ill buffeted the panes, rattling them as if trying to break in.
Jake stirred the coals with the poker then added the last of the logs. Be Jake.
He could murder Alex for writing all those pieces of his life to Violet, but in truth, wouldn’t he have made up a life for himself, if he could? Replace all the dark places with something bold and heroic? Alex had grown up sleeping on a cot in his mother’s tiny room in the Ramseys’ attic. He’d had no father, a legacy of poverty. He’d been the servant.MoreLess
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