Love is Always Write Anthology Volume 10

hand on Jason's shoulder.
    "Dad, I'm glad you met someone who makes you happy. Maybe you should be the one to take a vacation."
    He smiled. "I'm going to. I'll be going back to Texas next month for the installation of the software. I'll be on site until after we go live, and then Laura and I are going on a cruise. I'm gonna need you here to handle everything while I'm gone, which is why you're going on vacation now."
    "Dad!"
    "No arguments. I'm both your father and your boss, and I won't tolerate any insubordination."
    Jason rolled his eyes. He took a deep breath and then sighed dramatically. "Okay fine. If you can go to Dallas, then I can go to Houston."
    His dad smiled and nodded. "Sure. You can go wherever you want. But what's in Houston?"
    "I have a friend there. Someone I knew in college," he lied.
    "Okay." His dad lightly slapped his shoulder. "There ya go. So get the hell out of here. Time's a wastin."
    "Sure you don't want me to run to Starbucks for you?"
    ****
    Jason had been separated from Glenn for less than forty-eight hours, but it felt like a year. He sat in the coach seat waiting for the seat belt light to go off. It was the part of every flight that was most maddening to him. He just wanted off the damn plane so he could again be in the arms of the man he…
    What? The man he cared a lot about? The man who made him happy? Glenn was the first person in Jason's life that had ever made him feel this content. It was like Glenn worshipped the very ground that Jason walked on, and no one had ever been that way with him. To be honest, the feeling was mutual.
    After Glenn left Monday morning, Jason was heartbroken. He was angry and bitter and frankly, very depressed. So what did he do? He worked. He went in to the office that afternoon and worked until almost midnight. When he told his father the next morning that he hadn't stepped foot in the office, it was a bald faced lie.
    Then after his dad informed him that he was on vacation, Jason was afraid to even call Glenn. He had every right to be angry with Jason. It was a wonder the man even would speak to him. But when he answered the phone, he sounded thrilled. He was excited just to hear Jason's voice, and when Jason told him about his vacation, Glenn was ecstatic.
    "So what are you waiting for?" Glenn asked. "Get on a plane and get your sexy little ass down here!"
    Jason laughed. "I have a flight booked tomorrow morning."
    "You couldn't get one earlier?"
    Jason liked that about Glenn. He liked the way he was impulsive enough to do something just because he wanted to. Regardless the cost , impracticality, or inconvenience, if he wanted it, he went for it. Jason had booked the early morning flight in order to save himself a hundred bucks. It just seemed the logical thing to do.
    As he sat there on the plane waiting for it to pull into the terminal, he was kicking himself. He should have taken the more expensive flight last night. He'd already be in Glenn's arms. They'd already have made love at least four or five times.
    After de-boarding, Jason made his way through the terminal toward the security checkpoint. He knew Glenn would be waiting on the other side, and he quickened his pace, dashing hurriedly around the slow moving pedestrians in his way. At last, there he was.
    Glenn rushed over to him, scooping him up into a tight bear hug. It was like they hadn't seen each other in years, and Jason couldn't stop smiling.
    "Mm," Glenn said. "You smell so good."
    "I smell like puke," Jason complained. "A baby spit up next to me on the plane."
    Glenn laughed. "See, you should have taken the late-night flight. Nobody brings babies on the red eye."
    "Well, I'm just glad to be here," Jason said, wrapping his arm around Glenn's waist.
    "You hungry?"
    "Yeah. I'm hungry for you," he whispered.
    Glenn bit his lower lip, staring directly into Jason's eyes. "Don't tempt me. I swear to God I'll find us a supply closet." He glanced around, feigning an inspection of their surroundings.
    "Come on," Jason said. "We need to get my bags. I'm warning you though, I don't travel light."
    "I should have known."
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    Houston was fabulous, beginning with the passionate four-hour lovemaking session at Glenn's home. The couple stayed in the entire first day, made a huge dinner together that evening, and watched movies on Glenn's big screen in the den where they again made love before falling asleep in each other's arms.
    The next day, they went to the gym together in the morning and in