Page 22 of Dark Passion
“Can we take a shower first.” I was stalling to figure out how not to lose Cole again, and how not to let him be the death of me, by me dying of a broken heart.
I informed Cole of why I left to talk to Julian, and I showed him the text Julian had sent. Then Cole did something that I didn’t expect. He chuckled, then laughed hysterically with tears flowing, and he was trying to catch his breath.
“What’s so funny? After you get a good laugh you’re going to walk out on me, right?”
“No, that is the furthest thing from my mind. Come close and bring your glasses.” I grabbed the nearest pair and sat near Cole. “Look at the dude. Julian said it was you, and he could pass for you, but for one thing. And this picture isn’t doctored, it just isn’t you in bed. It fooled you, but not me. I know your beautiful body, I’ve studied every muscle on your back, every mole between your legs. Every vein on your wonderful cock. You have flawless skin, and that’s unusual. What’s also unusual is a tattoo on your ass.”
“I don’t have a tattoo on my ass.”
“Exactly.”
I leaned closer to get a better look, and still I didn’t know what Cole had seen. He pointed. “See under his ass cheek, and I must say from looking at your ass lately, this dude has a gorgeous one too. I can see how from behind he could be mistaken for you.” I didn’t know how to take that reference about the look-a-like.
It was hard to see the tattoo, but near the split on his ass cheek there was one butterfly wing, and I supposed the other part had been cut off somewhere on the other side of the fold. “That’s not me.” I gazed up at Cole. He had been right all along. It wasn’t me.
“I wanted to tell you that your former boyfriend had sent me a video, stating that it was you sucking his cock. I didn’t believe it for a minute. I didn’t tell you right off, because I was happy to see you, because I thought... well, you don’t need to know what I thought.”
“No. Tell me, baby,” I said.
“That was before Max had given me the good news of you looking for and finding Charlie. I wanted to put this behind us, because I needed to be inside you and resume our lives, and not have Charlie, Julian, and Max holding us hostage. It seems that was all that was going on since I returned. All the drama I wanted to be free of and love you the way I knew how. I had to make it up to you, because of what I had allowed Max to do by involving you in his responsibilities. I had been ready to give everything up, but you saved me from making the biggest mistake of my life, after I’d worked so hard to accomplish my life-long dream. And another dream was to meet a man like you, and I did. I could have lost you if I hadn’t checked that picture and taken all that on face value. You can’t believe even your own eyes these days, and I knew that when I received that video on my phone.
“I think we deserve time alone. Go to that cabin in the woods, and walk around nude, scare off a bear or two.”
I fell back on the bed with relief with Cole in my arms. “I hadn’t planned on bears,” I said. “Seriously, bears?”
“After what you’ve been through, Daniel my love, a bear is nothing,” Cole said with a chuckle.
The End for Now!