K.B. Alan

“Being scared is easy. Doing what needs to be done despite that, that’s brave.”
― K.B. Alan, Perfect Formation

“He believed that they loved him. How could that be the easy part? It was
everything else that was complicated. Believing Richard loved him did not keep him
from being aware that the other man was holding back. Not in bed, not in trust, but
despite the love there was something there that Richard was not giving and it was time
to find out what that was.
And Taryn. Again, he fully believed she loved him and that she liked him as well,
liked spending time with him, with and without Richard, but she was very careful to
not spend every night with them. He hadn’t really noticed at first, because they all had
such different schedules. If she had a late closing it was easier for her just to go home
upstairs than to come to his or Richard’s house. Or she might be having a girls’ night
with her friends or babysitting for Petra, her friend from Richard’s office. Whatever it
was, somehow it ended up that she wasn’t with them at least two nights a week.
It wasn’t that he minded, exactly. He enjoyed the time spent with Richard, just as he
enjoyed the times he was alone with Taryn. Suspecting she was keeping her distance
intentionally, however, was another matter. This relationship shit was very annoying.
Usually he was in a relationship until it became annoying and then he wasn’t. This was
annoying but there was no way he wasn’t going to do whatever was necessary to fix it.
It was…annoying”
― K.B. Alan, Perfect Formation