“No,” Jon said. “But I found it on the step back where you saved my life.”
Darrell looked at the necklace, and then put it in his pocket again. “If I had lost it to save you, it would have been worth it.”
They clasped hands for a heartbeat before pushing ahead to catch up with their group.
“Didn’t we have a bet, once upon a time?” Jon asked as they got close to their group, who were crowding around the Sun Gate and waiting for the sun to rise over it.
“We did. But I think we’ll have to call it off,” Darrell said.
“Oh? Why?” Jon asked. He gripped his one walking stick tighter as they climbed the final steps toward the great stone pillars at the top, where the sun was just peeping through.
“Because I don’t want to hear you rubbing it in how you got to the Sun Gate first,” Darrell said. “We got here together, and that’s how it should be.”
Jon looked at Darrell and then kissed him, not caring who saw. The group behind them cheered and clapped, and the sunlight bathed them all in the first rays of morning.
The End
About the Author
Caraway Carter has worn numerous hats. He's been a furniture salesman, a dresser, a costumer, an actor/waiter, a rabble-rouser, a poet and most recently a writer. He loves words and stringing them together, he loves sex and sexy men, and he writes relationship fiction that reminds you--it's never too late for love. And he has lived his tagline. He married his husband on Halloween, at the age of forty-nine, and they are the loving parents of an adorable cat named Molly.
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