“Oh hell,” I grumble and put my beer down.
“There is no way you are fucking my best friend.”
Leo comes storming down the hall, dragging Izzy with him. Izzy looks ashamed and scared.
As soon as they get close, I take Izzy from Leo and into my arms. Leo gasps.
“Seriously? He’s the same age as me and has practically been your son?—”
“I’ve never thought of him as a son. He was your best friend, and I liked having him around because he’s a good influence?—”
“Urgh, god!” Leo throws up his arms.
“He’s a good influence on you and he made you happy.”
“Now I can make you both happy,” Izzy chimes in and then realizes how that sounds. “I didn’t mean in like that, well, not for you, but for Daddy.”
“You’re making it worse, baby.” I kiss the top of his head, and he nods.
“I’ll shut up now.”
“How long has this been going on?”
“It just started this week,” I answer.
“So you’ve what? Been trapped together and couldn’t wait to have sex for a week, so you turned to each other?”
“It’s not like that,” I reason.
“Yeah, you know I haven’t had sex in like four months,” Izzy adds.
“Don’t talk about sex,” Leo grumbles and rubs his temple. “He’s my dad and it’s weird.” Now he’s getting mean. “He’s like fifty.”
“Forty-four,” I defend.
“I just turned forty,” Whit adds helpfully.
“Whose side are you on?” Leo snaps.
“No one’s.” He backs off.
“Izzy is hurt. You can’t take advantage of him in his vulnerable state. He wants a Daddy and you’ve been playing along. Giving him false hope.”
“It’s not false,” Izzy shouts. “He’s my Daddy and he takes care of me, and I take care of him.”
“How are you taking care of him with one hand?”
Izzy blushes now. “I didn’t mean sexually.”
“But you are having sex?”
“It didn’t start out as sex, but helping him with his—” Izzy shuts his mouth.
“You told him?” Leo hisses and turns to me. “The one secret that you made me promise never to tell anyone and you told him. You didn’t even tell me. I had to walk in on you to even know.”
“We were trapped in the house, and I didn’t have time to go home before I rushed to the hospital. And no, I didn’t tell him, he noticed.”
“And then you started fucking. You’re straight, you don’t just go gay.”