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How do you begin un-fuck yourself when you don’t know where to start?
How canIdo it?
I’m not sure it would be as simple as going back to the point in my life when I first feltfuckedover.
And when was that exactly?
Was it the moment Shawn Jakobe came on the scene and turned everything inside out? Or was it when I met his beautiful daughter?
It’s like I went to bed one night and woke up to a changed world where everything is the opposite of what it used to be.
The girl, though… damn.
Autumn Jakobe is the wild card I never saw coming.
I couldn’t stop looking at her earlier. She was looking at me, too.
She never came back and spoke to me like I hoped she would, so I wondered if her father got to her and poisoned her against me. I’m sure he did. There’s no way Jakobe is going to allow his daughter to associate with the likes of me.
Every time I found myself staring mindlessly at the beautiful girl I had all to myself in Vegas I had a hard time telling myself that I couldn’t just walk over to her and take her the way I did last weekend.
What a cruel joke of fate that the one girl to interest me in forever turns out to be the one I shouldn’t have.
There’s the whole knock to my career to worry about, but it feels like this girl stepped into my life and scrambled my brain. And my dick, too.
At least now that I’m at Jericho’s I have a break and a chance to get my head straight.
From the host of cars parked on his drive I’m assuming everyone is here. I’m probably the last to arrive.
I find everyone in the garden. Friends, family and other acquaintances who don’t need an excuse to get together for food.
The weather changed slightly a few days ago so Jericho took the opportunity to invite everyone for this barbeque. Although it’s still quite cold, typical in New York for the last week in February, it was a good idea and a welcome break after where I’m coming from.
Jericho and Knight always bridge the gaps that Hunter can’t fill, and vice versa. I’ve known the Grayson brothers since we were kids. We went to school together. I’m close to both of thembut as they have different temperaments there are some things I would share with one and not the other.
Knight is the ruthless calculator of world-dominating plans, while Jericho is the rebel who speaks the same villainous language as me. I need Jericho today. He’ll be the best person to level out this spell of insanity that’s seized me.
Jericho and Knight’s wives, River and Aurora, are laughing and talking it up by the koi carp pond while Knight’s grandfather is flipping burgers at the barbeque pit.
I spot a number of friends from high school and college milling around at the far end.
I wave to them and they wave back, looking at me as if they want me to join them and fill them in on my latest news. I’ll do so later.
I find Knight and Jericho sitting together on the terrace. Jericho is on one of the deck chairs with Knight’s son, Lorenzo, resting on his chest.
He looks like he’s the one who’s the doting new father, inseparable from his baby. Knight told me that since his son was born hardly a day has gone by whenUncle Jerichohasn’t made an appearance.
Only a few months ago I would have sworn that Jericho Grayson was allergic to the wordbaby. Now look at him. It’s amazing how some things change.
Knight gets up and joins his grandfather at the barbeque while I make my way up the steps to Jericho.
He smiles when he notices me.
“You will not believe what just happened to me.” I don’t even give him the chance to say hi.
I throw myself down on the chair Knight sat in, and Jericho straightens.
“What happened now? Weren’t you on cloud nine only a few hours ago?”
