Chapter 9

He almost tried to turn the cart around, and just go home. He had known that Fionn couldn’t possibly love him, and here now he saw proof of it. This man would be his lover, no doubt, and Fionn had only been toying with Johnathan while he stayed at the farm for some inexplicable reason of his own. But he couldn’t turn the cart fast enough, and Fionn had seen him already.

“Hello!” he called out with a cheery wave, trotting over toward the cart.

Johnathan just looked at him.

Fionn slowed, looking puzzled. “What’s wrong?”

And then Johnathan’s heartbreak suddenly flashed over into anger, to see Fionn so careless of him that he would not even know what was wrong. “What’s wrong? You come stay at my farm, you give me smiles and kisses, and you make me think that maybe you might love me, when you obviously don’t, and won’t stay! I wish you’d never come!”

“I…” Fionn looked like he’d been hit in the face. “What?”