Take My Hand [Brac Pack 28] by Lynn Hagen Page B

looking back at the road.“We’ll see how much daylight is left when you get back.”
Well, that answered Darcy’s question of if they were coming back here. It only made him smile knowing he would see Raven again. Now that was something he was totally looking forward to. Maybe Raven would come back to his room tonight. Darcy could hope.
“Do you have your own horse? Can I have one, or will I be borrowing someone else’s? It’s okay if you don’t have enough of them to just give me one. I’m new at riding a horse, so if you have a starter horse, that would be great.” Sterling prattled on. Darcy could see the way Riley was stealing furtive glances at Sterling. It was as if the man was trying to figure Sterling out.
Darcy knew how Riley felt. Some of the things that came out of Sterling’s mouth baffled even Darcy, and he had known the man his entire life.
“How late is late to you? I don’t want to get here five minutes before it’s too late to ride.”
Riley gave a low grunt.“We’ll see when you get back.”
“That’s not a clear answer,” Sterling replied.
Poor Riley.
“So, are you gay?” Sterling asked Riley.
    Darcy coughed and choked, his eyes watering as Steven patted him on the back. What in the hell was wrong with Sterling? He knew his brother had no buffer between brain and mouth, but even this was beyond what Sterling normally said.
    “ Here we are,” Riley said, pulling into the spot in front of the diner and apparently ignoring Sterling’s last question.
If Riley only knew, ignoring Sterling was not going to make the man go away. Sterling had a way of getting the answers he wanted.
Darcy darted from the truck, not wanting to stick around for any more of Sterling’s personal questions. He just prayed his younger brother didn’t talk them out of a place to stay.
Chapter Six
    Darcy scrambled in the kitchen of the diner to get things ready for Steven as his mind wandered back to Raven for the hundredth time.
Why would Raven give him a mind-blowing orgasm and then leave him in the middle of the night? He had tried to convince himself it was because Raven was a vampire, but Darcy wasn’t sure if he should feel used or not. He thought they had been great together last night—although Darcy wasn’t sure what to think about the whole vampire biting thing. That wasn’t his kink, but after Raven had given him not one, but two mind-blowing orgasms from biting him, Darcy was quickly changing his mind.
When he checked his face in the mirror this morning, he not only didn’t see any marks left from the attack, but he hadn’t seen any bruises on his neck as well. That was a damn good thing. Explaining bite marks to Sterling wouldn’t have been easy.
“You can daydream about Raven on break,” Steven said as he wiggled his fingers at the counter Darcy was working at.“Right now I need the onions.”
How in the hell did Steven know about Darcy and Raven? He didn’t think he had been that loud last night. Had he? Darcy felt his face heat like he was standing in direct sunlight as Sterling snickered from the sink.
Great, now my little brother knows I like men.
But, if he was reading things correctly, so did Sterling.
Darcy scooped the onions into a small bowl and handed it off to Steven, wondering if there was a hole somewhere he could crawl into. He shot sly looks at Sterling, worried what his brother now thought of him.
“Give it up, Darcy. I have known for some time,” Sterling teased as he submerged a large pot in to the sudsy water.“You may be a private kind of guy, but you can’t hide the fact that your eyes wander toward men.”
Well, damn. Darcy had thought Sterling never caught those subtle glances or slight moans when he saw a really hot and tempting man. But hearing that his brother was cool with Darcy being gay didn’t make him openly admit a damn thing.
“Okay, enough teasing your brother. We need to get a move on. The dinner crowd will be getting here in about ten minutes. You