Chapter 9: That’s No Way to Make a Baby Gus gritted his teeth and fought to keep calm, but every word that fell from Luca’s mouth only made him angrier. And when his husband trembled in his arms as he told his story in a strained voice, when his voice broke on the word freak, Gus wanted to kill someone. Preferably his mother-in-law. But this wasn’t his trauma. What Luca needed was his calm and support, not his outrage. So he kept touching, letting his love flow through his hands into Luca’s body. He kneaded Luca’s neck and let his fingers follow along the spine all the way down to the swell of his husband’s ass. He murmured encouraging nonsense in Luca’s ear and kissed the top of his head. They almost never lay like this. Since Luca was much taller than Gus, their positions were usually