Chapter 19With Christmas a few weeks away, Kyle spent a lunch hour shopping for his friends. It broke his heart that he couldn’t send anything to Cherrie, not even a card, but the first three years that he’d been on his own, everything had been returned to him. He saw his brother-in-law’s stinking paws all over that, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Instead, he selected presents for the people who seemed happy to have him in their lives, including Hal, Brady’s boyfriend, and Julie’s boyfriend as well. Kyle had put together Brady’s gift already, a series of stories from the Stargate: Atlantis fandom. He’d printed out the pages of Braille and taken them to a nearby Office Max, where they’d been bound with a piece of fan art for the cover. The stories were exceptionally hot, and h
