CHAPTER 13
“Thank you, Frankie,” Manny said sadly.
“Why do you look so sad? It’s your twenty-first birthday, you should be happy as hell.”
“I am happy about that,” Manny whispered and tried to smile, but Frankie could see it was forced.
He pulled Manny tighter to him, wrapping his arms around him. “What is it? Please tell me.”
Manny ran a hand over Frankie’s shoulder. “I’m too young for you.”
“What? No, you’re not,” Frankie replied.
“But you just said―”
Frankie cut him off. “I said, I was afraid you were too young but then I got to thinking, that you were almost twenty-one and a man. So, there was nothing wrong with my attraction to you. I admit, Angelo still made me a little nervous about my feelings for you, because I knew he would rip my balls off if I even tried to ask you out,
