Chapter 7Luca was up at five-thirty. When his parents pushed, in the past he always pushed back. Their stubborn refusal to accept his sexuality frustrated him to no end, but he didn’t want to be estranged from them. He wondered if bringing Dennis to see his parents would be the final nail in the coffin of their relationship. If they couldn’t accept Dennis, he would no longer be their son, because over the past three months he couldn’t fathom his life without Dennis in it.
At seven-thirty he made some Irish Breakfast tea and knocked on the door to the spare room. Dennis was already working. Luca learned that when Dennis was working, he was oblivious to everything around him. There was something familiar about this canvas. Dennis’ work in the past had always been abstract. In this canvas he
