“That’s lovely. I grow my own herbs too. We’ll have to compare gardening tips! I hope you’d like to keep in touch. I’d like to reconnect with you and your mother, this coven. Michael living here gives me a good reason to visit.” Claire looks so hopeful, and Daniel feels like dirt for evading the truth of his sexuality in case she reacts badly. She doesn’t deserve to be thought of or treated as homophobic when she has never acted that way or used slurs around him.
Daniel clears his throat. “I’d like to keep in touch, and I’m sure my mom will too. You were always good to us.”
He won’t allow a past broken heart to keep him from a friendship with Claire, who is a good woman and was a second mother to him as a child and teen.
“Such a sweet boy. You were as a teen too. Kinder than most boys y
