Kenny's voice softened this time. He turned to Evan and said, "You can't tell me that what just happened didn't change things forever. If there was hope for you moving back home, it's gone now."
Evan had to stop and think about this before he answered. "You're right about that. After this, your father and I might never get back together. I honestly don't know how I feel anymore. He seems okay with this open marriage and I'm not. I was hoping he would eventually get tired of it. But that doesn't seem to be happening and I'm getting older and I want something different." He thought about Carson again, but didn't mention him to Kenny.
"Does that mean you're getting a divorce?"
Evan held his son tighter. "I don't know," he said. "At this point the only thing I know is we're going to take it one step at a time and get through this crisis. It will die down eventually. It always does. You'll see what I mean." Then he closed his eyes for a moment and wondered what "fresh hells" awaited him next.
Chapter Ten
In a move that surprised both Evan and Carson, Kenny arranged for his dad and his teacher to meet at a small bistro in the Village to discuss his grades. This happened a few weeks after Jeffery's sex scandal with the multi-million-dollar social media king, Darien Bloomberg. Since then, Jeffery had explained everything to Kenny, he'd gone public with the social media stock, and the sex scandal had died down to the point where people seemed more interested in whether or not social media would be a profitable investment than how often the Wall Street Shark was boning Darien Bloomberg.
While all this had been happening, Evan had been working on his next historical novel during the day and seeing Carson on the sly in the evenings. In lieu of what had happened with Jeffery and Darien in Silicon Valley, Evan thought it would be easier on his son if he didn't know his other dad was sleeping with his English teacher on a regular basis. Evan also had to be careful about what he did in public because the press had been following him ever since Jeffery's sex scandal.
Evidently, Kenny didn't seem to mind Evan getting to know Carson better, and he proved this when he set a luncheon date with his English teacher and Evan.
Up until that meeting at the bistro in the Village, Evan and Carson had been getting together in the early evenings at the gym where Carson trained on Delancey Street. He wound up enjoying the training regimen boxers did more than he thought he would. He even learned how to fight, which made him feel more secure. Evan always told Kenny he was going to the gym after dinner. He didn't lie. He just didn't tell Kenny what gym he went to. And if the press was following him, they couldn't fault him for going to a gym to work out.
After Evan and Carson worked out, they would meet in the small room at the back of the gym and share a few passionate moments together. They didn't have much time; none of these encounters lasted more than fifteen or twenty minutes. Carson would basically pull down Evan's shorts, bend him over the metal table, and fuck him until they both came. Sometimes Carson didn't even pull down his boxing shorts. He seemed too excited. He would pull up the leg of his boxing shorts, pull his dick out of his jock strap, put on a condom, and spread Evan's legs.
Although they shared a strong sexual attraction, Evan wasn't sure it was emotional enough to leave Jeffery once and for all. That was another reason he decided not to mention anything about Carson to Kenny.
But Evan didn't know what to think when he found out Kenny had arranged a meeting between them, without knowing they'd been seeing each other all along.
By the time Evan showed up at the bistro in the Village, Carson was already sitting at a small table waiting for him. Evan sat down and said, "I don't understand why we have to be so formal. We could have talked about this at the gym tomorrow. When Kenny told me yesterday you wanted to meet me today to talk about his grades, I was actually kind of surprised." They hadn't seen each other in a few days because Evan had been busy working on a promotional piece for a website that focused on historical romances. And Evan had told Carson not to phone him unless it was absolutely necessary.
Carson blinked. "I didn't want to meet you here. Kenny said you wanted to meet with me. I'm just as shocked. I figured we'd be seeing each other tomorrow anyway. And you told me not to call unless it was important. I figured I'd play it safe and not ask any questions so Kenny wouldn't make any assumptions about us."
Evan frowned and stared down at his lap. When he glanced up, he asked, "So what's wrong with Kenny's grades? Is he failing? I had a feeling all the stress from Jeffery and his moving in with me would catch up eventually."
Carson blinked again. "He's my best student. He's not failing. What did you want to talk to me about?"