ODDS OF LOVE : SEASON TEN

Episode 130

" We are not getting a gun , Austin ! ," Lyle snapped tersely for the one million time since his husband had mentioned this subject as they were going to work in Angel's sports car. " I don't like guns. Never have. I heard enough of them going off every night at Project W growing up. They scare me. You know this. "

Angel thinned his lips in a stubborn way. " And this so called secret admirer scares me. Gerald said there is no camera outside your classroom so he can't see exactly who left the flowers. And the cops are useless ! They don't care ! I don't want you in danger. "

Lyle swallowed hard. " I'm a little frustrated and frightened by it myself but.... I don't think I am in danger at the school. If he wants to hurt me he could have already done it. He's probably harmless. Harmless but very creepy and odd. And at home we have Flora and Rufus to protect us. "

Angel laughed in disbelief. " The dogs ? Rufus is on his last legs and sleeps constantly. He's also half blind and deaf. Flora never met a stranger who did not become a bestie. She loves you and tolerates me but she also loves the meat an intruder would toss her to get in. Guns don't have to be bad in the right hands. I know how to shoot. Hank taught me in our distant life together. I can teach you. Just a 32 or a 22 maybe. "

Lyle shook his head stubbornly. " No. No guns. And Flora is not that bad. We can get a security system if you want to waste money on one but I don't think it's that serious. "

Then his phone rang. He glanced at it. Hidden number? He answered it, saying cautiously," Hello? "

" Good morning, cutie ," he heard the man from the store whisper in a soft eerie way before whistling that same odd tune and then hanging up.

Angel looked suddenly at his husband's now pale face before returning back to the road. " What is it ? Who was that on the phone? "

Lyle said in a shaky voice," It was him. He knows my phone number. He knows where we work. What if he knows where we live? "

Angel cussed colorfully before saying firmly," We are getting a security system AND a gun. That's final. I love you. Nobody is going to hurt you. Ever. "