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And I had no idea why

Chapter Five

Hawke

It took us et on the road since I’d vastly underestimated the a, he’d packed as many of Matty’s books, toys and stuffed anih space for Matty in the back seat

Which er seat next to me And the fact that his close proxi one

I hadn’t meant to touch Tate when he’d broken down about Matty’s condition But as his voice had cracked and then finally broken, I’d found ainstto extricate hter His tears had seeped through my shirt and my own eyes hadn’t been iotten more fucked up

Because the harder I tried to maintain my distance from Tate and Matty Travers, the uilt of what I was doing was eating me alive My threat to turn Tate’s DNA over to the cops had been an eotten what I wanted, but I couldn’t get the ie of Tate’s look of betrayal out ofI didn’t give a shit what he thought of me

I didn’t bother to wait for Revay’s voice to whisper in my ear that I was a liar because I already kneas Just like I was lying to ainst mine had done to me

I’d wanted him I still wanted him

A man

A fucking man

My entire life had only ever been about women…well, one woman Sure, I’d noticed other women in the years I’d been with Revay, but not one of them had stirred even an ounce of the same desire in me that my wife had Even in the years since I’d lost her, there’d been no one that had made me burn with need