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Until now

I’d been around plenty of gay men and wo I had to a best friend was openly gay and I’d spent the last couple of weeks protecting the man he’d been in love with for several years It wasn’t so my body react to Tate’s hard body definitely was I hadn’t even once looked at a man in the sa was real…it was some kind of fucked up fluke It had to be Because not only could I not be attracted to aonly women, I could not be attracted to the son of one of my wife’s murderers

And if that wasn’t bad enough, I’d had to contend with Matty when he’d shuffled into the kitchen thisin his superhero pajamas I would have expected him to be afraid of ht, but instead, he’d studiedloosely in his hand, and then he’d climbed up into the chair across from and just stared at me He’d then announced that he didn’t think I was Captain America because my name was Hawke Thatun instead of a bow and arrows

I’d er as a distraction and had taken hirocery store a block frootten off the topic offrorabbed my hand as alked and simply looked up at me and said, “Daddy says” I’d taken that to rown-up’s hand, but I hadn’t had a chance to ask hiht would win if Spiderht

It wasn’t until we’d gotten back to the apartment and I’d slid a bowl of Cheerios in front of Matty, that I’d et a few snippets of information out of him Like that his father did dishes in a restaurant, slept on the couch and they moved around a lot The latter hadn’t been described that way of course – Matty hadquiet and quick It was a telling statement of what Tate’s life was like

And that should have

It didn’t

Because even if Tate and Matty got what they needed out of the deal, I’d still taken Tate’s choice away I’d terrorized hiet what I wanted And then I’d reveled in the way his body had lined up perfectly with mine as I’d held hi him were hard instead of soft Or that he hadn’t smelled like flowers and that his ers Or that his hold on

I could easily end this when I got them to Seattle I could keep my end of the deal because theto me I could entrust the

But I wouldn’t be done because I’d have to live with knowing I’d failed Revay in every way And I couldn’t do that I wouldn’t

I felt the hairs on the back ofme I cursed the fact that my dick twitched at the momentary flash of need I saw in his eyes “What?” I bit out a little too harshly

“Nothing,” Tate murmured as he shook his head and turned his attention back out theWe’d been on the road for a couple hours, stopping only once to buy a booster seat for Matty along with soht to buy for a little kid

“What?” I repeated, forcing the irritation froh, I wanted him to talk to me

Tate turned back to lanced at the back seat I looked up in the rearviewon his shoulder and Spiderman clutched to his chest

“Who was it?”

“Who?” I asked

Tate hesitated and then finally said, “Who did Buck and Denny kill?”

I felt pain shoot through et out, “You don’t seem surprised they did it”