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The last time I’d held him as he’d slept, the only tiainst et even closer to me than he’d been But this time around, he’d been restless the entire ti the whi fro I could think of to soothe hiiven up the fight He’d woken ht when he’d called out for his brother, Nick He’d also repeated the word “no” over and over again, and I’d been sick with the fear that he was drea about all the times his father had hurt him

My phone lit up with nored the crazy orry for Caleb, considering the role he and Eli had been playing in Caleb’s life for the past two years Mav had figured out pretty quickly that Caleb had an attachment to me that went beyond a little crush or some harmless hero worship If that had been the only issue, I doubt Mav would’ve been too worried about it Proble with the connection he and I had It was so I’d worked hard to hide fro Mav He’d confronted ed me to co off as Caleb just being overly attached to h my act

And he hadn’t liked it

Not that I could bla Caleb had been just seventeen at the ti man couldn’t have been in ahe’d endured Add in a guy like me as not only fifteen years older than him, but also didn’t exactly have a lily-white reputation when it came to relationships with othermy motives

He wasn’t the only one

I couldn’t understand my fascination with Caleb Cortano Even if he’d been closer to e and not in such an incredibly vulnerable state, he still wasn’t th and de in the bedroom

I would have liked to say s for Caleb stemmed from my inherent need to protect someone weaker than me, but I kneas more than that First off, Caleb was just beautiful There was no getting around that Even though he’d lost a lot of weight in the last year and his clear skin was paler than it should be, I still foundmy body’s natural impulses whenever I was around him It had taken every ounce of willpower I’d had the previous night to keep ed his ass back against ain played in my favor

Of course, it had also fuckedout on me

I bit back es fro app as I snatched htstand At least Caleb hadn’t takenhow the hell he’dapp was showing he was just outside of DC

I tried to maintain et back to DC Over the few hours it took to make my way back to the city, I monitored Caleb’s position From what I could tell, whatever method of transportation he’d used, he’d had it drop him off at a house in Bethesda, Maryland The DC suburb was one of the wealthier ones in the area, but I had no clue what Caleb would be doing there, since his faood thirty minutes away

I druatedtraffic Luckily, it was a Saturday, so the traffic wasn’t as bad as it could have been As much as I would have liked to have been coed, it actually made me more nervous

As I made my way down the quiet, tree-lined street,was off kicked in and I parked my car around the block froot out of rabbed the fake license plates I often kept handy when I orking a job and quickly covered the existing plates with them If anyone looked really close, they’d notice how I’d jiiti on the fact thatat my nondescript car that intently