Semblance by Chris E. Saros

Author:Chris E. Saros [Saros, Chris E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller
ISBN: 978-1-64080-120-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

DRAKE MESSED around with the things scattered on his desk. He had been sitting there for the last twenty minutes, which had felt like an eternity, as he watched the clock tick away the seconds. And even though it felt like torture and wasted minutes that he could be spending wrapped around Scotty, he had to do it. They were playing it like a covert meeting, like you used to do in school when you’d meet in the bathroom for a quickie. Scotty left first, pulling on a jacket that Drake had stashed away in the back of the office to cover his gapping placket. He would go out and tell the girls that he had to go home because he wasn’t feeling well and he’d cleared it with the boss. Then after he left, Drake would make a point to make some rounds, make sure everything was hunky-dory, then follow Scotty out. They’d meet back at his place, and since Scotty had to take the train, Drake would probably beat him there even though he was leaving later.

He couldn’t keep the stupid grin off his face; he felt like such a schoolboy. He was playing hooky with his secret lover. It was such a clichéd and overused concept, and he would have laughed at anyone who had ever dreamed of being in such a situation. But now that he was experiencing it, it wasn’t all that bad. In fact, he would even go down as saying it was downright sexy. The anticipation alone was driving Drake up a wall, but add the secrecy to it, sprinkle on a little danger, and it was all Drake could do to keep from running out the door and speeding all the way to his condo.

He could control himself. He just needed to wait another five minutes to be sure Scotty was gone before making his rounds. He passed the time by fiddling with the items on his desk, smiling idiotically at the notebook that had only an hour earlier been digging into his skin hard enough to pull him out of a very nice afterglow. Using his nail, he plucked along the spiral, imagining that he could still feel the heat of their bodies embossed in the metal.

God, he was being such an idiot right now. But didn’t he deserve it? Didn’t he deserve just a little taste of a normal life? One-night stands had been his only relationships, that and whatever the hell he and Natasha had shared, which still confused him and kind of grossed him out at the same time. He’d thought that was the only type of relationship he would ever have, but somehow, Scotty had drifted past that mark, and even though Drake had tried to keep him away, Scotty remained. It was probably too much to hope for that they could get through this and stay together. Maybe Scotty would have to go away and hide for a while until Drake finished what he had

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