Bank Robber's Baby: A Gay Romance by Rachel Kane

Author:Rachel Kane [Kane, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-24T18:30:00+00:00

20

River

I watched Travis pull his shirt back on, feeling like I had whiplash, as quickly as my emotions were changing. I was pissed that his brother had interrupted us, but I couldn't tell Travis that...after all, I had no say in the matter, no standing. But I was still breathless, and still responding to the sight of his body, watching the muscles of his chest and arms as the shirt covered him.

"You're coming back, right?" I said.

Please say yes.

He stared at me a moment, and I had the horrible idea that maybe he was having second thoughts.

"Yeah," he said finally. "Yeah, I'm coming back."

He slid his feet into his boots, and I walked him to the door. I wanted to kiss him goodbye, but he looked so angry, so distracted by whatever Ray had said to him, I didn't dare reach for him.

I should have asked him what Ray said. Asked why his face had gone so pale.

It's none of your business, and you do not want to get mixed up in crime. For god's sake, it's one thing to sleep with the man, another to become an accomplice!

My hand was on the closed door, and my fingers slipped down to the lock. I clicked it. There, safe from the world. I clicked it the other way. There, suddenly in danger from the world. That's all it took. One wrong move, one slip of the fingers, and you'd made a huge, life-altering mistake.

I couldn't sit here waiting for him. That would look so needy. I couldn't go back to the store, either. Nevermind the fact that I should have gone back to the store, that it was my job, my life, and since there wasn't going to be any great surprise windfall of money tumbling out of the walls, I needed to sell some damned books to keep body and soul together. No, I was too wound up to go back, to stand there politely at the counter while tourists got their fingerprints all over pages they had no intention of paying for.

Did I need to talk to someone? It was so rare anything happened in my romantic life, that I wasn't even sure whether talking was warranted. On the other hand, so much was going on...whatever it was I felt for Travis, balanced by this revelation that he wasn't a good guy at all.

He's a good guy, you know he is.

But I didn't know that. I wanted to believe it, but stolen money and emergency visits and that look on his face...how could I be sure what was going on? How could I know anything about him? Wasn't it possible to like someone without knowing enough about them?

Yeah, I definitely needed to talk to somebody.

I wandered back downtown.

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