Total pages in book: 65
Estimated words: 63481 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 317(@200wpm)___ 254(@250wpm)___ 212(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 63481 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 317(@200wpm)___ 254(@250wpm)___ 212(@300wpm)
“So should I buy tickets for the next flight home?”
“What?”
“I mean, we’re going home, right?” When Will didn’t immediately reply, Scott said slowly, “You do remember that you took that job only as a favor to me, right? You wanted to go back to the US. We can return home now. There’s nothing holding me here, thanks to you.”
The subject shouldn’t have surprised him. Gadiel had brought it up, too.
“I can’t leave like that.”
“Why the hell not?”
Will searched for an answer that was more rational than I promised him.
It didn’t matter that he’d told Gadiel that he would stay for a while. That had been before the blowjob. It had changed everything. The truth was, the longer he stayed, the murkier his relationship with Gadiel might become. It would be better to leave before the kid could develop... feelings that weren’t as easy to dismiss as a teenage crush. Will didn’t want to hurt him. The boy had been hurt enough already.
And the truth was, after what happened this evening, Will didn’t trust himself. He’d already demonstrated that Gadiel had a worrying effect on his ability to think and act rationally. Leaving was safer. Smarter.
And yet, Will heard himself say, “I can’t leave like that.”
For fuck’s sake. What was wrong with him?
“Why not?” Scott sounded baffled.
“It might be a foreign concept for you, but people who work for a living care about their professional reputations.” He felt like the worst sort of hypocrite as soon as he’d said that. People who cared about their professional reputations didn’t fuck their clients.
Will pinched the bridge of his nose. “I can’t leave without handing in a two-week notice, Scott. I’m his bodyguard. He was nearly kidnapped tonight.” There was also the fact that they had been possibly followed home by two men—different men from the ones who had attempted to kidnap Gadiel. Will hadn’t told Gadiel about it because he didn’t want to needlessly worry him after the kidnapping attempt. The kid had been shaken enough already, and it could have been nothing. The men hadn’t been very obvious—they could have been innocent passers-by who had just happened to be going the same way too. But they might not have been. Will couldn’t leave him unprotected. That was why he couldn’t leave yet. Perfectly reasonable.
His cousin sighed. “Fine. I’m buying tickets for us now though. For a flight back in exactly two weeks.”
When he hung up, Will stared at the ceiling unseeingly, trying to ignore the knot of unease in stomach.
Two weeks.
Look at me, Gadiel’s soft voice sounded in his ears.
Will shuddered, his hand clenching into a fist when his spent cock twitched.
He needed to put what had happened out of his mind. It had been just a one-off. Of course it was. He was straight. He loved women, not men, no matter how pretty they were. He loved women’s pussies, their pliant bodies and soft curves.
Wrapping his hand around his cock, Will stroked it slowly, imagining a pretty woman under him. A blonde—he’d always liked blondes. But the golden locks kept shifting into dark ones, so he gave up. A brunette it was. Her tits would bounce enticingly as he thrust into her, her blue eyes glazed with lust.
Look at me, she would say, sharp fingernails digging into Will’s buttocks as he fucked her hard.
So Will did. He stared at that beautiful face, into those needy blue eyes, her full, bouncing tits and bouncing cock—
He came into his hand, cursing under his breath.
***
He had intended to tell Gadiel that he was leaving first thing in the morning.
But he’d fallen asleep close to dawn, after tossing and turning in bed for hours, and for the first time in his adult life, Will overslept. By the time he woke up it was nearly ten, and Gadiel was gone already.
There was a message from him.
You were sleeping so deeply I didn’t have the heart to wake you up. Don’t worry, I’m going straight to Zain’s place and he has a lot of bodyguards. I’ll be perfectly safe!
The message had been sent nearly two hours ago.
Swearing, Will strode to the bathroom. He finished his morning routine in record time, but it did nothing to quell his anxiety. He should have told Gadiel about the two men possibly following them home last night.
And now Gadiel wasn’t picking up his phone.
Buttoning up his shirt quickly, Will called Zain. He wasn’t picking up, either. That didn’t help his anxiety at all. His lack of composure surprised him. He usually didn’t have any trouble keeping a cool head at work. This wasn’t fucking normal.
Putting his gun into his holster, he strode toward the elevator—when it suddenly opened to reveal Gadiel.
Will came to an abrupt halt, his stomach dropping as he noticed the red-rimmed eyes and wet eyelashes. He had been crying. “Gadiel?”