All Hours by ANDIE J. CHRISTOPHER

Author:ANDIE J. CHRISTOPHER
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2019-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Joaquin sweated and grunted his way through physical therapy, with his abuela thwapping the back of his head every time she didn’t think he was trying hard enough. That, he could have done without. He also could have done without the thoughts about Felix crowding his mind and his gym shorts. His physical therapist probably thought he was a pervert, the poor woman.

Still, between the stiffy that wouldn’t go away and the body that was sore from simply moving his shoulder around for an hour, he lay on the concrete floor of his apartment that afternoon with his mind racing about what had happened the night before.

Since opening his restaurant, he hadn’t spent much time or energy on his love life. Even before that, he hadn’t been really good at the love part—the sex part was usually all he could spare the time for. He wasn’t used to wanting a sex partner to stick around after they both got off, but Felix was different in a lot of respects.

It didn’t bother him that Felix was running his kitchen. It didn’t even bother him that he’d slept in his bed all night. What had wriggled under his skin was the fact that Felix would not get out of his head. Instead of food, which had been his obsession since he was a preteen, he was thinking about what he wanted to do with Felix—and it wasn’t just sex. He wanted to shave with the man and get ready in the morning. He wanted to share long kisses and day-off Netflix binges.

But they couldn’t do that as long as this was something that their families couldn’t find out about. And they certainly wouldn’t waste time doing couple stuff if their time was limited. It would have to stay just sex between them.

He’d never regretted that before.

After a few more hours of moping, Joaquin pulled his car out of the garage for the first time in almost three weeks. Although he was exhausted, he was cleared to drive since he still wouldn’t take any narcotic pain medication.

When he arrived at his restaurant, instead of the foreboding he’d felt the first night he’d found Felix in charge, he felt anticipation. And it wasn’t about seeing how the place ran. As he pulled into his reserved parking space by the back door, his hands itched with the need to touch Felix. His body still held the imprint of the other man’s hands all over his body.

He wouldn’t be able to sleep that night if he didn’t see him, even though Felix would probably think that showing up was a sign that Joaquin didn’t trust him to get the job done. He would just have to tell him that it wasn’t the case, though he’d have to come up with a better excuse than his unquenchable thirst for Felix’s company.

Music rang through the hallway like the last time, and the laughter was there too. Only this time, there was no dancing. And no one looked up when he entered the main kitchen area.

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