Back in the Rain by Elen Chase

Author:Elen Chase [Chase, Elen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 42

Talking with Dan after so long was like waking up from a bad dream; only, I couldn't get the previous night out of my head. He accepted to help me with my shooting training, so we went to the facility together. I had the feeling that Bill understood what had happened between us after just taking a glimpse at us. He waited for Dan to go talk with Steve in the other room, passed his arm around my neck in a friendly way and told me, "You fucking son of a bitch… you totally played me, ah?"

"I didn't play anyone, he's the one who rejected you."

"Of course, Mr. I’m-not-even-gay."

I was about to reply, “In fact I'm not gay,” but now that sounded as a pathetic excuse under any point of view, so instead I told him, "What happened, happened, there's no helping it."

"I haven't given up on him yet."

"No," I said, "I don't want you to touch him ever again." For a moment, Bill seemed surprised by my words. Then, a grin on his face, he lifted my chin up with his hand to have me look in his eyes.

"You've got some nerve, saying those things to me after you dared fucking my man in my bed."

"He's not yours."

"Don't get carried away."

"That's my line."

"What are you doing?" Dan asked us, coming back to us. Bill looked at him for a moment and smirked, then he let me go and left the room with a clap on Dan's shoulder. "Did he tell you something?" he asked me when we were alone.

"Nothing important," I said, shaking my head. "Let's start shooting, shall we?"

Dan helped me with my training, teaching me several shooting techniques. I felt I was getting better at it just having him by my side.

"That guy finally began to talk," he told me, while we were taking a break. "His name is Kevin Tyler, and he’s an ex-soldier, like the man we saw at the villa. Hopefully in the next few days we’ll get him to tell us something more about the other members of the sect. I want at least their names."

"I haven't seen him at all, even though I come here everyday."

"I know, I asked them not to show you."

"Why?"

"It's brutal."

"Are you taking part in it?"

"I know how these things work."

"Yeah, I heard something about that," I told him. I gathered all my courage and asked, "Did someone do that to you?" That was the only thing I could think of, looking back at those crisis he had at night. He looked away, his gaze lost in the distance for a while.

"Not exactly the same, but…" he murmured, "I was sort of…"

"Tortured," I finished the sentence. It was a heavy confession, I could feel how hard it was for him to tell me. He had it all still inside of him. Fear, rage, desperation. Why did that happen to him? I felt like shit one more time since I had done my part in hurting him too. "It won't happen again," I told him, "I swear nobody will torture you ever again.

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