Between the Devil and the Sea: A Dark MM Sci-Fi Enemies to Lovers Romance by Chani Lynn Feener

Author:Chani Lynn Feener [Feener, Chani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19:

“There’s something wrong with you,” Shade asked from his spot on the mattress, “isn’t there?”

He’d been watching the other man closely all day, taking stock of his movements and the expressions that came and went from his face.

All three of them.

“There’s nothing wrong with me,” Apollo disagreed. He was sitting in front of the desk, typing something out in front of the monitor. He’d been there for a while, working silently, either unaware of Shade’s gaze on him or uncaring. “I’m perfect.”

Shade almost brought up that whole modesty thing again but kept himself from doing so at the last second. A line needed to be drawn, a definitive one that could help separate the man he knew now from the one he’d foolishly believed Apollo to be. Everything that had taken place between them before the tunnel needed to be categorized in a different mental folder.

Because Shade’s slipup last night couldn’t happen again. He couldn’t allow himself to get lustful for his kidnapper and potential future murderer just because they’d had one amazing sex encounter on a rooftop. He wasn’t that pathetic.

He couldn’t afford to be.

“Since you aren’t a fan of the P word, should I switch it to Sociopath?” They meant the same thing, but Shade wanted to see how the other man would react. He needed to gain a better understanding of Apollo’s ticks if he was going to make it out of this alive.

Apollo’s fingers paused over the holographic keyboard, hovering there for a split second before he started typing again. The look on his face never altered. “You said you were ostracized as a kid. Is that what made you the way you are? Why you get embarrassed so easily and why you think so low of yourself?”

“I held out for an impressively long time,” Shade found himself replying, folding his leg so he could rest his arm on his upturned knee. “No matter how much the kids at school picked on me, or the whispers my relatives would throw my way when we were at family events, I believed my mother when she told me it was their problem and not mine. When she said they were jealous of what I was and wished they had a superpower just like me.”

That caught his attention, and Apollo turned his head and quirked a brow.

Shade chuckled and rested his head back against the wall, staring sightlessly up at the rafters. “That’s what she called it. My superpower. For a kid that made it sound exciting.”

“You felt special,” Apollo said.

“Yeah.”

“You want to feel special again.”

Shade glanced over at him, mocking smile never leaving his lips. “Guess I’ve always been gullible, huh?”

It sucked that Apollo had so easily picked up on that, on the fact that Shade had spent his life chasing after that same elated rush he’d gotten whenever his mom had patted his head and told him he was remarkable. The contented feeling he’d gotten at the implication he was perfect just the way he was.

“Don’t be so hard on yourself, Detective.

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