Breaking Cage by A.J. Pryor

Author:A.J. Pryor [Pryor, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: A.J. Pryor
Published: 2016-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

I toy with the platinum chain around his neck. “Why do you wear this?”

Sliding off my body, he lies beside me. My skin chills at the loss of heat. The bed creaks at his movement, and I’m surprised when he rises, pulling his sweats back in place.

“The bathroom’s down the hall.”

He walks out of the room, and I watch the way his muscles flex with each step, the tattoos stretch around his back, wrapping his torso in a halo of thick ink. I want to know what they say, what they mean. I want to know about the chain. I want to know it all. Not for my story, but because I want to know what moves him, what frightens him, what he loves, who he hates.

“I’m sorry,” he says when he returns, his face pained. He fills the doorway, gripping the frame.

I sit up on my knees, the sheet falling to the side. “What for?”

He shakes his head, refusing to look at me, searching the floor for his shirt and snatching it off the carpet. His face in his hands, he sits at the end of my bed. A cold feeling of dread washes over me.

I inch over to him and run my fingers across his back. “What’s wrong?”

He eyes me over his shoulder, the pained expression on his face crushing. “I meant what I said. I’m all yours, but . . .” His shoulders fall under the weight of a burden I know nothing about. “I can’t talk about this chain. Please, don’t ever ask me about it again.”

Shit.

“Are you going to leave?” I can’t make him stay, but if he’d let me, I’d gladly bear this burden for him. If he’d open up, if he’d talk to me, I’d help him. “Derek.” It’s a plea, so many emotions in that one word.

With an audible sigh, he takes my hand. “If you want me to, I’ll stay, but no more questions.”

“Stay.”

He kisses the back of my hand and drags us under the covers into our private world, the secrets of his past locked away for a little while longer.

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