Chance Encounter by David Horne

Author:David Horne [Horne, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Benjamin checked his phone. He had sent out the last text a while ago and assumed that work must have picked up in the office. Heather wasn’t responding.

The pang of loneliness hit him. Alex had been avoiding him for almost a week, and Benjamin had done him a favor by not going to the bar that he knew the bouncer worked at. If he was being avoided, he wasn’t going to go to a place where it would be thrown out into the obvious. And he didn’t really want to see Alex ignoring him anyway.

So, he had come home. Said he wasn’t feeling well. And after that Heather had made more effort to talk to him, just normal day to day conversations. He was grateful. It kept him grounded. He had met the guys from the office for a meal out the day before too.

It was like they knew what was going on with him. But they didn’t know too much. They didn’t know why he had refused to go to the bar. The truth was that he would have gone just about anywhere else they had wanted to go.

His thoughts were interrupted by a knock at the door. Benjamin sighed and went to open it.

The person on the other side was a surprise. He wasn’t expecting to see Alex ever again. “What?”

“I wanted to talk.” Alex looked down at his feet, shuffling them back and forth. The man looked embarrassed.

“About what?” Benjamin had to remind himself to play it cool. Alex was going to say something about what was going on, but he couldn’t risk scaring him away again. There was too much at stake. He wanted answers.

“About what happened.”

“I don’t even know what happened.”

“I know because I didn’t explain it.”

“Are you going to explain it now?” Benjamin felt his heart jump into his throat. “I want to know. Maybe I can help.”

“You can’t really help with this.”

“You sound so sure about that.”

“I’m pretty damn sure about this.”

“I was hoping you would give me a chance?”

Benjamin nodded and shifted to the side, a silent invitation for the man to come into the room.

Alex took the offer and stepped into the room. The door was closed. “Do you mind if I sit down?”

“Is this going to take a while?”

Alex nodded. “It may. It’s kind of complicated.”

“Then I guess we should sit down.” Benjamin headed to the fridge and pulled out a couple of cold bottles of water, passing one over as they sat down. “It’s probably better that way.” He kept his distance though, staying in a chair near the couch so that he couldn’t accidentally touch Alex or brush against his leg. It was the last thing that he wanted. This was a moment that keeping his sanity was important.

Alex looked disappointed by the distance but accepted it with a heavy sigh. “I need to tell you who that guy was.”

“The one that threatened me?”

“That’s the guy.”

“What is it? Who was he?”

“I don’t really know how to explain this to you.

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