Chartreuse by T. E. Ridener

Author:T. E. Ridener [Ridener, T. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00JWECPYO
Published: 2014-04-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“What happened to your hand?”

The question brought Rowan out of a restless sleep. His eyes opened and he gazed tiredly into beautiful blue eyes.

“You’re awake,” Rowan mumbled as he quickly sat up in the bed, gazing at Kasen.

“I am,” Kasen replied, moving a hand through his hair. “I can’t believe I drank enough to get a hangover though,” He smiled gently as he shifted to sit up on the bed as well, moving his hand to rest against the mattress.

Rowan frowned as he gazed at Kasen. He couldn’t keep this from him. As much as he wanted to protect him, Kasen deserved to know the truth about what had really happened.

“Kasey,” Rowan started in a soft voice.

Kasen lifted his eyes to Rowan’s again and he noticed that frown. It made him frown in response as his brows furrowed. “What’s wrong, Rowan?” And he still hadn’t answered his question about what happened to his hand.

Rowan let out a deep sigh as he licked his lips and then he shifted again. He reached his good hand out, resting it over Kasen’s as he searched his face. “Last night at the club…”

“What about it?” Kasen asked with a sudden worried tone to his voice.

Rowan tried to break it to him as gently as he could, as if he were explaining death to a child. Kasen was no child, he knew that; but he didn’t want to terrify him either. Learning about something like this could be traumatic, and he didn’t want to see Kasen tarnished in any form.

By the time he was done explaining about the man, and what he had done to him for it, Kasen’s eyes were on the bed. He was silent. That worried Rowan the most.

He wasn’t sure when the right moment would come to ask if he was okay, so he waited. It was all he could do and that wait was the longest of his life. It may have only been two minutes, or it may have been two hours. Rowan was surprised he was even breathing at that point, as he traced his thumb over the warm flesh of Kasen’s palm.

When Kasen finally spoke, it wasn’t anything that Rowan had been expecting.

“Did you put some ice on your hand?” He asked.

Why in the hell was Kasen worried about his hand when he had just learned that he’d been slipped the date rape drug and was nearly violated behind a club?

“Don’t worry about my hand,” Rowan whispered, but he quickly quieted when Kasen’s eyes met his own again.

“I will worry,” Kasen argued. “You saved me from that creep. He could have hurt you just as easily, Rowan.”

Rowan hadn’t really been thinking about his own safety at the time. He was more concerned with getting Kasen as far away from that man as possible. He frowned as he thought it over, deciding that the scenario could have played out in so many different ways.

Kasen was suddenly closer than he had been beforehand, and Rowan had no choice but to look at him.

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