Divide & Conquer by Madeleine Urban;Abigail Roux

Author:Madeleine Urban;Abigail Roux
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Abigail Roux, Paperback, Novel, gay, Mystery/Suspense, glbt, Cut & Run Series by Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux, romance, m/m romance, dreamspinner press, Madeleine Urban
Published: 2011-10-15T15:51:00+00:00

156 | Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux

Chapter Nine

ZANE shifted as he came awake. He was warm, half-wrapped in the sheet, but something was missing. He frowned and reached out, his hand catching on the rucked-up quilt before coasting over the cool sheet beside him. Zane pushed himself up on one elbow as he started to rub at his eyes. After a moment, he made himself stop. It wasn‟t like it was going to help. He still couldn‟t see anything. His chest clenched painfully.

“Ty?”

“I‟m here,” Ty grunted from somewhere near the edge of the bed.

He sounded like his head was down, his voice hoarse.

“You okay?”

“Yeah, just… restless,” Ty answered, his voice lacking its usual liveliness, even if he had just woken. “Couldn‟t sleep.”

“You could go for a run,” Zane suggested. Sometimes getting Ty up and moving helped.

“I was thinking about going to the office,” Ty countered, sounding guilty.

Zane frowned. “Thought Mac told you to stay home. If he sees you, he‟ll get that pinched look on his face, like he bit into a lemon or someone twisted his shorts.”

“That‟s how he always looks when he sees me,” Ty muttered, almost under his breath. “I‟m sorry. I just can‟t sit here anymore. I need to find someone to bully into telling me what‟s happening.” Divide & Conquer | 157

It had been all of one day. Zane shook his head and made a mental note to stock up on shiny things to divert Ty the next time they lucked into vaca—time off from hell together. “Yeah, okay,” he said as he pushed at the sheet to untangle it from his legs.

“Do you want to come?” Ty offered uncertainly. “If I can find Alston, I can blackmail him into giving me something. It won‟t take long.”

“I think I‟ll pass on actually going in,” Zane muttered. He didn‟t want to be around anyone like this. Not yet. “Blackmail?”

“Long story. Involves a duck and a can of oregano.”

“Don‟t tell it, please.”

He felt Ty‟s hand on his arm, rubbing comfortingly. Ty had been unusually tactile since the hospital, making up for Zane‟s lack of vision by touching him whenever he was able, as if he somehow knew how much it helped. Zane closed his eyes, grateful for it. He covered Ty‟s hand and squeezed gently. It was easy to think black thoughts when you were stuck in the dark, and Ty‟s touch helped him resist it.

“Breakfast first?”

“Sure, why not,” Ty replied easily. Zane felt him lurch off the bed, and when he spoke again, he sounded like he was stretching. Zane had an immediate vision of Ty‟s lean, nude body in the dim light of the bedroom, and he flushed with warmth, not really registering the words when Ty said, “I‟ll go start it up.”

He listened as Ty got dressed, probably throwing on his jeans and one of his numerous T-shirts. Zane didn‟t hear him pad out of the bedroom, but he could hear him banging around in the kitchen, cussing at the tiny, run-down space, talking to the pots and pans.

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