Finding You by Hudson Max

Author:Hudson, Max [Hudson, Max]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-12-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Adrian Crow

Simon was quiet as they once more climbed into the car and set off, taking familiar roads back toward Minnie’s place. Familiar mostly because it really was the only way to get there, otherwise Adrian would have been tempted to weave through some side streets.

He really wasn’t convinced that they were the only people interested in Minnie’s suspicious absence.

Adrian glanced sidelong at his silent companion as they reached an open stretch of road. Simon wasn’t really looking at anything, as far as he could tell, his brow leaned up against the glass of the window, eyes rather vague and unfocused.

It had been difficult before not to let his mind wander with Simon. Less so over the last forty-eight hours, considering the more-than-a-little stressful circumstances. Adrian had to admit he spent more time than really should have been necessary dragging himself out of. He was going to go with risqué ponderings whenever he was alone with Minnie’s childhood best friend.

Now that he actually knew what that experience could be like, his mind wandered a little.

He quickly tried to school his imagination back under control, rolling his shoulders back in an effort to ease some tension and clearing his throat. “Right, so. We can probably just get in through the back, like we did yesterday “I locked the door behind us when we left but it wasn’t too hard to pick.”

He frowned even as he said that. Minnie really should invest in some sort of alarm system, he had been telling her that for years.

Of course, that fact that she hadn’t listened to him did make their job a little easier, at least for now.

“Okay,” Simon replied in a low rumble. Adrian glanced over at him again and saw that he had lifted his shoulders up toward his ears a bit, as though he was trying to go back to that “shrink down and hope people think I’m smaller than I am” thing.

His heart sort of twinged guiltily. He got the very distinct feeling that he was at least partially responsible for that posture.

He knew Simon wanted to talk about what had happened back at his apartment. He knew that they probably should talk about it. Just not right now. There was too much going on, and he had known they were both stressed and worried and really just on edge in every sense of the term, and that had been an almost unavoidable culmination of it all, a sense of release from the building pressure.

He also knew that eventually—in a few minutes, a few hours, maybe a few days—Simon was going to point all that out. Politely, of course, because even when Adrian was annoying the shit out of him, he knew the other man struggled to be polite. He would point all that out and then say it was nice, thank you very much, but it really hadn’t meant anything.

“I’ve been hate-flirting with you for years! If you thought that’s what I was doing with Mina but you can’t pick it up when it’s directed at you.

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