Fix You by Gen Ryan

Author:Gen Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay, romance, mm romance, gay romance, gay fiction, novella, trade, mechanic
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Published: 2016-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Jason

I smiled as Max’s name popped up on my cell screen. We’d spent the last few days texting each other. It was comfortable, normal and not forced, and if I was quite honest, hot as hell.

We hadn’t talked on the phone yet, so seeing his name caught me off guard, but it was welcome.

“Hey,” I answered playfully.

“Jason.” The tone of his voice tore my heart to pieces. Something wasn’t right.

“It’s my dad. He’s sick.” That was all I needed to hear before I turned my car around and headed to his house.

“I’m on my way. Is Melanie there with you?” Okay, my insecurities were showing. I hoped that I was the first person Max called. That when he thought of someone bringing him comfort, the first person he thought of was me.

“No. I called you. I need you.” The words were simple but despite the circumstances, they meant so much. This wasn’t about Max and me. It was about his father, and he’d chosen to reach out to me to comfort him, to be his strength, and that was exactly what I was going to do.

Within ten minutes I’d pulled up to his house, and what I saw broke me. Max sat on his couch, his eyes red-rimmed and swollen from all the tears he had let fall. I didn’t say anything. I simply placed my wallet and keys on the side table and held him. I held him as he wept. Each sob, I let soak into me.

“I wish I could take the pain away. I know what it’s like.” I let Max go and he looked at me, sadness permeating his perfect face.

“I figured. That’s why I called you.” A small smile curved on his lips. “Plus you make me feel.” He paused for a minute. “Safe. Like I can say and be who I am and it doesn’t matter to you. That you won’t judge me.”

I didn’t say anything. I wanted him to open up and share what made him comfortable.

“He has lung cancer. Can you believe it?” He laughed. “A man who never smoked a day in his life getting lung cancer. Seems wrong.” He shook his head. “That’s life though, right? Tons of shit that doesn’t make any sense.” Max reached out and touched my cheek. “Just like us.”

“Huh?” I asked.

“We don’t make sense at all. You’re a CEO and embrace who you are. And then there’s me, a mechanic who’s been hiding behind a woman I don’t want and in love with a man who’s too good to be true.”

I didn’t quiet process his words. I stared at him as his eyes bored into me.

“You love me?” I breathed the words, like a secret only for us to share.

“I do.” His words were forceful, but they were true. There was something laced underneath those words, something that left me on edge.

“Strip.” My hesitation and doubt washed away at his demand.

“What?” I asked, stunned.

“I need this. I need to feel you.” He ripped the shirt off me.

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