King (Executioners Book 3) by J.M. Dabney

Author:J.M. Dabney [Dabney, J.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hostile Whispers Press, LLC
Published: 2017-11-20T18:30:00+00:00

Nine

What Now?

What the hell am I going to do now, Linc silently asked himself as he packed up his apartment. He’d given his notice before things had taken a turn with King. Did he regret it—no. Would he do it again—that was the question he couldn’t answer. Their first kiss had been in the hospital with King on painkillers. The first time they were intimate, again King had been on painkillers.

He knew he was over thinking the issue, he knew, but that didn’t change the fact he was doing it. Men like him just didn’t get the bad boy that was only good for their man. He wasn’t like his friends Twitch, Gregory, Ben, Elijah, the list of could go on. Their men were scary as fuck—the quintessential bad boys.

“You’re doing it.” Melanie’s tone was accusatory.

“Doing what?” he asked as he shoved more books into the box.

“Questioning shit. You can’t tell me something didn’t happen between you and King. It was written on his face when he leaned in to kiss you, and you avoided it.”

Not his proudest moment, but he’d felt uncomfortable with Melanie in the room with them. He’d seen the hurt in King’s beautiful eyes. In all the time he’d known King, he’d only seen the man have that look when King’s parents rejected him.

“I didn’t mean to hurt him.”

“But you did, and you have to apologize, soothe that man’s feelings.”

“I’m just worried about what you—”

“Oh, fuck, no, this doesn’t have anything to do with me. King and me are divorced. Except for being co-parents and best friends, there’s nothing between us anymore. I don’t even know if there ever was.”

He turned and sat down on his couch to study Melanie.

“What do you mean?”

She shuffled across the room and plopped down next to him.

“We were in this sort of best friend’s clusterfuck. Always together. When we were sixteen, everyone was having sex and, oh, fuck, was that drunken first time awkward. There was barely any eye contact for almost a week afterward.”

“You two just seemed so right together.”

“That’s because we were best friends. We knew each other better than we even knew ourselves. Like I said before, I knew King was gay before he admitted it. What I’m trying to say is, I’m a non-issue. Don’t ruin what you and King could have because you think I’m going to be heartbroken…I’m not.”

“But you two have—”

“Oh, we had sex, lots and lots of sweaty, dirty sex. Did I mention the—”

“I know!”

Melanie laughed loudly as she bumped him with her shoulder.

“Let’s finish packing up your stuff. The movers will be here soon to take everything but your bedroom furniture to storage. Then you can go home to your man. I’ll take Mal out for dinner and leave you and King to do all that mushy stuff.”

Melanie stood and started to walk off, he reached for her hand and stopped her.

“Thanks.”

“Don’t thank me. Just fix what you did, deal?”

He nodded, and once she disappeared, he went back to work. Being the asshole wasn’t him, and hurting King wasn’t an option, but he had hurt him.

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