Late in the Day by Mary Calmes

Author:Mary Calmes [Calmes, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-980-2
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

NOW, AS I sat beside him in the back of the Chevy Suburban, I realized that in six short months, I’d come to depend upon him as a confidant, a fixer, and most of all, as an ally. He was still scary, but his loyalties were clear. He was, most definitely, my man. Friends we were not, but it was inching decidedly in that direction despite what either of us wanted.

“So?” Lee began, smirking at me. “Am I to shoot that man if I see him again or no?”

“No.”

“No?”

“Just—leave it alone.”

His gaze was on me, heavy, trying to peek inside. “Why?”

“It’s nothing to concern yourself with.”

“An agent from Homeland Security took you in, and then the DOD springs you on the word of the CIA, and I show up to collect you, and you think, what, he’s just going to drop it?”

It sounded ridiculous when he said it like that.

“Do you need to lie down?”

“No, I don’t need to—”

“You are old.”

I wanted to punch him in his smug little face.

“I mean, what are you now, like fifty?”

“He’s not fifty,” Trevan said quickly before turning to me. “You aren’t, are you?”

I pulled my sunglasses from the breast pocket of my suit jacket and put them on quickly.

“I think my dad had some like that,” Lee offered, smiling at me. “Those are Ray Bans right, the Clubmaster? The partial metal rim is really old school.”

He was lucky I wasn’t strapped.

“I’ll be in Boston next week.”

I needed him to stop talking. I needed to drop Trevan off with Landry, and I needed to drive out to my new house on Nahant and just have some quiet time to reflect upon seeing Efrem Lahm. I needed to process that whole encounter.

It had gone nothing like I’d thought it would. Never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that Efrem would choose his job over me if actually given the choice.

“Are you listening to me?”

I turned my head to him.

“I was saying that I have to fly to Cairo tonight and then go to Amsterdam on Thursday.”

It was only Monday; he was going to have a busy week. I forced a smile. “Well, that will be good. Amsterdam, I mean, you like blondes.”

“I do, so the Netherlands is a good place to start.”

“Have you been there a lot?” Trevan asked him.

“A few times,” Lee answered. “You and Landry should come with me some time.”

They started talking then, and I was glad to not be included, old man that I was.

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