Locked Down by Jess Anastasi

Author:Jess Anastasi [Anastasi, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-217-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

MATT WAS impressed with the fact they hadn’t ended up that late after getting all wrapped up in each another in the shower. Gabe had dressed in another sharp suit—this one a charcoal gray in a slim-line fit that should have made his ass illegal—and then they’d gone next door into Matt’s room for him to dress in his usual jeans and button-down shirt combo. They’d also grabbed most of his luggage and transferred it over to Gabe’s room, leaving Matt a little annoyed about paying for a room he wasn’t using for the foreseeable future and idly wondering if the FBI or someone would reimburse him for it.

Of course the tradeoff wasn’t exactly terrible. Shacked up with Gabe and all the time they’d get to spend together around his assignment? No way in hell was he complaining about that.

His stomach rumbled as he stepped out of Gabe’s room after depositing his luggage just inside the doorway. Gabe had definitely made him work up an appetite last night and this morning.

While Gabe locked up the room, Matt went over to wait by the sedan, taking in the destruction of his rental in the bright, glaring light of day. It wasn’t pretty, and the yellow crime scene tape somehow made it worse. Glass was scattered in all directions and even though he couldn’t see the graffitied words from where he stood, they were seared into his mind well enough he could imagine how the black spray paint would stand out against the silver-blue of the car’s panels under the bright Texas sun.

Movement across the parking lot caught his attention, and he looked over in time to see Thomas quickly walking away from him, past the motel’s office toward the street.

He didn’t hesitate, taking off after his cousin at a run. It looked like Tommy was alone and he might not get another chance to talk to him. No way was he about to confront him in front of any ALP assholes again, not after yesterday.

“Matt!” Gabe yelled from somewhere behind him.

“Just give me a second,” he called back, not slowing his run.

He heard Gabe cursing in a mixture of English and Spanish, which possibly meant he was in for a lecture in his near future considering Gabe’s warning earlier about not going anywhere alone. But he wasn’t, not really. He could already hear the echoing footsteps of Gabe trying to catch up with him.

Matt rounded the front of the motel office as he came out on the street, but then had to come to a quick stop when he found Thomas striding away only a few steps ahead of him—not running off like Matt had assumed he was going to.

“Thomas!” He caught up to his cousin and grabbed his arm in a loose hold.

Unsurprisingly, Thomas roughly shook him off and rounded on him with a scowl. His face was bruised and his lower lip was split. Looked like someone had punched him a good couple of times.

“Tommy, what happened to you?” His demand came out a little breathless from the short run.

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