Max and the Prince by R. J. Scott

Author:R. J. Scott [Scott, R. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Mystery
Goodreads: 22587543
Publisher: Love Lane Books Limited
Published: 2015-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Max stayed downstairs for exactly forty minutes; enough time to make sure Lucien would be asleep. Max knew he’d overstepped the boundaries tonight. Although nothing in the BI Handbook—if there was one—would say that attraction should be shelved. How could it? You put a gay bodyguard with a gay charge and you’re going to get some fireworks if the two men liked each other that way.

Especially if the bodyguard thought his charge was sexy, hot, serious, conflicted, needy, strong, and way too many other things that Max couldn’t even categorize.

Surely attraction didn’t make a bodyguard lax in his role. Shouldn’t it do completely the opposite? A kiss wasn’t likely to put Lucien in danger, but too much focus from Max on said kiss might leave Lucien exposed.

After he checked that everything was locked, he made his way upstairs, passing Lucien’s room with its sliver of light under the door. Clearly the prince was still awake. For a second Max considered stopping and knocking on the door, but he walked past to his own room. Once inside he checked his email. New files had been sent over from Ross, case studies on the other team and photos from Ruby, who had taken them at the meet. Max had seen her in one of the middle rows alongside parents and other students, though she’d blended in like a typical observer. She’d taken over two hundred photos and each one had been loaded into a folder open to Max.

He copied them all to a new folder, then one by one he clicked through them, dragging and dropping them into various subfolders according to subject matter, swimmers in one, team photos in there as well, parents another, students filed away, and that left just looking through each one just to see if anything was out of place.

He got halfway through before he realized it was half two and really he needed sleep. There was no point checking these photos out when his eyes were scratchy. He closed his eyes and tried to sleep, mental images of the meet and the swim and Lucien looking so damn cute and happy keeping him awake, but finally he found his peaceful place. He was just nodding off when his door slammed open, then shut again.

He bolted upright, his feet on the floor in an instant, fight coursing through him, relaxing only when he realized it was Lucien inside his room.

“What’s wrong?” Max asked immediately.

“I watched the film. Well, not all of it, I fast forwarded a lot of it.”

Max blinked as he tried to make head or tails of that. Lucien standing there in his jersey shorts was enough of a distraction, let alone the buzzing in his head from the sudden rush of adrenaline. Lucien looked a little uncertain, then that was pushed aside and he stepped forward.

“I like you,” he said.

Max had nowhere to go, the bed behind his knees, and for every step Lucien took nearer, Max wished he had somewhere to move.

“I like you too,” Max admitted.

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