Max by April Kelley

Author:April Kelley [Kelley, April]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult, Erotic Romance, GLBT, Gay, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781487409005
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Published: 2016-10-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Sydney had no idea how he’d pissed Max off, but the man hadn’t said more than two-word sentences for the past hour. The fact that they were sitting in the hospital parking lot staring at the large building as if they were surveilling the place only made the tension between them thicker. Sydney kept his mouth shut, though, and let Max deal with whatever internal battle he was fighting. He obviously needed the space.

Sydney didn’t know what it was like to have a parent in the hospital. Hell, he didn’t even know what it was like to have a parent in any capacity, but he imagined it wasn’t easy. Dealing with one problem at a time seemed like the plan.

It was when Max started up the truck again that Sydney said anything at all. Max put his hand on the gearshift, intending to put the truck in reverse, but Sydney covered it with his and slowly pulled it away. “Shut off the truck, Max.”

“Fuck you.”

“Fuck you right back. Shut off the truck.” He wouldn’t let Max run away and pretend that his dad didn’t matter. Suddenly, Max made complete sense to Sydney. “You’re not going to run to the nearest bar, get drunk and laid by some random guy.”

Max snorted out a laugh. “Even if I wanted to, you fucked that up for me.”

Sydney snatched his hand away, his shoulders came up to his ears. “Just go into the damn hospital and see your dad. After, if you want to fuck some random dude, then I’m not stopping you.”

“Yeah, right.”

“Fuck you, Max. You don’t get to sit there and call me a jealous asshole. I’m not so naïve that I don’t know that you’d just fuck me, pat me on my head afterward, and never see me again.” Even if Sydney wanted more from Max, he knew he wouldn’t get it.

“I never said you were a jealous asshole.”

“You didn’t have to.”

“Sydney,” Max said his name as if he were gearing up to give some long explanation as to why he wasn’t relationship material. The whole it’s me not you argument was something Sydney had heard before, and if he had to hear it from Max’s mouth, Sydney would punch him.

“Look, this is about you running away. Not my feelings for you.”

Sydney opened the door of the truck and got out. He walked around the front, aware that Max was watching him with an intensity Sydney couldn’t decipher the meaning of. He opened Max’s door and gave him a look that suggested he either do what Sydney said or suffer the consequences, not that Sydney really knew what those consequences would be. He hadn’t really thought of anything that didn’t involve violence.

Max stepped out of the car, and as soon as he did he grabbed Sydney around the waist. Sydney’s body hit Max’s hard. Max still had that same intense gaze, and Sydney didn’t know what to do but give in to its demand to not look away. “You got it all wrong.

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