Second Chances [Elite Force 1] (Siren Publishing Classic ManLove) by Lynn Hagen & Stormy Glenn

Author:Lynn Hagen & Stormy Glenn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2012-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

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Ryan felt as if his universe had just imploded as he stared slack-jawed at Kurt. “We’re mates? How—” He closed his mouth, his headache amplifying as the implications of what Kurt had just told him sunk in.

…Mates.

“Wait,” Kurt said as he sat up a little straighter. “You didn’t know? How could you not know?”

“I’m human, Kurt. How was I supposed to know that we are…” The rug was being pulled from under Ryan’s feet as he looked at Kurt in a whole new light. Mates. There was an attraction to the Lakonian that Ryan couldn’t and wouldn’t deny, but he never thought—“Oh, hell.”

“Thanks for looking like you’re going to be sick from finding out that we are mates, Lieutenant Devries.”

Ryan could not only see the hurt in Kurt’s eyes, but it was coming off of the man in waves. “I just never knew, Kurt. Why didn’t you tell me the night we slept together?”

One small laugh slipped from Kurt’s lips, but it wasn’t humorous. “I never thought you would up and disappear, Ryan. I thought you would be back, that we shared something special together.”

“We did…er…do.”

“And that’s why you sold me?”

“I didn’t sell you!” Ryan was becoming extremely frustrated with Kurt repeating that accusation over and over again. “No credits were given to me, Kurt. I was doing my job. Why can’t you see that?”

“Let me toss you into a fucking room with Captain Orion and see how you fare!” Kurt exploded. Ryan was glad Kurt was finally talking to him, and hated the pain etched across Kurt’s face at the same time. “Let me shove you into a wall and stab you with that damn stick. I felt like I was dying for days on end. He not only physically tortured me, but did his very best to strip away every last scrap of humanity in me.”

Ryan quickly crossed the room when Kurt began to cry. He couldn’t take it. Kurt cringed back, but Ryan scooped the man into his arms nonetheless. Kurt was hurting, which meant so was Ryan. This man was his mate, a discovery that shocked him, but still true.

“Put me down,” Kurt cried.

“Shhh,” Ryan said as he sat on the low platform couch and petted his mate, holding him close. “I never thought you would be tortured, Kurt. Never in a million years, or I would have never taken you in.”

Ryan had believed he’d survived real torture in his past, but he was wrong as he stared down into Kurt’s eyes. The pain and suffering was evident as Kurt looked at Ryan in doubt and fear. Those two emotions were something Ryan didn’t want to ever see in Kurt’s blue eyes when they were trained on him.

He knew what mates were. Hell, he’d witnessed the loving devotion between mates when he was on board the Lady Blue. It was something Ryan had yearned for himself. He just never thought he had already found it and had let it go.

And he wasn’t even aware of that fact.

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