Skip Trace by Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen

Author:Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Zed tilted his head back, reveling in the feel of water rushing over his hair, neck and down his spine. He closed his eyes, and for an instant he was back aboard the Chaos, in the tiny communal shower stalls. In his imagination, Flick was standing in front of him, watching the water stream over his muscles, just about to touch—

With a sigh, Zed opened his eyes. Popping a boner in the quasi-public space of the Anatolius gym showers would not be advised—not that his cock was all that interested in action. They both wanted Flick and fantasizing in the shower was a poor, pathetic substitute. He made quick work of washing his skin and hair, keeping his back to the stream of water. After waking up with piercings, he’d discovered that his abused nipples were not up to the caress of hot water. He’d almost yanked the little barbells out—but somehow, some way, Maddox had convinced him to leave them in at least until after Flick saw them.

If he ever came back.

Two days. Zed’s ripmails to Flick had gone unanswered. Elias and Ness had been in touch—though Ness was the only one Zed had spoken to. He wasn’t Elias’s biggest fan at the moment because even if Flick wanted to go along with the Chaos, it had been Elias’s call to take him. He figured they’d have words. Eventually. He’d just add them to the words he wanted to have with Flick.

He knew Ness wasn’t wrong—Flick was fucked up. Hell, what ex-soldier wasn’t? Add in the stin and being a POW, then Zed’s death and the emotional fallout from that...really, it was amazing that Flick was functional at all. But that didn’t change the fact that instead of talking to Zed, instead of trying to deal with shit, Flick had run. Was it his fault for expecting too much? They’d never revisited their agreement to take their relationship one day at a time. Zed had just sort of assumed that since he no longer had a known expiration date facing him that they could—and would—roll into something more permanent.

Had that been selfish? Fuck, it had. Maybe that was part of the reason Flick left. Maybe he didn’t want something more permanent and he just didn’t know how to say it. Maybe—

Zed stabbed the shower’s holo interface and the water shut off. “Enough thinking,” he muttered, the words reverberating in the empty space. The students he’d taught had already come and gone, other duties calling them away from the gym. Zed had nothing else to occupy him—unless he wanted to go seek out Lise Bellerose. See if she had any work he could do. Or he could pay a visit to the Anatolius legal team, see if they’d come up with any new strategy to keep him out of the AEF’s brig. Just something to make the hours of the day go by fast enough that he stopped contemplating other ways to fill his time.

Like...if getting a lower piercing would hurt less or more than his nipples did.

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