Stranded by HelenKay Dimon

Author:HelenKay Dimon [Dimon, HelenKay]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2015-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

The sex continued through most of the night. Different positions, each taking the lead at points. Cabe had almost forgotten how good they could be together. Almost. Amazing how it came rushing back when Brax slipped inside him and began pushing.

Brax leaned his back against the wall and stared out the window in the living area. “For the record, I prefer sex to staring out into the white wilderness.”

Shifting, refusing to look at Brax knowing their clothes would come off again, Cabe glared at the snow through the small kitchen window. “I thought I heard something.”

“Sleet?”

“Almost like a motor.”

Brax’s head whipped around. “Are you serious?”

Good question. So much of the last few hours blended into a huge gray blur. All those old thoughts about what he would have said to Brax if he were still alive faded into nothing when confronted with the reality of him being alive and able to listen. Maybe he had reasons for what he did, but he still held on to his secrets. Cabe’s pressing need to hear the entire story right then had lessened, but it lingered, and it would hit him again full force at some point.

Talking about what happened with Alina’s botched rescue and the shooting flipped a switch inside Cabe. All the memories he tried so hard to forget about those days, and ones long ago, came rushing back.

“It may have been a dream. I blacked out there for a second.” Cabe tried to make a postsex joke, but he didn’t feel all that lighthearted at the moment. A weight had descended. The sex, drifting off beside Brax, had been great, but those moments brought back other ones.

“I can’t really imagine you doing that.” Brax smiled but it quickly faded. “Wait, you’re serious. Spill it.”

Cabe tried to wave the concern off. He barely knew what was happening inside him, so he really didn’t know how to explain it to Brax. “Not important.”

“Now who’s withholding information?”

Score one for Brax.

After scanning the landscape one last time, Cabe came away from the wall and moved over to Brax. When he sat on the small couch, Brax dropped to the armrest. The move put them a few feet apart. Too close to hide much.

Cabe searched for the right words. When those didn’t come, he just went with what was in his head. “After Umarov killed Alina I went numb. That has never fucking happened to me before. The utter blankness and feeling of . . .”

“Helplessness.”

Of course Brax got it. No surprise there. “If I had stood there a few more seconds, I likely would have been gunned down.”

Brax didn’t move. He just sat there, silently supporting. Despite the fights and their differences and the wall between them that seemed to move up and down conversation by conversation, Brax understood. He knew what it was like to be in the field. To make the split-second decision that took lives. Maybe it was his faith, but he did not take the responsibility lightly, and Cabe appreciated that.

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