Thaddeus by Riley Edwards

Author:Riley Edwards [Edwards, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2019-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Emerson

Even if I hadn’t been staring down at Thaddeus, I would’ve known something had changed.

Something big.

The energy in the room crackled and his brown eyes went from angry to tortured. I watched it happen. I saw it. The change in him was so big, it scared the hell out of me.

“Agápi mou.” His words were strangled. “Fuck, baby, fuck.”

His pain was shredding me, even if I didn’t understand what had caused it.

Thaddeus did an ab curl, tagged me around the back of the neck, and went back down, taking me with him. I landed on his chest and he rolled us until I was on my back and he shoved his face into my neck.

“Fuck, Emmy,” he groaned there.

That was a lot of fucks, and I still didn’t know what had him so worked up.

“I think you need to explain what’s happening, Thaddeus.”

He didn’t say anything; he just kept his face buried and held me tight. My arms came up and I wrapped them around his broad torso and planted my palms on his back. And damn if it didn’t feel good. The weight of him pressing me to the mattress, his breath on my neck, one of his hands on the back of my head.

God, I’d missed this. Missed him. And feeling it now, after all these years, it hurt like a mother. Because I knew whatever had freaked Thaddeus out would pass, and when it did, he’d take it back and I’d be left with yet another memory of how good it felt to be in his arms.

Life sucked.

The universe had been cruel but this, right here, had to be the worst kind of joke. Giving me something so sweet, when I couldn’t keep it.

I didn’t know what to say, so we both just laid there holding on to each other. After a spell of us sitting in silence, I felt wetness against my throat and I was thinking I must’ve been imagining things. But the longer I waited, the more of it I felt.

“Thaddeus, baby, are you okay?”

He shook his head but didn’t move.

Shit.

I couldn’t begin to know what had upset him. Maybe it was Declan. His teammate had had a brush with death, so close his throat had actually been cut. Yeah, that had to be it. Thaddeus was close to Declan, seeing him almost die would tear him up.

Damn.

His head came up, and with wetness still brimming in his lids, my heart skipped a beat before it started pounding double time. Thaddeus did not cry, not ever. Not when he got word his granddad had passed. Not when his brother called to tell him his beloved dog had died. Both of those events had hit him hard but never a tear was shed.

Now, there were tears.

“What’s wrong?” I whispered.

“Fuck, Emmy, this should’ve gone differently. Too fucking prideful.”

I was still lost, so I continued to stare up at his deep brown eyes wondering about all the things they’d seen over the last ten years. All the places he’d been, all the things he’d done.

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