The Cat's Maus (The Three Rings: A Queer Mafia Romance Book 1) by Sav Uong

Author:Sav Uong [Uong, Sav]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

The Truth

Issac couldn’t focus as he stared blankly at the lined paper, several lines already scratched out. His slip with Dimitri had rattled him more than he wanted to admit. That was another danger of being honest that he hadn’t told Dimitri. Once you started, it got very easy to just keep going until you revealed too much. As a child, that mistake had gotten him moved around from foster home to foster home until he learned it was best to just not- not speak, not get close, not be honest at all- a rule he had lived by for over ten years. Then Felinus came around and started breaking down his walls, making him think he could be seen, and his guard dropped.

He stared at the little picture of a cat he had drawn, frowning at it. He used to draw all the time, but it became a waste of paper, a distraction. He drew another cat, giving it a vest. Felinus leaving that morning had unlocked a lot of things that he thought he had forgotten about.

Was this what it was like for you, he thought, drawing a stick figure and using his red pen to give her curly hair and the blue one to draw scrubs. Did you wake up to the phone calls and feel your stomach twist into knots not knowing if he’d come home? A second stick figure joined the woman, taller, with broad shoulders with simple jeans and a t-shirt, and most importantly, holding her hand. Did you just get into the shower, too, instead of feeling his warmth leave the bed?

His fingers tightened on the pen as a water drop fell onto the faceless stick couple. He pressed the tip into the paper next to the man then scribbled over both of them, hard and fast until the paper tore and he ripped the whole sheet out. Crumpling it in his hands, he threw it away from him and listened to the sound of it bouncing as he buried his face into his hands.

He should have just paid to stay in the damn shelter. This was too much. It was too dangerous. It was going to hurt so much when-

Voices sounded outside of his office, coming from the main living areas at first then drawing closer.

He frowned, recognizing Felinus and Brutus speaking Italian, then Snake doing the same. There was an edge to their voices, anger, maybe desperation, but he couldn’t understand the words.

He rubbed at his eyes and made himself sit up with a slow breath. From Dimitri’s call it had sounded like things at the sit down had gone the way Felinus had wanted but by the raised voices something wasn’t right. He thought about going out there to find out but the less he knew, the less he’d have to lie about. Just go back to studying and pretend like you aren’t here. He picked up the red pen to restart his notes again.

The office door opened and Felinus stepped inside.

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