The Doctor's Secret (Copper Point Medical Book 1) by Heidi Cullinan

Author:Heidi Cullinan [Cullinan, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781640808546
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-04-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

HONG-WEI WASN’T letting Simon change his mind.

Breaking the kiss for a moment, he kept one arm around Simon as he reached over the half wall to the showerhead next door, standing on tiptoe to turn the spray on full blast. Then he resumed kissing Simon, touching his face, running his hands over his body, pressing his knee between his legs to feel both the surrender of his muscles and the delicious heaviness of his desire.

In the other room, the footsteps stopped and the knob rattled. “Ah. Oh well. I suppose we’ll catch him on Monday.”

Hong-Wei took Simon’s face in both hands, drawing slow, drugging kisses from his lips until they heard the door to the locker room close once more.

Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to stay here after all. Simon had relaxed, had stopped fighting this—that was enough. He didn’t really want to make love to Simon in a shower anyway. Pulling away far enough to press a kiss to Simon’s nose, Hong-Wei stretched once again over the wall to turn off the water, then unlocked the door to the showers. “Come home with me.”

He loved the way Simon clung absently to him. “How do we get out of the hospital? How do we leave the locker rooms?”

“You go first. Walk to the parking lot, then wait on the far side of the tall hedges. I’ll come out in a few minutes.”

Simon nodded, still leaning on him. “I need to tell Owen and Jared where I’m going. They think I’m waiting for a ride.”

Smiling, Hong-Wei brushed his lips against Simon’s ear. “Who do you think told me where you were?”

He worried Simon would fret, but it seemed when Simon let go, he let go. After one last kiss at the door, Simon exited the locker room without looking back, moving down the halls toward the parking lot. Once he was gone, Hong-Wei waited.

It was like being in school, though he’d never lingered for a lovers’ tryst. He’d hidden in the locker room to escape his fellow students. When he’d first arrived from Taiwan, the bullying had been subtle but scary since he hadn’t known anyone, and his English had been so poor. They goaded him into saying things they knew he’d pronounce incorrectly, and several boys had made a game of teaching him dirty or crude usage to get him in trouble. They’d laughed at the way he called his instructors “teacher” instead of Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So, even though that was the way it was done in Taiwan.

Hong-Wei had learned to pick up on when his fellow students meant to lead him into trouble—“Jack, Jack, where are you, Jack? We want to talk to you…”—and he’d hide in the bathroom, or the locker room, or the janitor’s closet. He went through a phase where he’d skip whole periods, copying the assignment from the board, taking his homework with him, sneaking back to turn it in. He’d steal out from his hiding spaces and erase his name from the attendance slips in the hall, then seek refuge in his private kingdom and work in peace.

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