Undercover Boyfriend by Jacob Z. Flores

Author:Jacob Z. Flores [Flores, Jacob Z.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63477-150-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

LUKE managed to get Marty into the passenger seat of the car. Although he had protested and claimed that he could drive, there was no way Luke was going to let Marty get behind the wheel of a car after what he just went through.

They hadn’t survived an attack by a cartel hitman to die in a car accident.

When Luke slid into the driver’s seat and started the engine, Marty’s dam broke again, and the emotions he’d held back earlier spilled over the walls. Luke grabbed Marty’s hand and squeezed it, reminding him that Luke was there. He hoped it gave Marty the comfort it gave him.

Comfort was exactly what he’d needed when he walked into the bathroom and saw Marty held at knifepoint. A tidal wave of fear had crashed upon Luke. He hadn’t felt like that since the night that had ended his childhood and ripped his parents from his life.

Fortunately, he had training to fall back on. When it kicked in, he switched to autopilot and did what he had to do in order to make sure Marty was safe.

“I’m sorry for being such a baby,” Marty choked out.

Luke ran his fingers through Marty’s hair. “You’re not being a baby. You’re being human.” He was actually amazed Marty hadn’t completely lost it sooner. It wasn’t like Marty’s life was chock-full of danger the way Luke’s had been for as long as he could remember.

Marty was innocent and softer, and Luke had to admit, he liked that about Marty. It reminded Luke that good people still walked the earth, and after everything he’d seen in his life, he needed to be reminded of that every once in a while.

“Are you going to be okay?” he asked after Marty blew his nose on an old Starbucks napkin he’d found in the console.

“I think so.”

“Think you can answer some questions for me?”

Marty blew his nose again and nodded.

“Why would the cartel be coming after you?” he asked.

Marty turned in the seat and stared at him. He reminded Luke of a dog that had been beaten by its owner one too many times. “I have no clue,” Marty replied with a sniffle. His big, sad eyes gazed down at his hands, which fidgeted in his lap.

Luke had questioned his share of witnesses who had been unlucky enough to find themselves in the crosshairs of a cartel assassin, and he watched as what he’d seen dozens of times before started happening to Marty.

His lips and chin trembled. He hugged himself as if he were sitting in the middle of a winter storm instead of a blistering south Texas summer, and his tanned skin lost all its color, turning an ashy white. The only difference this time was with Luke. He had never wanted to take one of those innocent people in his arms the way he wanted to hold Marty right now.

“I’ve never seen that guy you… um, took care of before today,” Marty muttered.

This didn’t make a damn bit of sense.

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