Where There's Smoke by L.A. Witt

Author:L.A. Witt [Witt, L.A.]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Anthony

Today’s event, a visit to a couple of wineries, would be low-key and low-stress. As low-key and low-stress as any event could be, anyway. Invariably, necessary people were late and necessary equipment failed to function, so by ten thirty, I was ready to start committing felonies.

At eleven thirty, Jesse and Ranya arrived. God bless the man, he was always on fucking time. Whether it was because Ranya cracked the whip and kept after

him, or—and I strongly suspected this was the case—that was just the way he was, Jesse never showed up late unless it was because of circumstances beyond his

control. After some of the candidates I’d worked with in the past, I was more than a little appreciative of chronic punctuality. Even if his presence did do things to my

blood pressure that even running his campaign couldn’t do.

And goddamn, he looked good. Real good. Some guys just didn’t wear khakis wel, but Jesse certainly did. Then again, I supposed there wasn’t much he couldn’t wear wel. He’d roled his dark blue sleeves to just below his elbows, which was not only a flawlessly casual look for this event, but was also one of my

favorite looks on a man. Something about it did me in every damned time. Laid-back but dignified. Giving enough of a fuck to dress appropriately, but not too uptight to

relax a little.

But while Jesse was dressed to walk the line between relaxed and not, the tension in his bunched shoulders and taut expression was palpable from across the

crowded parking lot. When his eyes darted toward me, that tension went up exponentialy in the instant before he broke eye contact in favor of returning his attention to

a conversation with Roger.

That’s a bad sign.

I pawned a few responsibilities off on some staffers, freeing me up to slip through the crowd to him. When I was nearly within arm’s reach, Jesse confirmed my

suspicion that his tension had everything to do with me: as soon as our eyes met, his spine stiffened, and he puled in a long breath.

Definitely a bad sign.

“You al right?” I asked.

He chewed his lip, and my heart beat faster. Was that regret I sensed?

“A few too many while we celebrated last night?” Roger asked, grinning as he playfuly elbowed his nephew.

Jesse laughed drily. “Yeah, something like that.”

His eyes flicked toward me, and my heart dropped.

“You, um…” I paused, glancing at Roger. To Jesse I said, “You going to be okay today?”

“I’l be fine,” he said with a shrug. “Listen, it’s…” He also glanced at his uncle before continuing. “It’s about Simone.”

Nerves tangled beneath my rib cage. “Oh?”

“Yeah. There’s an article going around right now that’s realy got her upset,” he said. “And I don’t blame her. That was some below-the-belt shit.”

“Is that…” I shifted my weight, glancing at Roger before looking back at Jesse. “Is that all that’s bothering her? I mean, just the article, or the rest of the campaign? Or…?” Don’t make me say it.

“It’s al she’l admit to,” he said, avoiding my eyes.

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