Confessions of a Wild Heart by Kade Boehme

Author:Kade Boehme [Boehme, Kade]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2015-07-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

GETTING off soon, why? Jase smiled at the text message, doing his best not to respond as his inner fourteen-year-old.

Stop thinking dirty, gringo. Jase laughed aloud when he read that.

Busted. Ase had him dead to rights. He whipped his squad car into the parking lot of the sheriff’s department. He shot off another quick text as he headed inside and made his way to his desk to finish filing his citations for the afternoon. Jase and Ase had struck up a tentative friendship in the few weeks since Ase’d stayed over.

They carefully avoided any talk of their past relationship, and Ase was still kind of a steel trap about his life over the last four years. A story about his ex, Anthony, would pop out here and there; sometimes he’d talk about things from San Diego or even Munich that he missed. But they were careful. More careful than Jase would like, but he didn’t want to get his hopes up. He enjoyed Ase’s banter and company. The man hadn’t exactly done a one-eighty. He could still be a straight up dickhead, but he didn’t have the same animosity he’d had when they’d first met up again in Abernathy.

Ase’d helped Jase change the oil in his truck, and Jase had helped Ase study for some big medical board exam he had coming up. He’d played guinea pig, not study-buddy.

Ase seemed to be well-liked by the staff, even if he was a bit standoffish to them. The man was an enigma. Jase was still so shell-shocked by the man’s re-emergence in his life that, between the surprise, his mother coming home, and their work schedules, he hadn’t had much time to process how he felt other than glad to have Ase around.

He’d pulled out some of the old e-mails he’d sworn long ago to never look at again, and poured over them. He cringed every once in a while when he’d read how smitten they were with one another. It’d only been four years, but, God, did their twenty-one and twenty-three-year old selves sound so much younger. And, he was saddened to note, they sounded much less jaded.

They also had the beginnings of a decent friendship. Nothing deep, but something tentative and hopeful that they weren’t each lost to the ether. Until they had been.

There were quiet moments, when they’d be having lunch, and Jase would be merrily chatting about his day, that Ase would seem lost in himself. Jase wondered what had happened in those four years to dampen the shine of that young man who’d chased a stranger, camera and heart in hand.

Jase most decidedly did not dwell on it. If Ase wanted to talk about it, he would. If not, he wouldn’t. They didn’t owe each other anything. There was plenty you didn’t share with friends. Even if this felt like a little more than that. Denying the chemistry was hard, but if that’s what it took that’s what he’d do. He wouldn’t squander this time, even if he was being a pansy.

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