Ego and Enmity by J.g. King

Author:J.g. King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, mm, gay romance, romance sexy, lgbtq romance, gay romance mm
Publisher: Jeanette Battista

Chapter Sixteen

Damen sat in his office and brooded. The look on Ig's face when he'd called him Iggy—well, Damen had never seen an expression so raw in his entire life. Ig looked like Damen had reached into his chest and pulled out his heart and showed it to him. Ig never had a problem when Damen had called him Iggy before; sure, the guy hadn't liked it much, but Damen had assumed it was because the nickname sounded silly. Now he wondered if there wasn't more going on there.

He was positive that he'd managed to make an ass out of himself. Again. It was becoming a habit where Ig was concerned.

Still, Damen knew he was missing something, some critical piece that would allow him to solve the puzzle that was Ig Stormare, and maybe stop putting his foot in it every five minutes.

He didn’t know, but there was someone who did.

Damen practically stomped down the hall towards Aden's office. He didn't worry about arranging anything with Aden’s assistant—Ig seemed to handle most of the critical business anyway. If anything happened to Ig, Damen was pretty sure the company would self-destruct.

He knocked on Aden's door and received a laconic, “Come in.”

Aden was hunched over his laptop, a pen clasped between his teeth. His eyebrows rose when he saw Damen at his door. Damen's gaze flicked down to the papers littering Aden's desk and saw that it was a series of financials, Ig's neat handwriting decorating sticky notes affixed to numerous pages. Damen had always thought Aden just napped all day in his office.

“We need to talk.”

Aden frowned but beckoned Damen inside. Damen shut the door and took one of the chairs in front of Aden's desk. Aden gathered all the papers together into one stack to set aside before he turned the full force of his attention on Damen.

“What is it?” The lazy drawl was gone from his voice. Damen realized how much of it had been a put on. Between the laser-like focus of Aden's intensely blue eyes and the shrewdness that lurked behind them, Damen realized just how good Aden's uncaring persona really was. His guts churned as he readied himself to ask the question that had been bothering him.

“I need to know what happened between Ig and Caleb.” Damen didn't feel inclined to pull any punches, and he didn't think Aden would respond well if he tried.

Aden's blue eyes narrowed, his face going tight and hard. The hands planted on the desk went white with the force Aden applied as he leaned forward. “That's not your business.”

It was something bad. Damen had suspected as much. He wasn't about to back down now though, not before he got the answers he needed. “If I thought Ig would tell me himself, I'd ask him. But I get the feeling he won't. And I could go hunting for something among the people that work here, but I'd rather not do that either because I know he hates people gossiping about him. You're his best friend.

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