It's Always Been You by Max Hudson

Author:Max Hudson [Hudson, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Owen

My interview the other day went better than expected. The hospital I’d interviewed with was looking for a long-term interpreter. I had no plans to be back in Atlanta for long and I told them so. But they loved what they saw in me and were convinced that they’d be able to change my mind and keep me on permanently. I’d laughed and told them I’d take the job. The pay was amazing and the job came with great benefits. It was a great start to being back home.

We got our first emails from Mom and Dad a few days after they’d left. It had warmed my heart to see their faces bright with joy. I couldn’t think of two people more deserving of this month away than my parents.

I was staying at their place while they were gone and figured I’d look for my own place for while I was in town. I was likely going to have to find something closer to the hospital because the commute was going to be a drag. I knew Benji lived in the city, not too far from his tattoo shop and figured I could ask him about the area. I hadn’t spoken to him since our heart to heart and I thought looking for apartments would be a good enough reason to contact him. Not that I was actively looking for reasons to talk to Benji. I hadn’t thought of him at all since the lunch. Okay, that was a lie. A big fat lie. All I’d been able to do was think about Benji.

I hadn’t been lying when I told him I wanted us to move forward. I just left out the fact that even after eight years, I wasn’t over him. Sure, I’d finally admitted I’d had feelings for him back then but then I’d alluded that I’d gotten over them. It was a big fat lie. I still wanted Benji in the worst way. I still thought he was the most gorgeous person I’d ever laid eyes on and I still wanted him all to myself. People like Benji were one in a million.

You rarely met people who were just good to their core. I knew that Benji donated a lot of the shops proceeds to various charities. It wasn’t something that was public knowledge because Benji wasn’t the sort of guy who needed recognition. I’d heard it from Connor who’d sounded so damn proud. Benji was just an all-around great person, which was why I was stunned when Dad had casually mentioned the last time they’d come to visit, that Benji was single. Now that I knew he knew about what happened between Benji and me, I was starting to think it wasn’t very subtle at all.

So, no, I wasn’t over Benji, but I couldn’t let him know that.

I was just getting out of the shower when my phone buzzed on the dresser. I checked it and found a message from Connor. He was driving back to Florida in the morning and wanted to meet up for dinner.

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