Proven Guilty Boys in Blue 05 - by Mia Watts

Author:Mia Watts [Watts, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Shawn waited up. The oaf had been spiralling downward all week. It hadn’t looked good when he had taken off hours ago. James had chosen to ignore the challenge Shawn had issued in the precinct office. But tonight Shawn would make sure they put their cards on the table. Tonight he’d confront the detective and make him face a few facts.

Like James being gay and getting angry about it didn’t change anything. He heard the front door open. Shawn took the stairs quickly, hitting the bottom floor just as James stumbled into view.

“Hey,” Shawn said. “That’s a spectacular shiner you got there.”

James glowered at him, then winced. He touched his lip when a cut reopened. “Go away.”

“Three sheets already, huh? Just as well. Maybe it’ll numb some of your idiocy,” Shawn said dryly.

“Maybe I should numb your idiocy.”

“That’s quite a come-back. Think of that one all by yourself?” Shawn teased.

“Fuck you.” James’ eyes went wide. “As in yourself. That’s not an offer.”

“Yeah, I got that. It’s generally what’s meant when someone says, fuck you.”

“Good. Glad that’s straight.”

Shawn laughed. “Nice choice of words from someone who isn’t straight.”

“I’m straight. You’re…crooked.”

“I promise you, there is nothing on me the slightest bit crooked.” He smiled but the joke seemed to sail over James’ head.

James wove into the kitchen.

Shawn followed. “Sit down. I’ll make you some coffee.”

James pushed him out of the way. “I’ll make my own goddamn coffee.”

Shawn stood back. “That would be impressive in your current state.”

“I’m an impressive guy.”

“I don’t disagree, but asking for help isn’t horrible either.”

“I don’t need your help,” James snarled. “Your kind of help leads to talk at the station. It fucks up my life pretty good. In fact,” he said, swinging the glass coffee pot in the air wildly, “my life has been fucked up pretty good ever since you showed up.”

“So this is about me?” Shawn asked.

“Not everything is about you.”

“Then it’s about you?”

“Goddamn right it’s about me.”

Shawn settled in. “Awesome. This should be great. Let’s hear it. How have I fucked up your life so badly that getting into a drunken bar brawl makes it all shiny and better?”

“You kissed me in the station. What possessed you to do that? Now the guys are talking about it. That’s my workplace.”

Shawn folded his arms across his chest. “Yeah, I know.”

James swung bleary eyes on him. “I’m not gay.”

“Yeah, you are,” Shawn told him firmly. “You’re hiding it, but it’s all over you.”

“You’re wrong.”

“Am I?” Shawn stalked closer to him, put the coffee pot on the heating element of the machine and turned it on. He redirected his attention back to his room-mate. “I’m a lot of things, but I’m not stupid. I know what it looks like when a man wants me.”

“I don’t want you,” James scoffed.

“Really?”

“Really.”

“Tell me, James. What are the uncontrolled physiological signs of attraction?” Shawn asked.

James dropped his eyes. He reached for a mug to the left of Shawn’s shoulder. “I didn’t have them.”

Shawn caught James’ chin, turning his face to look at him.

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