Question Mark by S.E. Culpepper

Author:S.E. Culpepper [Culpepper, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
ISBN: 9781468047745
Published: 2012-03-07T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

A quick rap on the door had Christian bracing himself for what was certain to be an awful afternoon. He pushed away from his desk and stood up to meet his smiling girlfriend, and no matter that he tried, he couldn’t bring himself to return her cheery expression. His mood was more in the land of dreary and pitiful.

Her initial gush of enthusiasm faltered the same way he’d seen the past few weeks since he returned from Bora Bora. He’d left that island with a lot of decisions to make that he once intended to ignore for the duration of his life. And Mark was at the root of it all. Mark and the too goddamned vivid memory of Kevin.

“Hey, Kat.”

She accepted his peck on the cheek and pushed past him into one of two chairs in front of his desk. She dropped her purse on the floor and clasped her hands, clearly waiting for a clue as to why he wanted to see her in the middle of the day. They never met like this—mostly because he’d made it a habit of keeping her at arm’s length. He had no idea why she stayed with him. She didn’t have much reason to.

“So… I’m here as requested,” she almost smiled, her expression flickering back and forth between annoyed and concerned.

Christian closed his office door with a click and moved to lean against the desk in front of her. No touching. No sir. He didn’t know how to carry himself. Delivering bad news wasn’t his strong suit. He was the carefree guy. Not the take-your-medicine-and-deal-with-it guy. Everything about him, clear down to his job as a Primary Event Manager with Sports Unlimited was about spontaneity and fun. He traveled a lot, managing things like the X-Games, cheer and fitness competitions, road races, triathlons…and on and on. When they needed a guy to get the crowds going, talk to sponsors—whatever—they sent Christian in.

But this…he was completely out of his element. This was major. Significant. He was about to really hurt someone he cared about.

Christian ran a hand through his hair and bit down on his lip, stalling until Kat shifted impatiently. He started yammering. “You ever find yourself in one of those situations like, I don’t know, where you realize that everything seems right, maybe even perfect, but there’s just something that refuses to fit, or click, or whatever?”

Kat stared at him for a seriously long minute and sank back in the chair. She didn’t say anything and his jaw felt the only solution was to keep going with the mish-mash talk.

“I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I went away... Actually I spent most of my time in Bora Bora dragging around all this heavy crap weighing on me. I—”

“You’ve been different,” Kat interrupted, her eyes already moist, which seemed to irritate her. He wanted to escape the room and run until he couldn’t move at all. “I knew something was going on, but I didn’t know how to talk to you about it.

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