Rented Heart by Garrett Leigh

Author:Garrett Leigh [Leigh, Garrett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2016-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

A lifetime seemed to pass before Zac relented and stuffed the money back in his pocket. Liam blew out a long sigh, though the relief was laced with an emotion he couldn’t quite name. There was no doubt in his mind that Zac needed the money, but knowing next to nothing about why he needed it so badly was still unnerving, especially with Zac’s forbidden kiss still bruising his lips.

Liam swallowed and stepped back, trying to put some much-needed distance between them, and this time Zac let him be, his own gaze distant and lost.

“I should go,” Liam said.

“Why?”

Liam shrugged. “Are you working tonight?”

“I have to. You gave me a lot of money, but rent, electric, gas, water . . . there’s so much to pay for.” The flash of guilt in Zac’s face broke Liam’s heart, and he couldn’t live with the shame he saw next. He had his own cross to bear, but his woes weren’t Zac’s.

He pulled Zac close, wrapping him in the kind of embrace he’d never thought he’d find again, kissing Zac’s hair and breathing him in. “I’m gonna go before this gets out of hand. I can call you later, though, if you like?”

Zac blinked and looked around him, peering beyond Liam to the block of flats behind him. “I hadn’t even realised we were home.”

Liam forced a smile. Zac had been away with the fairies for most of the day, and it wasn’t hard to see that he hadn’t slept much recently. Unless it’s something else. But Liam killed the thought before it took hold. Society taught that prostitution and drugs came hand in hand, but he’d yet to see much in Zac that led him to believe that was true. “Do you need anything before I go?”

Zac shook his head. “You’ll call me later?”

“If you want me to.”

“I do.”

It was all he needed to say. Liam held Zac a little tighter, then let him go. He desperately wanted to kiss Zac again, kiss him like Zac had kissed him that first time, and the second, brutal and hard . . . then slow and sweet, stealing Liam’s breath with every brush of his lips and sweep of his tongue.

Leaving felt so fucking wrong. But he had to. His brain was about to explode, and the last year had taught him that he was better off alone when shit like that went down.

He left Zac by the roadside and drove away, forcing himself not to glance back as his heart began a stampeding tattoo in his chest, throbbing up his throat and into his ears. He’d known today would be tough: visiting the factory, facing all the people who’d worked so hard for them—for Cory—to make their dreams a reality. Just taking Hettie further than Hunstanton had felt like a nosedive into the past, until Zac had slid into the van with his heavy eyes and grubby jeans, looking for all the world like he’d just rolled in from a big night out.

Perhaps he had.

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