Scrambling (Out in the NFL Book 1) by Valentine Lex

Author:Valentine, Lex [Valentine, Lex]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Lexicon Publishing
Published: 2020-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Reed couldn’t remember ever having been to a funeral. He didn’t want to go to one now. Luckily, the funeral director explained that he didn’t have to have a funeral for Len if he didn’t want to. Funerals were for the living. They gave those left behind an opportunity to celebrate the life of the person who died and brought closure to those who needed it.

Closure didn’t even begin to cover what Reed needed.

He needed to leave behind the sense that he’d lived a lie for the past six years. He needed to feel free and unencumbered. He needed to live his life for himself. And he wanted to leave behind the rumors and speculation of the press that currently dogged his footsteps. He just wanted to play football.

With the funeral director’s words ringing in his ears, he arranged to have Len cremated without fanfare, without a funeral or memorial service, without the press finding out anything. They would have Len’s ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Orange County near his father’s flagship hotel, Sterling Inn Spa and Resort. Reed figured Len’s father would have appreciated that even if Len himself wouldn’t have. Len had hated the hotels that had provided the funds for his hedonistic lifestyle. And now the hotels belonged to Reed.

Once he’d completed the final arrangements for Len, Reed drove back to the house in Brentwood. He passed through the small crowd of press outside the gates, ignoring them completely. Inside the house, he packed for the Stars’ next game which was in Denver.

The coach and Darcy had told him to take some time off, but Reed couldn’t. He needed to play. He also needed to be with Evan whom he hadn’t seen since the morning Len died.

With a shudder, Reed flopped down on his bed. The night he’d spent with Evan weighed heavily on his mind, the memories bittersweet and so hot they would melt an iceberg. It had been everything he’d ever dreamed of, and then some. Being with Evan had elevated sex to a level Reed hadn’t experienced before, and he wanted more. But he was afraid. Evan had been strangely silent and subdued since that night, and Reed feared Evan regretted what had happened between them. Reed didn’t regret one moment even though he’d felt a measure of guilt over being so happy with Evan while Len was so ill. He also worried that his desperate need for Evan’s touch had made his lover feel he would have done anything to get the man into bed. After what Len had done to him, he would never resort to such means to be with Evan, but he had no idea what Evan thought.

Cock aching at the memory of what Evan had done to him that night, Reed reached for his phone and called his best friend.

“Hello?”

A laughing voice that was not Evan’s answered, and Reed stiffened.

“Where’s Evan?”

A beat of silence followed his words; then he recognized the deep, refined tones of Bryce Richardson’s voice.

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