Taken by Helenkay Dimon

Author:Helenkay Dimon [Dimon, HelenKay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780698198647
Google: lAsbBQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00OZ0TL6U
Barnesnoble: B00OZ0TL6U
Goodreads: 24360904
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

The ringing wouldn’t stop. Two hours after the make-up sex, Eli stepped into the bathroom. Right as the door closed, Wade heard the faint sound. At first he ignored it, convinced it was nothing more than some kind of offshoot from his post-sex haze.

The sound stopped, but then it started again. Wade sat up in bed, letting the sheet fall to his waist as he tried to pinpoint the direction of the noise. Definitely a phone, and not his. Not one he recognized either, and he heard Eli’s all the time, because working for Bast, being the right-hand man to and an investigator for a well-known lawyer with an expertise for making serious and sometimes secretive problems go away, meant being on call almost all the time.

Wade threw the sheet off and walked across the bedroom to the doorway, not bothering to get dressed because what was the point? There wasn’t any part of him that Eli hadn’t touched and tasted. They’d passed the shy phase long ago, though he didn’t remember ever having that issue with Eli.

Wade flicked on a light by the couch. Abandoned clothes were strewn across the floor. Eli’s shirt there. His shoes there. Stripping Eli out of his clothes was one of Wade’s favorite things, and he did it often.

The ringing stopped again.

This time a buzzing started. Wade picked up Eli’s pants, felt around the pockets and found his cell in about two seconds. Looking at the screen, Wade could see notifications about messages from Bast and other work-related things but no recent missed calls.

He tried to remember the security code so he could do a deeper search. Eli had told him but . . . The ringing started again. And not from the phone in his hand. This came from somewhere else.

Wade’s bare feet squeaked against the hardwood floor as he spun around in a circle, trying to track the sound before it stopped again. The gym bag. The one Eli carried because he liked to fit in a workout at lunch or after work, before Wade got off for the night. He squatted and undid the zipper. The ringing cut off, but this was it.

He shifted the contents around, ignoring Eli’s sneakers and still damp workout shorts. There, at the bottom, a black phone. Not expensive and not familiar. Wade read line after line of missed call notices on the small screen. No names were referenced and the lock code Eli usually used didn’t work.

Wade couldn’t move. He’d dealt with Eli hiding from who he was and from all he’d lived through before they met. But this blew well past those issues. This was about him hiding a part of his life as it played out now, and Wade would not fucking tolerate that.

“What are you doing?” Eli’s voice rang out from the doorway to the bedroom.

Funny, but that was the same question running through Wade’s head. He didn’t play games or run around the topic, hoping Eli would come clean on this own.

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