Training Ryan by Tatum Throne

Author:Tatum Throne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Sunlight eased in through the windows like someone sneaking back into the house after a wild night of partying. Soft cotton sheets rested beneath Ryan’s head. He heard Trent’s steady breathing in his ear. There wasn’t a good time to tell Trent the secret about his past, but Ryan knew he had to. It was time that they had the talk that came with every new relationship. This one involved more than the usual, I like you and you like me, so let’s fuck. This involved a list of reasons why they couldn’t be together. Ryan should’ve told Trent the moment they got together, but he couldn’t. He couldn’t lie to Trent. He loved him.

The truth hit him hard. He loved Trent for so long but had been too afraid to take that next step. He was too afraid of everything falling apart now that he had everything he’d always wanted. Ryan rolled over, looking at Trent’s chest. The big white bandages were no longer on his shoulder. They were now covered with large rectangular Band-Aids. Trent’s eyes cracked open. Trent smiled when their eyes met, but he quickly frowned.

Ryan smoothed his hand over the scars on Trent’s chest. “How did you get these scars?”

Trent grinned. “I was a rowdy teenager. This one was a bike accident. I got this one running into a fence. There had been a nail sticking out of the fence, and it just sliced through. A few of these were from SWAT training.”

Their eyes met.

“What’s wrong?” Trent asked.

Training Ryan

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“I have something you need to know about me,” Ryan said as he signed.

Trent raised a brow as he sat up on his elbow. There was no easy way to tell Trent the truth. He had to know.

Ryan’s hands were steady as he signed. “I was sick with…cancer.

Four years ago.”

“You’re okay now?” Trent asked.

Ryan hesitated for a second. “Yes, but that could change…five, ten, twenty years from now.”

“Or you could be fine?”

Ryan shook his head and ran his hand through his hair. “I can’t ask you to live this life or burden you.”

He couldn’t bring himself to tell him that he had recovered from cancer, but there was a good chance it could come back this year, next year, or maybe even five years from now.

Some couldn’t deal with having a relationship once they knew he had once had lymphoma. Facing death often put the brakes on fast.

Trent sat up, alarm going through his eyes. “What are you saying?” Trent asked.

Ryan lifted his hands and said, “I don’t think we should do this again.”

“I could get hit by a meteor falling from the sky tomorrow. It doesn’t mean we should stop seeing each other.”

Ryan signed, “Trent, be reasonable.”

“Ryan…”

Ryan signed as he spoke. “I have doctor visits, tests, scans, biopsies, and lab results to wait for. It will never end. Never.”

“You’re trapped by your circumstance. I get that,” Trent said.

Ryan ran a hand through his dark hair and down over his five o’clock shadow. Tears misted Ryan’s eyes.

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