Wound Tight (Made in Jersey #4) by Tessa Bailey

Author:Tessa Bailey [Bailey, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance; romance; Brazen; Entangled; Tessa Bailey; Made in Jersey; Jersey; Across the tracks; opposites attract; workplace romance; boss/employee; bait and switch; m/m; gay; lbg; lbgt; gay romance; erotic; erotic romance; sexy
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Brazen)
Published: 2016-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Renner was a senior in college when he had his heart shattered.

As an adult, he could look back and laugh. There was never a ring of truth to the laughter, however, because the impact had been deep. Deep enough to rearrange the frozen tundra of his emotions. Renner’s father was a cold, calculating asshole, but he and Renner had somehow managed to retain a decent relationship. There had been a few years of silence after his father treated Samantha poorly in the divorce from her mother, but they shared business news when they had time. There was a definite strain now, but that was par for the course with two men who rarely delved below another person’s surface.

Until Renner had met Kieran, the rowing team captain who would eventually ditch him for a teammate, Renner had been happy with short acquaintances. Usually older men with no affiliation with the university he attended, although there had been one ill-advised evening with a professor during sophomore year. The way he’d operated with men had been very similar to how his father dealt with women. Quick and detached.

So he’d been shocked when one night hadn’t been enough with Kieran. Shocked and more than a touch apprehensive. How did one proceed in asking for a second date? What would it be like when their appetite for sex wasn’t so urgent? Turned out, he didn’t have anything to worry about. Or so he’d thought. Renner and Kieran had fallen into a routine of classes, work, nights in the city, mornings in bed, weekends out of town. Renner had even met Kieran’s mother.

Renner had bought a ring. Christ, how embarrassing. He’d had a whole proposal worked out. A plan to get married in Vermont. The simple piece of jewelry had been burning a hole in his pocket the night Kieran broke it off. At the same coffee shop where they’d met. While the new boyfriend had waited at a corner table, buried in the shadows.

Fifteen years later, Renner could still remember that sinking feeling he’d had from the moment Kieran walked into the place. How the sensation had grown more and more ugly until he’d been sure he would vomit. And that was before his suspicions were confirmed. After that, the ugliness had just poured out, in the form of backhanded insults and the ruination of every memory they’d created together.

To this day, the ugliness continued to pour out, apparently, if this afternoon with Milo was any sort of proof. Hell, he’d fucked up. In more ways than one. First, he’d forgotten the lesson he’d learned in college, letting his guard drop and all but begging Milo to burn him. While the reminder had still glowed hot, he’d reverted back to his bad habit of striking back at the other man where it hurt. Thinking of the way Milo had withdrawn, like he’d been cracked in the jaw by a baseball bat, was the reason Renner had been sitting at his kitchen table for an hour without moving.

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