บท 49: Chapter 49

We were going to do this the hard way. Fine. I gritted my teeth. “What we have between us is too good to be tossed aside on a whim.”

He frowned. He wasn’t expecting me to challenge him? I drew in a breath, and then blew it out.

“Why did you run, Mark?”

Of course he denied it, but who was he trying to kid? He had done an outstanding imitation of Jesse Owens.

“Was it…Was it because I fucked you?”

“Shit.” He scrabbled in the first-aid kit. “I know I had iodine in here.”

I sighed. He was going to ignore the elephant in the room. “This?” I had removed thebrown bottle when I’d been searching for something to protect the wounds. “Sit down, Mark.”

He sat. I wished I could find a way to make him obey me so readily all the time.

And I found I couldn’t ignore the elephant. “I thought you enjoyed it.” I certainly had, but if he hadn’t, if I’d overstepped….

“I did. That’s why—” But he didn’t continue, and I was left without a clue as to where he would have gone with that.