So, when in DC, lose your freaking mind.
When he got to the office, both he and Gabriel Rothschild, his sneaky, slimy boss, were going to have words.
And hands.
As in he was throwing them in the form of a fist. Someone had gone too far, and now, it was time to set the record straight. If Gabe thought that he’d sit idly by as Ethan was bullied because of his sexuality, or his relationship, he was wrong.
Gene was generally laid back unless a few things were poked.
His man.
His relationship.
His sexuality.
If anyone dared to tread on those three things, it brought out the not-so-cuddly bear in him. It brought out the one that would maul and kill at the blink of an eye.
And he was there.
When he’d arrived inPhillylast night, imagine his horror when he’d gotten off of the flight with Greyson, turned his phone back on, and found that horrifying text from Ethan. It caught him off guard and rattled his cage viciously.
Imagine being happy as a clam on a flight back home because you’d lived and then finding that you were losing half of your heart and soul.
It sucked.
But apparently, there was a mess to clean up in DC thanks to Gabe.
His man was on the run.
Without.
HIM.
Clearly, there had been some miscommunication with Ethan when he’d said, repeatedly to his lover, that they were a couple, team, unit, and family. Because if he believed any of those four things, he would have runTOWARDhim, and not away from him.
So now, he needed to rectify that, too.
While he understood why Ethan had been upset, Gene would be lying if he said it didn’t hurt a hell of a lot to know that he’d been ditched.
Dumped.
Evaded.
Abandoned.
As half of a couple, that didn’t give him a sunshine-y feeling in the pit of his stomach.
In fact, it pissed him off.
The last thing that he wanted to do today was play these kinds of games. His arm was killing him, he was bitchy, and that anger was making it damn difficult to be rational.
What the holy shitfest did a guy have to do to just live his life and do his goddamn job without one of his bosses fucking with his life?
What?
Could someone tell him that?
This was like a nightmare thatNEVERended.
