What.
Ethan Blackhawk didn’t have to stressDamascus. That was his past. What he had to stress was the present, and how to show up for his partner.
That was all that mattered to him.
“Okay, you can look,” he said, as he set Gene’s arm free, and he pulled it into the shower.
When he flipped his arm over, where his wrist was covered in cast, he saw the bright red heart there.
In it, there were initials.
‘E + G
Forever.’
Immediately, his heart kicked hard in his chest. That one moment was the sweetest, most perfect thing ever.
“I promise,” Ethan said from the other side of the curtain. “You never have to wonder about that. It’s a vow from me to you. When you get the cast off, and it’s gone, I’ll find another way to make another vow.”
At his words, tears filled Gene’s eyes.
Yeah, he was done worrying. Ethan had made a mistake running, and he was trying to get forgiveness for that act. Gene refused to make him suffer for it.
Life was too short.
Reaching out, he grabbed Ethan by the arm and yanked him into the shower with all of his clothes on.
Blackhawk gasped and then was pulled against Gene.
He said two words, and they were the most powerful words he could whisper.
“Show me.”
And Blackhawk did.
Chapter Fifteen
In Town
Shopping
Saturday Mid-Day
This day was absolutely wild. Had anyone told Dannie that he would be shopping for the two Feds, he would have laughed, but that was how desperate he was to take part in this investigation.
Despite what the two Feds might think, he wanted to protect and serve his community, and if he had to buy underwear and clothing for the men, so be it.
It was a small price to pay in order to stay connected to this case. For him, it was personal. Someone was hurting people in his town, and as someone who had a girlfriend here, the idea that she might be next…
It freaked him out.
So, he had to be part of this as his way of keeping her safe.
Now, that being said, helping out was most definitely going to be problematic.
How?
Well, like now as his phone began ringing.
