“Uh, I do, but they’re homophobic as fuck. Trust and believe you don’t want to deal with them. I don’t want to deal with them,” he admitted.
Jimmy sighed.
“Shit. I have terrible luck.”
“Before Ethan, he felt the same way.
While they couldn’t get married for a while, they could wear their rings as a vow.
That was the plan.
After nearly dying, Gene wanted to start living. They both deserved that.
Taking the wine, he headed back to the table, where Ethan was making notes.
“Profile?” Gene asked as he saw Ethan staring off into space. “Or are you really watching the media make a spectacle?”
Blackhawk nodded.
“Definitely profile. In fact, I’m tweaking it. I’m trying to give us a better percentage when it comes to the gender of this person. I just know that he or she has that DID issue. I can feel it in my balls.”
Gene pushed the wine toward his man.
“Sure that’s not lust?” he asked.
It caught Blackhawk off guard, and Ethan laughed.
“It’s definitely lust. Maybe I should have said gut,” he admitted.
Gene just grinned.
His gut had butterflies whenever he saw this man.
When Gene felt Ethan’s feet tangle with his own under the table, those butterflies kicked up.
It was cozy in their booth, eating their steaks as the world went by around them. There was no place he’d rather be than with Ethan.
“Do you think the Crotch Goblin is staying out of trouble?” Gene asked Ethan.
The man snorted.
“Well, that we haven’t gotten a call from the Puerto Rico police, or him, I’m going to say he’s taking in the sights and watching dolphins.”
Oh, probably.
“Think he got back on the horse?” he asked, eating the rest of Ethan’s onion rings that he didn’t finish with his steak.
His man contemplated it.
“Knowing Corbin? Absolutely not. I’m sure he’s taking baby steps back to the norm. I fully expect him to be terrified for a good few months yet. He’s not that far off the assault. I know if someone did that to me, it would take me a long time to feel safe again.”
Gene didn’t want to think about it.
David Neives had done his damage, and if there was a God in heaven, the man would be found dead in a ditch somewhere. He took care of the man who made Corbin’s assault possible, but he couldn’t get his revenge for Ethan.
Not yet.
One day, he would.
