Chapter Four
The Reservation
Friday Afternoon
Same Time
The annoying hunt for his lover continued, and after the flight, which was mercifully fast with zero delays, Gene was ready to find his man and figure out how to fix this. Oh, and he knew it wasn’t going to be easy.
Nothing with Ethan was, but to him, that made it even better. If he wanted an easy relationship, he could have continued with the one-night stands.
Instead, he chose permeance.
He chose a commitment.
The heart chose who it chose for a reason. With his lover, his soulmate, he knew it was meant to be.
Now, he had to convince Ethan, who was likely up in his feels, big-time, that he had to return with him. That he had to face life and not hide from it.
Gene didn’t know if he’d be able to do it, or how far-gone Ethan was going to be. He’d be lying if he said he wasn’t scared stupid that Ethan would do something…reckless.
That rode him hard, as he’d been trapped on a plane with no way to contact him for six hours.
Only, Gene would fight.
As most people knew, with the joys of the relationship came the tribulations.
This was a bump in the road.
AN ANNOYING ONE.
The bottom line was that he’d taken a chance with someone so out of his league, who had a propensity to run, that he knew he would need to work for it.
And he did.
Was he still angry that Ethan ran away instead of to him?
Yes.
Was he going to chase his man down to find him and protect him during this storm?
Again, yes.
Ultimately, that was his job.
As his partner in the FBI, and in life, his one job that supersedes all other jobs was to be there when life got too hard for his man to handle.
It happened to the best of them.
While angry, Gene had to remember that this could be far worse.
After what happened to Ethan with David Neives, in the grand scheme of things, this was nothing. If he could pull him from the spiral, they’d fix it.
Or fight it to the end.
Gene wasn’t a quitter, and he refused to give up on the man he loved. You didn’t bail on love.
You dug in and kept doing battle.
