He’d fallen in love with someone who didn’t understand him.
Who didn’t trust him.
That made him gun-shy for the rest of his life. Never understanding Graham’s behavior…
It wasn’t like he was out joining a carnival just for shits and giggles.
No.
This was about saving them both from poverty, and all it would take was some trust.
No one liked a long-distance relationship, but he was an honorable man.
He’d never cheat.
How did the man not know that he was leaving for a good reason?
How did he not put the clues together and figure out that he’d taken on a duty that he couldn’t talk about?
HOW?
Instead, he had to stand there and listen to the vitriol as Graham raged at him for leaving him.
Six months.
All he had to do was trust him for those six months, and follow.
If he did, everything would have been fine.
If he trusted him, then, he would have seen that he was serving his country in another way.
Michael had become an archangel and had been placed on Blackhawk duty.
Had he just trusted him…instead of accusing him of bailing on him, and not loving him enough, Graham would have figured it out.
But that never happened.
All Michael knew was that he loved Graham more than the man would ever know. He loved Graham to that day, and the few men he’d tried to match up with had been disappointing.
Riley had come the closest to those feelings he had for Graham, and that was why he’d proposed to him. Michael had been afraid of losing that last chance.
He’d found someone who could be his other half most of the time.
They made dinner together.
They talked about their worlds.
Unfortunately for Michael, he had been burned twice because eventually, he’d trusted Riley too.
After years of being suspicious of everyone, and uber-protective of his life, he let another man in, and once more he’d blindsided him.
No.
He broke him.
What Graham, the love of his life had blown up, and had been rebuilt over time, Riley, his fiancé, had decimated with betrayal.
The.
