“I will learn how to be what you need, and maybe in the process, I’ll find myself again. At least I’ll be trying to participate instead of saying I can’t do it and never know if I can. Who knows? All I do know is that losing you isn’t an option. I thought I lost you and it hurt so much. Just bear with me as I try all this out, and learn how to be the Top you need. What I can give youis an honest attempt to make it happen, and then, we go from there.”
Will hugged him.
While he’d give up his sex life, just the fact that Corbin was trying…it changed everything.
Partnerships were fifty-fifty, and he was making the effort.
“We’ll see where it goes. Besides, I’m going to ask really annoying questions to both Gene and Ethan, and they’re going to feel guilty and answer.”
Gene laughed.
Oh, he was wrong on that.
“I won’t feel guilty about answering—especially for shoving your bitchy ass into the surf. You had that coming, Corbin.”
Even Ethan was relieved.
The last thing he wanted was to put Tala away for their vacation. He wanted them to enjoy their week off.
They had earned it.
When the surf came in hard, crashing around their legs, Corbin nearly went down, but Gene caught him.
Then, they realized it wasn’t a wave that hit him in the back of the legs because it hit Gene, too.
“What the hell?” Corbin asked, feeling something floating around him in the surf.
When he looked down, he gasped and moved back and away from the object in the water.
“What the fuck?” he asked.
When they all looked down, Ethan knew what it was, and he couldn’t believe his eyes.
In the surf, there was a body.
A dead body.
When Gene went to roll it over, he grabbed the arm, thinking the person might need CPR, and he could feel all the bones moving under his flesh, like he was shattered.
Oh, Jesus.
To make it worse, what looked like tattoos in the moonlight came more into focus when he pulled him onto the sand.
Only, it wasn’t tattoos. The body’s flesh was marked with weird symbols.
When he got the victim onto his back, and out of the water, he saw the face. Despite it being bloated, he was caught off guard.
“Oh, holy shit,” he muttered, stepping back with everyone else.
It brought him back.
“I can’t believe we found a body on our vacation,” Ethan said, sighing.
Only, it was worse than that.
“We didn’t just find a body, EJ. I know this guy. I went to the FBI academy in Quantico with him when I first started out. We just found a dead FBI agent on the beach.”
Yeah, that was problematic.
