The attraction.
It was just too much for him.
The only difference was that Will never got drunk and tore into him.
This was all Alex, but still, Corbin knew he deserved it.
He raged on.
“What did I do?” he asked. “What could I have possibly done to make you terminate our partnership? I did nothing bad today. I was good. I was on my best behavior.”
Corbin was alarmed by that.
It sounded…wrong.
He sounded like a man on the edge, and this shouldn’t push him over like this. Only, it was.
They were only partners.
Right?
Now, he was wondering if Alex felt something more for him, and he’d never noticed.
Had he been too lost in his own trauma?
“You could have come to me, and we could have worked it out! I respected you enough to do whatever it took to make this work! I was trying.”
Oh, boy.
This felt like relationship talk.
“Alex, it just isn’t working out,” he stated.
And that annoyed Alex to no end.
When he did something wrong, he’d fix it. He’d pay for it, but he needed to be told what it was. There was nothing worse than not knowing why you were hated.
Why you were being abandoned.
He spent his whole life like that, and he needed to know what he’d done to Corbin.
“Why?” he asked.
When Corbin didn’t answer, but instead moved away from him, and closer to the bed, Alex followed.
“Just tell me why you’re ditching me. Tell me why you couldn’t just tell me, so we could work through it together!”
This was all new territory for Corbin.
The bottom line was that he felt way too much for this man. That was why he needed to run. Not only did he smell like his dead husband, but the fight in him…
It was the same.
Will had been an attorney, and he never backed down during a fight. He’d stand his ground, and let Corbin cling to that strength.
Some people were just stronger and tougher. He saw it in Alex, too.
If that wasn’t bad enough, he was also attracted to him, his body, and his intelligence.
