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“I know. And I fuckin’ hate myself for it.”
“I don’t…know how to do any of this, Tyler.”
“What, and you think I do? So, we’ll learn together.” Hayes reached up to Ryan’s face, tilted his own chin up, and kissed his forehead. “I love you.”
“I love you, too,” Ryan whispered. “But listen, I need to get you back to White Oaks now before you end up in really deep shit.”
“I don’t think…I wanna go back,” Hayes offered. “I think I might be better. Maybe I can just stay…”
“Nope,” Ryan cut him off, placing a hand over his mouth. “Gonna stop you right there. A good friend once told me that you don’t stop just because you think you’re better. You need to see it through to the end. Not to mention, the NHLPA has made completion of this program a condition of your employment. Do not be a fucking idiot, Hayes.”
“I just…my heart? Is all but dead. I miss sleepin’ next to you. I miss the way you smell after a shower. After a workout. I miss the way your lips taste after you suck my cock. Fuck, kid. There’s nothin’ I don’t miss about you. It’s…bein’ away from you? It’s gonna kill me.”
“No. It’s not. You’re getting better. A few more weeks and then hopefully you can finish up at sober living, have a bit more freedom. That is, if this little stunt doesn’t get you in too much trouble.”
Ryan reached for his phone, instantly remembering that it’d fallen into the bay. “Shit,” he said, slapping his thighs and gesturing toward the water. “And there’s that.”
“Let’s get it. Get a fishin’ net or some shit and I’ll climb in and get it, scoop it out.”
Ryan rolled his eyes. “Calm the fuck down, Jacques Cousteau. It’s pitch dark out here, that water is freezing, and the thing’s already completely ruined. I doubt a bowl of rice is gonna do the trick this time. There’s no point. Not to mention, we ain’t pulling any mission impossible shit right now. We gotta go. Let me go grab Jake’s keys.”
“I wanna…can I come in? I wanna meet him. I wanna meet JT and see Mar. Please?”
Ryan shook his head. “She cannot know you’re here. She’ll freak out. And she’s…that’s the absolute last thing she needs right now.”
“I wanna meet him,” Hayes repeated sadly, as they’d begun walking down the dock and back toward the house.
“And you will. But not tonight. Go stand by the Jeep. I’ll be out in a minute.”
“How is he?” Hayes asked.
“He’s…a baby. I don’t know. Really cute, but a very loud, little baby who never stops screaming. He really likes me for some reason, though. I can always calm him down.”
Hayes smiled.
All of that makes sense.
He walked over to Jake’s car while Ryan went inside. He wondered if he could do this, if he could be away from Ryan for another two weeks at least, ultimately determining that if being here another two weeks got him back to Ryan?
He could do it a hundred times.
???
They turned onto the road off of which White Oaks was located. It was a long, mostly desolate, dimly lit road. Ryan had grabbed the keys without any drama, as both Mar and Jake took advantage of JT’s momentary silence and were sound asleep on the couch. He left a note on the kitchen counter for them in case they woke up, as he knew Mar had probably tried to call him a thousand times by now.
No phone. I’ll explain later. Everything’s fine. Found him. -Ry
“Pull over,” Hayes said, breaking the silence that had filled the Jeep Wagoneer pretty much since they’d left the house.
“Why? You OK?” Ryan asked, concerned.
“Just pull over, Rook.”
Ryan put the hazards on and pulled the Jeep into the roadside grass, putting it in park. Hayes reached his hand across to the ignition button, turning it off, then turned off the hazards. “What are you…” Ryan began, but he trailed off as Hayes snaked a hand around the back of his neck and leaned over.
“Hop in the back with me right now,” he breathed against Ryan’s ear, kissing a path down his neck.
Ryan began to protest. “I don’t think…that’s a good…idea…fuck.” Hayes began massaging Ryan’s thickening cock through his shorts while sucking on his neck a bit before biting down.
