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“I thought more so that we could get really good at it and dethrone Gene. He’s too damn smug about being the best.”
Corbin didn’t mind that.
He’d love a little normalcy back.
When Will got up, he brought him a spoon back from the kitchen. Then, he sat beside him so they could both have ice cream.
“Thank you, Will,” he said.
He didn’t need to thank him.
Not.
At.
All.
It was, after all, his privilege to be part of this wonderful man’s life.
“What wouldn’t I do for you, Corbin? I’d die for you,” Will admitted.
Corbin knew that it was damn good to have people around him who would fight for him.
Because honestly, he couldn’t fight for himself.
Not anymore.
* * * Blackhawk & Cantrell * * *
Across The Country
California Airport
Arrival For Work
When Anthony Magnus got off of the flight, the first thing he did was turn on his phone. The second he did, the thing went insane.
He had fifteen missed calls, and twenty-nine text messages.
Immediately, he knew something was wrong, and his heart started pounding.
It had to be about Charlie.
Had something happened?
When he went to start reading his phone, someone came up beside him and grabbed it from his hand.
“HEY!”he began, looking over, and seeing Charlie standing there.
That immediately freaked him out.
The man was supposed to be back in DC, not on the opposite coast.
Then, it hit him.
“Oh, my God! What the hell did you do?” he asked.
Charlie was in pain, and he wanted to get to his daughter. The flight had been brutal, and he wasn’t having a good time. Granted, he slept most of the flight, but he had to avoid Tony, and that wasn’t easy.
