Page 146 of Tell No One
Tag’s eyes lit up when he saw them.
“I want to buy one for you,” Adam said. “Pick whichever one you like.”
“Really?”
Adam nodded.
“Thank you.” Tag didn’t say anything else for a few minutes, he was too busy chewing his fingernail. “They look…complicated,” he whispered.
“This one has a GPS, heart rate sensor, compass, accelerometer and gyroscope.” The man picked it up to show him.
“I just want a watch that tells the time,” Tag said.
Adam smiled. “They all do that.”
“How about one of these?” Another case came out.
“Oh, that one,” Tag said immediately.
A silver watch with a pale blue face and diamond dot hour markers. Adam was pretty sure it was a woman’s watch but if Tag liked it, that was all that mattered.
“It’s water resistant to a hundred metres. A beauty.” The shop owner held it out to Tag who slipped it onto his wrist.
“It even fits,” Tag said.
“So that’s a yes?” Adam asked.
“Yes. Thank you.”
Tag came out of the shop wearing the watch, clutching Adam’s hand. “You’ll have to be my bodyguard now, in case someone tries to steal it. Whatever happens, save the watch.”
Adam laughed. “I thought I was your bodyguard anyway.”
“You shot me!” Tag grinned.
“And you remind me on a regular basis. As if I could forget.”
“Anything else going to make my heart leap today?”
Adam pulled Tag into his arms and kissed him, and he didn’t care who was watching. He wanted the whole world to see.
“I love you,” Adam said. “I think all my life I’ve been afraid of love because I thought telling someone you love them gave them the power to hurt you. So I decided I didn’t need love, that I’d never need it, and I was wrong. Now, I don’t know how I lived without it because I can’t live without you. I didn’t think I had a heart until the moment I thought I’d lost you.”
“When you shot me?”
“Every time I pushed you away or tried to push you away. It hurt. I knew then that Ididhave a heart and it was all down to you. I never thought of myself as lucky and yet I’m the luckiest guy in the world.”
He choked up as he spoke and Tag hugged him.
“You are the best boyfriend—ever. Now I need you to take me home because I need to make your heart leap with the help of my watch.”
“Dare I ask doing what?”
Tag put his mouth to Adam’s ear. “I want to see how fast I can make you come.”
“I don’t think that’s one of the functions on that watch.”
“Then I’ll count. I can get to twenty without getting confused.”
