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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] mean Kyler had to follow suit. We didn t talk much about him. I m sure you know why. Yeah. Holy shit! Cash scrabbled for the remote control to the television and hastily turned the volume down. Sorry about that. I play down here a lot, and since it s only me I ve got the volume on the threshold of pain setting. Kyler laughed because it was an accurate description. His ears were probably going to ring for a few days. Oh, fuck me running. Cash shut the television off. I didn t even think. About? Kyler was baffled. Cash shifted gears so quickly Kyler was having difficulty keeping up. The question of Ross was still dancing around in Kyler s head, looking for a partner. I m about to play a violent shooting video game with a man who very recently went through a traumatic experience with a nutjob and a gun. Kyler had no idea what the game was about, but he was starting to put the pieces together. You shoot people in the game? Yeah. Cash set his controller on the floor then took Kyler s from him. Kyler didn t resist. Maybe we should do something else. Kyler had never played any type of arcade game be it on a computer, television, or handheld device. He wasn t so sure now was the time to start. I m really sorry. I wasn t thinking. Please don t worry about it. Kyler did not want Cash to feel badly when he was genuinely trying to offer him something distracting. I m actually seeing someone about what happened to me. That s why I shouldn t have suggested this game. Not at all. It s not so much about what happened to me in the abandoned building but more about what Cooper might be experiencing right now. Oh. Cash clearly hadn t thought of it that way. I want to get my mind off men with guns or bombs or whatever. I have cards, Cash offered. That sounds like fun. They left the couch and went over to a small, round table with four chairs. Again, looks were deceiving because, though the dinette set appeared battered, it was remarkably comfortable. After a bit of debate, they settled on a lively game of seven-card draw. We don t play poker for money, though, Cash confessed. No? Kyler considered the cards he d gotten. They weren t the best in the world, but they weren t the worst. He could do something. Possibly. What do you usually play for? Chores. Really? Yep. Cooper is the best. At acquiring more chores? Kyler asked in jest. Right! Because every man here wants to do more grunt work. So Cooper is very crafty at cards? I ll have to remember that. Never play strip poker with that man. Kyler felt his eyebrows rising into his hairline. Oh, shit! I didn t mean to say that, like, he and I whoa, no. No, no, no! Even though his right arm was broken, Cash managed to lift it up with his hand palm open and out. Coop s not that kind of boss! Thank God. Kyler was falling in hard like with Cash. Through him, he was getting a better picture of Cooper. Oddly, being around one of the men Cooper put his life in the hands of gave Kyler a far deeper impression of Cooper. Shit. He s going to fucking kill me. So. He s that kind of boss? Kyler was actually teasing Cash, mainly because he could, and he found that doing so eased some of his worry about what Cooper and the other men who worked for him were doing. Even though Kyler understood it was part of their job, he didn t like the idea that any or all of them could be hurt, or worse, in an effort to keep him safe. Cracking wise and being silly was helping him push the darkness away. Oh, fuck, no! Cash looked truly mortified. I m not he d never oh for the love of Pete! Please tell me you are fucking with me. I m fucking with you. Kyler couldn t remember a time when he d ever used vulgarities with such ease or regularity. Somehow, he d walked into Cooper s building, his life, and everything he thought he knew about himself went out the window. Like his rules of never having a casual sexual encounter, or his rules about not swearing just because it was easier. All of those codes of conduct seemed to have been relaxed. Although, to be fair, what he d done with Cooper wasn t casual. Not at all. From the outside looking in, it might have appeared that way, but what they d shared had actually been life- affirming and far deeper than either one of them wanted to admit. You are a perfect match for Cooper, you know? Am I? Kyler laughed lightly even though he didn t actually feel any mirth. I thought with everything that happened with Ross he d never welcome another Kyler cut himself off abruptly because he wasn t sure what Ross had been to Cooper. Lover, employee, friend? As much as Kyler wanted to pry without seeming to do so, he had to be careful how he probed into something he knew so [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |
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