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"Let et my clothes" Tucker went over to the bed to find the him that if he took his eyes off Gavin, he wouldn’t be there when he got back He didn’t really want to fight with him, but he needed to h even the idea of not seeing hihten up, damn it Let hi such an ass?

When he turned around, Gavin was still sitting quietly on the s his coffee He looked up as Tucker returned and swept hiaze that made Tucker’s heart beat a little faster He eased himself into chair across fro into his questions

"Why did you go to the club last night? Do you go there very often?" The questions were a bit of a test Feeling a little like a jerk for trying to trap hi forward a little anxiously for his answer The club, Nightstick, was one Tucker visited with soularity He’d never seen Gavin there before, and he definitely would have noticed

"No," Gavin said sht I met you was my first time, but you knew that, didn’t you, Tucker?" He set his coffee cup down on the small table in front of hiht, and he’d been there recently Right in the room where I first saw you, Tucker"

Tucker inhaled a quick breath Narrowing his eyes, he focused all his attention on the calm, handsome face across from him "You kneho the killer was? Even before you say you killed him?"

"Yes His name was Tommy"

"What? So you knehat he looked like? Where he lived? You said you tracked hiation You can’t withhold information on an active case!" Tucker’s questions were rapid fire, and his tone had slipped into interrogation

"Yes, I knew him since he was just a small child But Ididn’t track him there, exactly I just uh…sort of discovered that he was there once I got inside I noticed his strong smell in the roo nonsense! Did you knoho the killer is or not?"

Gavin slammed down his hand "Damn it! Yes, I kneho he was, Tucker He was the son of a friend of ood kid, too, and didn’t deserve what happened to him He’d been turned into a th We tracked him here and after we discovered he had settled here tofield He wouldn’t have stopped--he never would have stopped The otten worse, and more violent Whatever sanity he may once have had completely burned away by whatever they shot into him He wasn’t the boy I knew anymore, Tucker He tried his best to kill me on that beach" As Tucker stared at hiain and drained his coffee, then stood up "I’m sorry, Tucker, but I need to take you back home with me Back to Tennessee I can take you to your place to pack a quick bag, but I’ else behind"

Tucker caught hold of his hand and pulled hiain He searched Gavin’s face carefully for any sign that he was teasing or joking Finding none, fear gripped him He must be delusional Could this beautiful, sexy man be psychotic? He was so surprised he couldn’t speak for a ed to speak, his voice came out shaky and thin "Um, okay honey Whatever you say--just calarded hihtened you, baby, and I didn’twith you about all this until I’d taken care of Tommy and come back for you Then I could have takento you without this distraction His co, though" He tilted his head as if thinking about it for a ht always have had proble you understand No, you’re analytical, like your father and pretty stubborn on top of it, I think"

"Like my father? What the fuck do you know aboutabout?" Tucker pushed hard on Gavin’s ar totoowith his own mind now Tucker had never even known his father His mother died when he was a baby, and so far as he knew, his father had hauled ass, not sticking around to care for hirandparents had raised hi outthings that made no sense That had to be all it was, but it was oddly specific and fucking weird toon here?

Gavin leaned in toward Tucker Tucker had an insane i desperately to stifle it He couldn’t stop hi a step backward though, and he kept backing up as Gavin caazed up at his handso he would start to smile and this would all be some kind of crazy joke "Gavin, stop this, please Tell ? I didn’t see you take anything, but… He looked up at Gavin and tilted his head "That ht toon the beach was some kind of weird acid trip, wasn’t it?"

"No, Tucker There weren’t any drugs and I’ now, butyou’re not going to like itto be hard for you, but you have to try to trusthurt you" Gavin stood in front of hi hih I suppose right now you’re mostly scared of me I think I have no choice but to clai"