Total pages in book: 65
Estimated words: 63481 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 317(@200wpm)___ 254(@250wpm)___ 212(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 63481 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 317(@200wpm)___ 254(@250wpm)___ 212(@300wpm)
“It’s his fault,” Gadiel said. “How can he expect that I’ll be fine with him lying to me?”
Scott almost rolled his eyes. Why couldn’t he just let it go? “Like, don’t get me wrong, I’m very glad you aren’t angry at me, but don’t you think you’re overreacting a little? Will only lied because I asked him to.”
Gadiel’s lips thinned. “You don’t understand. I trusted him. I thought he was—my bodyguard, but he isn’t! He’s my bodyguard because you asked him to become one.”
“So?” Scott said, feeling beyond confused and exasperated. He really didn’t understand what difference it made.
Gadiel scowled again and stabbed something on his plate with his fork, the noise so loud that Scott flinched. “Enough about Will.” His lips opened, wobbled, and then pressed together tightly before he put on a smile that didn’t look sincere in the slightest.
He still managed to look like the prettiest thing Scott had ever seen. He could never look at the curve of Gadiel’s lush mouth without imagining it wrapped around a cock, and his lips looked even sexier when he was pouting like this. And fuck, those half-lidded blue eyes always looked kind of sleepy. It was sexy as hell, making Scott think of fucking for hours until they both were tired and spent. Damn, he truly couldn’t wait to get his dick inside the guy. His whining over Will’s lies was a tad annoying, but Scott could ignore it. Gadiel would get over it as soon as Scott got him wailing on his cock.
“Frankly, I’m surprised you’re cousins,” Gadiel said, scoffing. “You’re so lively and personable while he’s so—so rigid and unemotional! It drives me crazy that he can make me feel like a stupid kid with one look.”
Scott snorted. “Yeah, tell me about it. We’re nearly the same age, but Will has always had a way about him that made me feel about two inches tall.”
“I know, right?” Gadiel said, leaning forward and suddenly becoming very animated, his eyes burning with fervor. “He’s just so—so damn exasperating!” He jumped to his feet and walked to the railing. He huffed, looking down. “Even the way he stands there is so—ugh. So damn self-assured and superior I sometimes wanna scratch him—or slap him or—” He cut himself off, flushing.
Raising his eyebrows, Scott got to his feet too and joined him by the railing. The lights from the skyscrapers cast vibrant reflections across the water and were bright enough to let them see clearly.
Will was leaning against the railing on the lower deck, his tall form erect and tense. As if feeling their gazes, he looked up.
Scott could see Will stiffen when he saw them, but they were far enough to be able to talk without being overheard—except Gadiel made no effort to keep their conversation private, raising his voice as he continued criticizing Will for every little thing.
The longer it went on, the more bothered Scott felt. He felt almost like the third wheel, despite standing right beside Gadiel. It was kind of humiliating that his cousin managed to remain the focus of Gadiel’s attention even while he was twenty feet away. Granted, Gadiel’s attention was hardly positive, but still.
Something wasn’t right.
If Scott didn’t know better, he’d think... he’d think that Gadiel had a thing for Will or something.
But that was ridiculous. Will was just Will—boring, stuffy, standoffish. Scott loved Will like a brother, but he wasn’t blind to his flaws. Will simply wasn’t... very interesting. The mere idea of Gadiel being more interested in Will was laughable. Scott was the interesting one; had always been. He was more charming, more personable, more amusing—and hell, a great deal richer. And more importantly, Scott was gay. Will was straight as an arrow.
No, he was definitely imagining things. Gadiel was just angry with Will; that was why he seemed so fixated on him. That was all. But it was becoming increasingly obvious that he needed to get Gadiel truly alone, without Will being there to distract him.
When Gadiel excused himself to the restroom before they were about to dock, Scott took the opportunity to approach his cousin.
“I need you to leave us alone, man,” he hissed.
A strange expression flickered over Will’s face for just the smallest part of a second. “I’m his bodyguard. I can’t allow him out of my sight.”
“Oh please. Who will attack him? He’s just the third son of the sheikh. Or do you think I’m a danger to him?”
“No,” Will said after a moment. “Of course not.”
Scott clapped him on the shoulder. “Great, then. I’m going to walk him home, you stay out of sight, okay? Stop hovering over us and ruining his mood. You’re cockblocking me.”
Something shifted in Will’s expression. “I wasn’t,” he said. “Cockblocking you.”
“Maybe not intentionally, but your little spat keeps distracting him. Just stay away from us. Did you forget what you’re here for? You’re supposed to help me, not make things harder for me.”