A Bit of Me by Bailey Bradford Read Free Book Online

self-control.
    If this was just about a casual fuck, Xavier wouldn’t have been so intent on figuring Liam Stone out. But Liam had been clear that he was interested in something more with Billy.
    If, once he was in the shape to do so, Billy returned Liam’s interest, what then?
     
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    That would mean Liam had the power to hurt Billy in more ways than one. Xavier
    wouldn’t let that happen if he could help it. So he continued watching Liam for several minutes until the bigger man suddenly chuckled, then laughed outright.
    Xavier was so surprised he could only gape at the man for a second before snapping his mouth shut. He felt the ridiculous urge to laugh along with Liam. The man’s laughter was rich and deep, and Xavier just knew it’d melt Billy into a puddle of devoted, lusty goo. The impulse to laugh died when he realised he was, very likely, going to lose Billy to Liam Stone.
    Before he could consider just what that meant and why it worried him, Liam stopped
    laughing and walked up to him. He clamped one big hand on Xavier’s shoulder and
    squeezed. “I don’t know whether or not I passed your test, but I will tell you this—I don’t know what will happen between me and Billy, but I won’t deliberately hurt him, physically or any other way. And…” Liam bent his neck and brought his face to Xavier’s, almost nose to nose. Xavier could see every gold fleck in the man’s hazel eyes, and he couldn’t have missed the promise in those depths, either “Whether you like it or not, I am going to do everything I can to get Billy to give me a chance—for something more than a fuck or whatever. I don’t know what or if we can have anything permanent between us, but I would like to try. I think Billy needs me, and maybe…” Liam looked up then took a step back. His gaze, however, never left Xavier’s.
    “Mr Talbot?”
    Xavier reluctantly turned from Liam and found a short, rather squat doctor standing
    behind him. “Yes?”
    The doctor bobbed his head and gripped the clipboard in his hands as he glared up at Xavier. “I’m Dr Nichols. I don’t know if I should bother telling you anything about your brother, since I was told you’re the one who beat the crap out of him.”
    That explains the short shit’s attitude. Xavier carefully kept his expression blank as he watched the doctor. Once the man twitched nervously, Xavier spoke. “Not that it’s your business, but my brother was trying to sexually assault another young man who is also being checked out. He was also threatening that young man with a knife, and had previously forced him to perform sexual acts. So, you can sneer and be a judgmental ass if you want, or www.total-e-bound.com
     
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    you can do your damn job and tell me—the person with the right to make medical decisions for Randy—what is going on.”
    Xavier sighed internally as the doctor’s attitude shifted into something almost
    professional, then he forced himself to listen to the damage he’d done to his own flesh and blood.
    “Can I see him?” Xavier was torn between loathing what his brother had become and
    loving the boy he used to be. He couldn’t seem to merge the two. It was as if the present-day Randy were an entirely different person from the brother Xavier used to play with when they were kids. But surely there was something good left in Randy?
    The doctor shook his head and sighed, his brown eyes filled with sympathy instead of judgement. “No, I’m sorry. He did make it clear that he didn’t want to see you.”
    It shouldn’t have hurt, but it did, like a hot branding iron pressed against his heart.
    “Okay. Thank you.” Xavier turned away, careful not to look at Liam or anyone else in the waiting room. If he felt like shit about his relationship with Randy now, how much worse was it going to be when he pushed Billy to file charges against him?
     

     
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