“Pissed off?” Did he actually assume that?

“Yeah, we had been idiots. Okay? I admit it.”

“I’m not offended with you. I’m… I’ll be there in only a few minutes.”

“Thanks.” The phrases had been quiet and shaky. Toby hung up earlier than Bryce might say the rest.

Bryce wolfed down his cereal and hopped within the bathe. He’d washed off after he’d gotten again to the station final evening and once more that morning, however he didn’t really feel like he’d ever get the scent of the fireplace off his physique. He knew it was all in his head, however he would swear he nonetheless smelled like he’d simply stepped out of the constructing.

By the point he was prepared to go away for Matt and Toby’s residence, his coronary heart was beating practically as exhausting because it had been when he’d lowered Matt’s limp physique to the bottom. Matt might have died, and regardless of Grey’s phrases, Bryce nonetheless struggled to just accept that it wasn’t his fault. He ought to have gone in first and never nervous about whether or not Matt was in a snit or not. He ought to by no means have been Matt’s officer within the first place.

Toby opened the door earlier than Bryce knocked as if he’d been anticipating him. “Matt’s mendacity down.” He turned away, by no means wanting Bryce within the eye. Was he scared? Harm? As nervous as Bryce? The final time he’d been there, he’d tied Toby up, then he and Matt had proceeded to drive Toby out of his thoughts. Why had he run? He hadn’t been doing what was greatest for himself or for them. He’d simply been scared. Was there any likelihood they may put the items again collectively once more?

Matt appeared up when Bryce entered their bed room. Bryce merely stared for just a few moments earlier than he discovered his voice. “How’re you feeling?”

“Like shit,” Matt stated. His foot was propped up on a number of pillows, and he had an icepack on his ankle.

“I feel the ice has been on lengthy sufficient. I’ll put it again within the freezer,” Toby stated in a not so refined try to go away Bryce and Matt alone.

Bryce sat on the sting of the mattress. “I ought to by no means have allow you to go in first.”

“So you would be the one injured?”

Bryce hated listening to the bitterness in Matt’s voice. “It was my place.”

“I acted like an ass and also you let me. None of that is your fault.”

“However you’re pissed at me anyway?”

Matt shook his head, and his expression softened. “I’m pissed at myself. You saved my ass. How can I be offended with you if you’re such a superb man?”

Bryce appeared away, uncomfortable with Matt’s reward. “Not at all times. Not once I say issues I don’t imply simply to harm folks.”

“Yeah, individuals who don’t care sufficient about you to cease placing your job in jeopardy.”

“Individuals who anticipate you to lie for them if you hate mendacity,” Toby stated, stepping again into the room. Clearly, he’d been listening from the door.

“I agreed to it,” Bryce insisted.

“Yeah, however I seduced you.” Toby waggled his eyebrows, lightening the temper. Bryce couldn’t assist however giggle.

Toby laid a hand on Bryce’s shoulder. “I meant what I stated on the cellphone. I get why we’ve to cease working collectively, however I’m scared.”

“Not half as fucking scared as I’m,” Matt stated. “I’ve by no means executed something with out Toby.”

Toby shook his head. “You’re the sturdy one, Matt. I’m the one who simply turns every thing right into a joke.”

“Or a flirtation,” Matt added.

Toby huffed. “If I hadn’t flirted with Bryce?—”

“We wouldn’t be on this mess.”

Bryce didn’t assume Matt meant for these phrases to harm, however they did. He’d made a large number of their lives. All of the encouraging issues Mason, Jack, and Grey had instructed him fled from his thoughts, changed by apprehension. He took a step again, his chest so tight he couldn’t get air in his lungs. Breaking apart had damage them, however staying with them wouldn’t have executed them any good both.

“I ought to go. I actually should get some relaxation. Final evening was…”

Matt appeared up, panic in his eyes. “Don’t. I didn’t imply that prefer it sounded. I used to be simply…”

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