(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 458

Chapter 458: Who doesn’t love a good meatstick?

Kellen felt numb. He felt so exhausted from his emotional outburst that he could barely lift a fork to his lips, but he needed to. Rhys was babying him, and that only added the heavy weight on his shoulders.

He should be able to take care of himself, of feeling himself and making sure he was okay. He’d been able to do this before. Had always been able to do this before. He’d never really had people who he could fully rely on when he’d been on the front lines, outside of Brent, but Brent wasn’t always at his side. Brent was a busy man, so Kellen had to go through the bursts of anxiety and worry on his own mostly.

He felt terrible for putting this weight on Rhys, and tried to apologise for it too.

Rhys wouldn’t let him.

They were both rubbed a little raw, not as smooth around the edges right now, so Rhys wasn’t as polite as he normally was about it. Not as sweet.

"Shut up, Kellen. If you’re about to apologise for the state you are in right now, I swear to god I’m going to get really mad." Rhys growled, and the hair on the back of Kellen’s neck stood on end. Kellen shuddered as Rhys sat next to him at the island, holding up a fork.

The spread of food that Kellen had ordered was in front of them, and Rhys was warming up each plate individually so that Kellen could take his time eating all of the food he had ordered. Kellen was pushed up to the edge of the island by Rhys so he’d either need to push hard to get out from under the countertop, or Rhys would have to pull him back out to get down. Rhys was hovering beside him, shoving food into Kellen’s mouth rather lovingly despite everything.

Kellen was feeling loved, even given the situation that they were finding themselves in.

"I-I just...I just feel you shouldn’t be looking after me like this. I’m just...out of sorts." Kellen admitted in between bites. Rhys stared at the man like he had two heads, not even hiding it.

"Sweetheart, you’re my priority. Even when I’m upset at you, angry at you, the world is crumbling around us. You are my priority. Always." Rhys’ expression shifted slightly before he sighed. "Let’s not get into this again. I don’t want to make you cry again, but please, this is nothing. This is just taking care of my partner after something terrible happened to him. Now stop fucking worrying about me taking care of you and just let me taking fucking care of you." Rhys’ yellow eyes held an edge to them that finally had Kellen’s emotions stirring.

He was so annoyed at Kellen for his behaviour that he was swearing. Rhys rarely swore in front of Kellen unless they were in bed.

Kellen felt his shoulders begin to shake as he laughed. Rhys sat back, watching him as Kellen shook his head, laughing. He raised his hand up, rubbing it down his face as he felt his shoulders continue to shake.

"You’re that upset, huh? Sorry. I didn’t mean to upset you this much. Will a kiss appease you?" Kellen asked softly, his eyes warm as he looked over at the other man. Rhys, who had unintentionally been rather bristly, softened as well.

"Hmm. I’ll consider it. But only after you’ve finished eating. You need to fill yourself up." Rhys said and Kellen chuckled.

"I can think of another thing that could fill me up." He said and watched as Rhys’ expression flooded with shock. He gasped.

"Kellen Woods!" That exclamation had Kellen dying. He bent over the counter, laughing as Rhys stared at him in stunned silence. "I can’t believe you would say that!" Rhys followed up with and Kellen just couldn’t contain his laughter. There was a part of him that felt terrible for laughing right now, knowing it wasn’t the time, nor the place for him to be doing this, but this also felt...perfect. He hadn’t expected that Rhys would act so scandalized by Kellen’s words.

Not when the man had said stuff that was so much worse to him in the past.

Kellen couldn’t stop laughing, it almost hurt. Rhys was still staring at him in shock. Finally, Kellen was able to gain some restraint, calming himself down with deep breaths but he couldn’t stop the grin from crossing his face.

"What? It’s true, isn’t it? I’ve seen your dick. You could fill me up." Rhys gasped again.

"Kellen! I never expected you of all people to say something like that." Rhys was truly appalled and that only had Kellen grinning wider.

"What? Who do you think I hang out with a lot? I’m clueless in practice, but I know how to do it. Remember? You got mad at my kit that I had. That I should still have, because I believe once this gets past that point, you aren’t going to be able to control yourself." Kellen said it a little proudly and it was Rhys’ turn to cover his face and groan.

"Ugh. No! You are never allowed to say that again!" Kellen was delighted to see how turned off and disgusted Rhys was by his words. The romance books from Hill were really coming in clutch right now, and Kellen loved it. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

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