Chapter 29

“Okay.”

Clark glanced around the crowded airport. “Not here. Will you come home with me?”

Thomas stared. He couldn’t help it. Really, he hadn’t expected to see Clark again, and now that he was standing there before him, he couldn’t fathom why. Clark had once said their personal life wouldn’t interfere with their professional life, but that had completely blown up in Thomas’s face. “What do we really have to talk about? It seemed pretty clear to me you didn’t want to talk to me before.”

“I know.” Clark did reach for Thomas’s hand then. He grasped it and wrapped his warm fingers around Thomas’s palm. “Please?”

Thomas nodded, not trusting his mouth to work just then.

“My car’s outside in the short-term lot.” He pulled up the handle of Thomas’s rolling suitcase and started wheeling it out. Thomas let him, following numbly.

They didn’t say anything else on the way to the car, and Thomas just got into the passenger seat. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes.