Gabriel’s eyes flew open & immediately an emptiness overcame him. Wherever he was, the room was dimly lit & smelled musky as if it hadn’t seen life in ages. The dingy, uncomfortable mattress below him at any other time would have made his skin crawl. He had no idea where he may be or how he had gotten here, but it didn’t matter. Nothing mattered to him anymore. He’d lost Keeno. His love was stolen from him, right before his very eyes, & he was to blame. For months he had worked to cope with seeing Josey taken from the world too soon & never had he thought he would feel pain like that again. But, holding his boyfriend’s lifeless body in his arms was not a feeling he would ever be able to forget. His chest was tight & a chill hung in the air. Though he was curious as to where he was, he couldn’t will himself to move. Everything felt so fucking pointless now. He would lay down & die without Keeno, without any of the men he’d grown close to that Nate had killed all for some foolish obsession over him. He was scum, he was a worthless coward & this was exactly what he deserved.