Willis Moore is a detective with the Richmond City police department. A case he was involved with went down badly and he was given a month's sabbatical to pull himself together after the death of his informant, a young man named Teabag, with whom Will had let himself become sexually involved.<br><br>Back on the force now, Will finds himself drawn to another street punk, a hustler named Corey, who seeks police assistance to protect his "boys" from a violent attacker. He and Corey work well together, and Will dares to hope their relationship might be heading toward something more. But he still can't seem to shake the feeling he will eventually fail to protect the hustler ... the same way he failed to save Tea.

Tricked Out

After Corey dressed, he led Will downstairs again, but stopped at the front door with his hand on the knob, his head cocked at an inquisitive angle. Will didn’t notice Corey had stopped until he bumped into the hustler’s stiff back. “What?” 


Corey glanced at him, and that seemed to make up his mind. Catching Will’s hand in his own, Corey pulled him down the hall that led to the kitchen, a resolute set to his jaw. “You should meet Bobby.”


“He’s here?” Will glanced around, suddenly nervous. He’d thought they’d been alone…had Bobby heard them upstairs? As Corey stopped at the last door off the hallway, Will pointed out, “I thought you said he didn’t want to talk to the cops.”


“He didn’t want to go to the police station with me,” Corey corrected, flashing Will a quick grin. “But you’re here, and he’s here, so why not just stop in and say hi?”


Chapter 16