As an ex-Marine and a bookstore owner, Alex Kitteridge is not the kind of guy to lose his cool. At least, not until he meets Roderick Levine, a high-powered lawyer with an attitude and a passion for blaring his vehicle horn. When he makes the mistake of taking his anger out on Alex, Roderick finds he has messed with the wrong guy.<br><br>What starts as a grocery store argument soon explodes into a passionate night in steamy showers, moving vans, and locker rooms, with a sexual tension neither man can deny.<br><br>But what happens when it's all over? Could the jackass from the grocery store turn out to be something more, or was Alex just held captive?

Captive

Either way, Alex knew that tonight was going


to be different. He wasn’t going to let himself regret any of this


tomorrow, and there was no way in hell that he was going to fall in


Flagstones led from the driveway and Alex


followed them to a stone front porch. He tentatively made his way


across the porch and to the front door, looking in slowly, and


praying that this man not turn out to be an ax murderer.


From the open door he could see a white


tiled foyer. A chandelier that looked like something a French king


would love hung from the open second story. Alex slowly made his


way in, unsure if something, or rather someone, were going to pop


Inside, a large staircase loomed in front of


him, and identical ball room sized rooms opened on each side of the


foyer. He smiled as he noticed that the chandeliers inside them


matched the one in the foyer. Strangely, there was a not a drop of


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