David Majors should be looking forward to a long and prosperous life: after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's attending college courtesy of Uncle Sam and riding the fast track to success. He's tall, fit, and good-looking, so shouldn't the world be his oyster?<br><br>But underneath his clothes -- and beneath the surface -- David is a mess of scar tissue and insecurity. Then he meets Kevin Boxer, another former Army Ranger. Their first night together, Kevin stares David's scars in the face and doesn't flinch, instead showering David with the passion and attention he craves but never imagined possible. Slowly but surely, Kevin helps David rebuild his confidence, and the two of them begin to build their life together.<br><br>But their journey is far from over, and it turns out Kevin may need David to help him heal some scars of his own.

Magic Fingers

We’d turned one of the bedrooms into a den complete with two desks, our computers, and shelves for all of our expensive textbooks. One evening I was sitting at my desk in the den, struggling with some accounting exercises, and I began to curse under my breath.


“What’s wrong?” David said, looking up from the textbook he was studying.


“I just don’t get this fucking accounting assignment.”


It took him about ten minutes, but he made me understand the point that I was missing, after which I said, “Shit. You make it look so easy.”


“That’s because you had this course back during the summer.”


“True, and I struggled with it then just like you are now.”


Chapter 18