George Martin and Mike Foster have been best friends since childhood, but recent events have brought them even closer together: Mike has moved into George’s house now that George’s unfaithful boyfriend has been kicked out. It puts Mike in a pinch, because he’s always loved George -- maybe more than a best friend should.<br><br>George doesn’t suspect Mike’s feelings, being wrapped up in his job as the youngest lieutenant in the Jacksonville sheriff’s office and investigating a series of murders. But it will all come to a head when George is stalked by a psycho and Mike steps in front of a bullet meant for George. George then realizes there’s much more to their relationship than he thought.

Bodies of Work

Be careful what you wish for, I thought, remembering what I’d been thinking recently.


“Does this look familiar, boss?” Janet said.


“Now that you mention it, Sergeant,” I said, “it does, sort of.”


“I’ll bet you lunch that when we look at the surveillance tapes, we’ll see the same two guys, who did the last robbery,” she said.


“No bets on that,” I said. “And you’d better have somebody start digging through unsolved convenience store robberies and see how many more of them these guys have done.”


I got home a couple of hours later, crawled in bed, and snuggled up against Mike, although I had to pick Thor up and put him in his bed before I could. We’d moved it to a corner of the master bedroom when we decided he was housebroken enough to stay out of his crate all night. I somehow managed to go right back to sleep.


Chapter 134