Quinton Mann and Mark Vincent are settling into a relationship that shouldn’t be possible. After all, Quinn is CIA, while Mark belongs to the WBIS, an agency labeled by others in the intelligence community as being staffed by sociopaths. Somehow, in spite of that, they seem to be making it work.<br><br>Surprisingly, it isn’t work that separates them but family matters and a friend’s plea for help when his partner is kidnapped. Quinn is off to London, while Mark heads for Los Angeles to solve the kidnapping. Then Mark gets called to Paris by Femme of the Division, where things are not as they seem. Quinn, thinking to meet Mark in Paris, ends up coming to Mark's rescue. Back in the States, Mark fights taking time to recover from being shot while events are happening at the CIA that could endanger both Quinn and his best friend, DB.<br><br>Between family, friends, and Mark, how will Quinn make the opportunity to talk to Mark about moving in together and even starting a family?

Mann of My Dreams Book 2: Things Happen That Way

None of it had worked, and the “accident” that followed resulted not only in my car being totaled, but in Mother being hospitalized, in a coma.  


Thanks to Mark, Wexler had eventually paid for it—was still paying for it, confined to a hospital bed, tethered to machines that had to breathe for him, feed him, remove the waste from his body. I’d never struck myself as being particularly vindictive, and perhaps I should have been shocked by what Mark had done to him, but Mother had suffered for what Wexler had planned for me. I couldn’t have been more pleased with the results. 


I shook those thoughts away when Mark griped, “Next time we’re doing things my way.”


I always got a tight sensation in my chest when I realized he expected us to have a future.


Damn any observers! I caressed my lover’s cheek a final time before leaving to drive to Charmaine. 


Chapter 17