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

It was still too early to make dinner, so I put the salmon in refrigerator, went into the music room, and opened the baby grand my uncles had bought me when I’d graduated from Phillips Exeter.


I played the music I’d purchased, pleased with how successful my fingering of the keys was, and then went on to music I knew without seeing notes on a page.


Eventually, I closed the fallboard and went into the kitchen to start dinner: honey soy grilled salmon with edamame. 


It turned out quite well, and the next time Mark came to spend the weekend, I’d make it for him.


I took my coffee into the music room, turned on the lamp next to the couch, and set the cup on the occasional table. I selected Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbookand put the CD in the player, and as the music filled the room, I took a book from the shelf and sat down on the couch. 


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