Plans. Everyone has them. Rush Dalton and Tad Jackson plan to live happily ever after. January Stephens plans to ease the hurt of a declined marriage proposal with alcohol. Josh Cooper's plan is to conceal his feelings for Mopp. And Mopp? He simply plans to hold tight to Josh's friendship.<br><br>Meanwhile, Eric Jameson arrives from DC with plans of his own. He intends to elicit information from Jan in an effort to find Babe, the woman who’s taken refuge with her son at the big house called the ranch. Babe plans to stay away from anyone who might try to take her little boy away from her and return him to the mysterious Dr. Pandora Gautier.<br><br>Deuce Pettigrew’s only plan is to keep the man he treasures safe and in one piece.  But the thing about plans is -- sometimes they just don’t work out the way you expect them to

Mann of My Dreams Book 6: The Best-Laid Plans

The footsteps stopped just outside the door, and Tim slid his hand into his pocket and closed his fist around the pistol.


“Tim? Cris? It’s Josh and Mopp. Tom sent us down here.”


JOSH SAT BEHIND the steering wheel, so tense his knuckles were almost white from the tightness of his grip. He couldn’t stop thinking about what had happened in his bedroom. No one had seen his back except Tommy and the doctors in the ER. Even Lucas avoided looking at it. Last summer he’d been afraid Mopp had seen it, but his obvious reaction—or non-reaction—had proved him wrong.


Now, however, there was no doubt Mopp had seen what Lucas had done to him. Josh had tried to conceal it by keeping his back to Mopp, but the boy was having none of it. Instead of being revolted by the scars, he’d caressed them. For a second, Josh thought—hoped—he was going to kiss each ridged line. He hadn’t, but what Mopp had done was even better.


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