Mark Dauphin loves his nephews, Sam and Logan, and he'll do anything his brother-in-law Cole asks, but when Cole wants Mark to play nice with Stefano Magnussi, Mark isn't sure he can comply. Stefano is hotter than fire, but Mark can't see past the fact that Stefano is one of those guys, the type of men who date guys half their age, the type of guys who made Mark give up on dating.<br><br>Of course, a little wine and several cocktails later, Mark finds himself dropping more than his defenses with Stefano. But when Logan and the rest of Mark's family surprise them in the morning, Mark and Stefano are suddenly at odds.<br><br>When Logan's ego is wounded, not only does Mark find himself desperate to fix his relationship with his nephew, but he also questions whether his night with this beautiful man meant anything to either of them. Mark isn't given much time to reflect though, as the war that's been brewing between the shivers comes to a violent head, and he soon learns that sometimes you just have to trust in those around you.

Mark's Midlife

I allowed him to kiss me as he pulled me onto the bed, and then rolled over so that he was on top of me. My arms ran over his shoulders, in awe of their breadth. He pushed into me and I realized that the kisses and I were not the only things that were hard.


“Wait, what are we doing?” I asked. “You two are married.”


“We are,” Olivia said, walking over to the bed and sitting down on it next to me.


Karl looked up at me a little. “And that’s kind of why we’re doing this.”


“Like I said earlier, we have a proposition for you,” Olivia began.


“We could always talk about it afterwards,” Karl said with a smile.


“Um…no, we better talk about it now,” I said, worried about where this was going.


“I told you that I cannot conceive,” Olivia said, placing her arm on me.


“I can’t either,” I said with a laugh, looking down at Karl.


“But you could probably father a child,” he said, and then ran his finger over my cheek.


Chapter 24