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

For just a second, we stopped to look, amazed at the sheer violence of the attack. Sharks were ambush predators. It was how they attacked, and we should not have been surprised. That second cost us, because suddenly they were all over us. I flew into the air and dove straight down. There was still time to save the Worthington man. I moved so that I was coming in at an angle and I snout slammed the other shark hard enough to knock him off of the Worthington man and send him flying.


If shark eyes could kill, I would have died instantly. The shark I hit looked pissed and in a world of pain. The Worthington man acknowledged me with as good of a nod as a shark could give before he tore into the shark I had just moved off of him. I went straight back to the battle and looked around. I knew my role. I could knock off my friends’ attackers with a bit of an attack myself.


Chapter 39