When Dylan Russell unintentionally kills his ex-lover, Tommy, he knows he's in trouble. Then he meets a man named Mars Marsden who offers him a solution -- join the covert organization C21. An outfit made up of good men and women who ended up on the wrong side of the law, C21 now gives these people a chance to track and punish those criminals to whom the law doesn't seem to apply. Dylan should fit right in.<br><br>After meeting Mars' handler, Dylan learns Tommy was an arms trafficker. Somewhat reluctantly, he agrees to go undercover to help bring down the rest of Tommy's gang. After this dangerous induction into his new life, Dylan is sent for training.<br><br>But Dylan is a marked man. Not only are the police looking for him, but when one of Tommy's old colleagues discovers where Dylan is being trained, things get interesting. Can he and Mars survive the jobs they're sent on? And, more importantly, can their purely sexual relationship deepen into something more before the work they do tears them apart?

Dylan's Dilemma

As far as Dylan was concerned, that was too long. He was already a bundle of nerves, in spite of the fact Mars had spent most of the evening doing his best to help Dylan unwind. No sex was involved, much to Dylan’s disappointment. He could have used a good release from all the tension he was feeling. Instead, Mars had given him a massage while telling him stories of his misspent youth. By the time they finished, Dylan had to admit the ‘cure,’ as Mars called it, had worked. That is until he had to suit up in the camouflage clothing Bart brought up to his room.


“I look like a cast member of that Schwarzenegger movie,” he grumbled. “All I need it the face paint.”


Mars grinned. “You’ll be getting it just before we leave.”


Dylan eyed his in dismay. “You’re kidding.”


“Nope. I’d do it now for you, but you’d probably rub your face and that would be that.”


Chapter 45