Out-and-regretting-it comprehensive attendee Jayden Phillips turns his cast-iron plans for life upside-down by falling in love with private-school violinist Darren Peace, a sardonic boy with the craziest hair Jayden's ever seen.<br><br>But all is not what it seems, and Jayden's bullying problem becomes meaningless when he is confronted with what the music does to Darren. How do you stop a dangerous depression rooted in the same thing that makes someone what they are? Dark moods, blank apathy, and the undertow of self-loathing all simmer beneath Darren's dry and beautiful veneer, and Jayden feels powerless to stop them.<br><br>Then a mugging gone wrong takes the music forcibly away, and Jayden is finally given the chance to change Darren's life -- and, quite literally, his mind.

Vivaldi in the Dark

“Show me what you and Aaron did,” he breathed into Darren’s mouth, and his lip was bitten lightly for his troubles. “Really. Show me.”


Jayden barely let him, resettling into Darren’s lap the moment his back hit the headboard. His flushed, ruffled appearance was even more attractive when it was caused by him, in a way Jayden hadn’t really imagined, and he paused the proceedings to kiss him again, pushing up into him until Darren was craning his neck to maintain it.


“Take this off,” Jayden whispered, tugging on the shirt, and Darren wriggled out of it, exposing those broad shoulders to Jayden’s eyes as well as his hands, and let Jayden trail his fingers over the neat curves of his biceps and the valleys of his collarbones, interfering only when he tried to touch that sensitive nipple again.


Chapter 68