Major Oliver Thornley never expected to see the man who saved his life at the battle of Waterloo again. He certainly never expected to fall over him in the street. When Thornley stumbles over a pile of rags, he is horrified to discover it is the man who dragged him from the battlefield to safety.<br><br>Taking the man back to his Mayfair home, Thornley nurses Daniel back to health as he battles with his own forbidden desires. Then he learns Daniel shares his feelings, as well. Though it feels so right when they are in each other’s arms, Thornley knows their mutual secret could see them hang.<br><br>Is there a way for them to be together despite the class difference that separates them? Can he admit he’s fallen in love before Daniel leaves for good?

Fallen

“Shush,” he said as he pulled back and then kissed him again. Daniel responded immediately, making a soft sound at the back of his throat, and those hard arms came around him holding him tightly, as tightly as he remembered.


A noise from within the house wrenched them apart.


“Come,” Oliver said stroking Daniel’s face softly. “Come where we can talk without scandalising the servants.” They went to the study and Oliver locked the door behind them.


“I was going to pay you for the clothes and things, I wasn’t just walking out with them,” Daniel said.


“Do you think for a second that I care about the clothes?”


“Daniel, did you mean what you said? I am in complete turmoil.”


Oliver sighed as Daniel refused to meet his gaze. His eyes fixed firmly on the floor. His heart was thumping in his chest and he could barely believe what was happening. He moved forward and put a hand on his shoulder, and when Daniel looked up he smiled and pulled him into his arms.


Chapter 12