Luke Ryder has been doing whatever it takes to survive on the streets for the last three years. Then he meets Jourdain Laurent, a man who offers to help him get off the streets. Although wary of Jourdain's motives, Luke slowly accepts his help.<br><br>Finn Macneil is aware of what is happening. He vows to save Luke from Jourdain's clutches, as he knows what will happen if he doesn't. After all, Finn's step-brother was destroyed by Jourdain.<br><br>Will Finn be able to save Luke, and end Jourdain's existence? He prays he can, or the attraction he and Luke begin to feel for each other is doomed.

Someone to Love Him

Jourdain dropped Luke off downtown, as he’d requested. Luke picked up his backpack from the floorboard, thanked Jourdain again, and strolled away. Jourdain’s gaze stayed on the young man until he was out of sight, while wishing Luke had agreed to come home with him. If he had, I would have kept my promise. I can’t move too fast or he’ll vanish, and that I will notallow. He sighed. Patience is a virtue, or so they say. In all my years, I’d think I’d have learned that. What’s a week, or a month, it the grand scheme of my life? “Not much,” he murmured, heading back to his condo. “Even though each minute will seem like an hour, and each hour, a day—in the end, it will be worth the wait.” 5


By the time he’d finished his first day at the warehouse, Luke was exhausted. There’s a hell of a difference between sitting on my ass begging for change, and working my ass off hauling boxes around.


Chapter 11