Michael Weston is recently promoted, becoming the youngest head of a branch of secret agents. His lover of two years, Timothy Miller, has finally moved in with him and they both work for the same organization. At the moment, Michael’s satisfied with his wonderful life. The first case he has to personally deal with is a mysterious murder, but Michael can’t make heads or tails of it. All the clues lead to dead ends. It certainly doesn’t help when he discovers his high school bully and crush Ian Davis is somehow involved. Things get worse when Ian confesses to harboring years of infatuation for Michael, which pisses Timothy off. Meanwhile, the number of casualties in the murder case keeps increasing. Will the three men be able to find a mutually satisfying solution? And can Michael solve the murders before someone else is killed?

Contentment

“What?” the two men answered him simultaneously.


He suppressed his laughter and shook his head.


“Can we postpone the classical music discussion long enough to order our dinner?”


Tim and Ian nodded sheepishly when they realized they had been ignoring Mike for the time it took to walk from the parking area into the restaurant and to wait for a table in the moderately crowded restaurant. They quickly ordered their usual favorites and the waitress informed them the waiting time would be about twenty minutes before walking away with the menu.


“I’m glad you’re into classical music, Ian. Mike here is a hopeless cause.”


“Mike doesn’t like it?” Ian asked curiously.


He rolled his eyes. Again. He’d been rolling his eyes several times this evening. Maybe if he’d rolled them hard enough, his eyeballs would pop out of their sockets.


“Look, you have to excuse me for not loving the same dead composers and boring music you’re into, Tim,” he responded nonchalantly.


Chapter 31