If you could save someone's life, would you? Anyone's? Ali's older brother has a swastika tattooed on his knuckles, a prison ID number for nearly beating an immigrant to death, and spent his teenage years ruthlessly persecuting Ali for being gay. Blood may be thicker than water, but Ali has spent most of his life desperate to prove he is nothing like Tony. A committed vegetarian, charity-supporter, and blood donor, Ali would do anything for anyone. Ali may share parentage with Tony, but he’s determined not to share anything else if he can help it. So when Tony contracts leukaemia, and Ali is the only match for the urgently-needed bone marrow transplant, Ali is caught between two equally awful choices: to refuse and condemn a man to death, or to donate. And in donating, save the life of the man who nearly murdered Ali's Iraqi boyfriend?

Thicker Than Bone

“It’ll be a good Christmas, I swear,” Ali murmured quietly.


He had his doubts, but…this was what you got for being so suckered by a pretty face. Not even the rest of him. Just the face and those big blue eyes.


Story of his fucking life, man.27thFebruary 2015


Ali looked up over the top of his magazine, and snorted. “Oh my God! What are youwearing?”


Harem pants. Bright blue harem pants. And a matching bra. And—


“Where on earth did you find that wig?”


Yazid beamed and did a twirl. He had, in true stag do fashion, made no attempt to actually look feminine, and his hairy chest under the bra was more than a bit disturbing.


“I take it Kevin settled on a theme then?”


Ali laughed. “And you’re Jasmine, are you?”


“Seemed fitting,” Yazid beamed. “Tell you what, though, these pants are not flattering. The sultans had weird tastes.”


Chapter 54