Scott O’Hara and Edgar Lopez have been partners in the homicide unit of Haydon Cliff’s Police Department for the last couple of years. Edgar is openly gay and a bit of a player. Though Scott is also gay he keeps it to himself. Even from Edgar. Until one night, when a slightly drunk Scott initiates sex between them. Scott doesn’t expect the sex to be repeated. He doesn’t do one-night stands or fuck-buddies. But Edgar has other ideas and Scott can’t seem to resist his sexy partner. While they try to solve the mystery of who is murdering Haydon Cliff’s homeless, they also try to solve the mystery of whether Edgar’s heart can really be unobtainable.

Unobtainable

Lucien had started to doze when Abel next spoke.


“What do you think will happen to us if we get rescued?”


Lucien gave the question some brief thought before replying. “What do you mean? I, for one, will be over the moon.”


“No, I mean to us. We’ve made important discoveries today, about each other, and about ourselves.”


Lucien’s thoughts turned immediately to his wife and baby. “I’d want to find my family. I’d want to know they’re doing well.”


Abel sat up, drawing his knees up and resting his arms on them. Lucien sensed that perhaps Abel hadn’t received the answer he’d been expecting.


“I’m sorry,” said Lucien. “But wouldn’t you rather I was honest?”


“And if your wife can’t be located? Or if she’s taken another husband?”


Lucien sighed. “I certainly couldn’t rest until I’d found her. I loved her. And then there is my child…”


Lucien frowned at his slip, and at Abel leaping on it and drawing attention to it.


Chapter 17