To most people who know him, Nick Fontana is the owner of a prestigious advertising agency. To a select few, he’s known as Niko, a man who deals with very sensitive problems no one else can handle. As a result, Nick has never found a man to love -- because he won't allow it to happen. Then he meets flirtatious Greg Tyson while out running. He thinks nothing of it until Greg applies for a job at Nick's ad agency. Greg is exactly what Nick is looking for in an employee. Hiring him, however, might turn out to be the biggest mistake of Nick's life ... or the beginning of something new, if Nick is willing to open himself up and let Greg in. Doing so will require an amount of trust Nick isn’t certain he can give without endangering Greg's life -- and losing his love -- in the process.

Love Was Not an Option

“I can handle it. I’m not a weakling,” Greg replied defiantly. “It will be worth it.”


?tienne studied him. “You’re in good shape, which will help. All the running you do, I suspect.”


“Then you’ll do it?” Greg asked hopefully before he smiled weakly. “Maybe I should do some more research about being a werewolf, first.”


“Research is you,” Nick said, chuckling as he hugged Greg.


“Well, it’s for damned sure you haven’t told me all that much,” Greg replied with a touch of asperity. “But then,” he conceded seconds later, “I haven’t asked, either. At least, having seen you shift, I know it must stop hurting after the first time.”


“Let’s say it gets less painful each time you do it. By the third or fourth shift, it’ll become so natural you won’t notice the brief pain.” Nick grinned, leaning over to whisper, “Sort of like getting fucked. Your body gets used to it.”


Greg turned bright red. “She heard that?”


Chapter 38