When runaway Kip Faulkner was seventeen, he witnessed two men commit a murder. Fear kept him from telling Sheriff Long the truth about what he'd seen. Guilt made him turn his life around. Eleven years later, he's the owner of a reputable private investigation agency in Denver. John Rigby looks like a typical biker, tattoos and all. But Kip discovers he’s the antithesis of that stereotype when he hires John to work for his agency. When Kip learns about a recent killing exactly like the one he witnessed and recognizes one of the killers in a blurry photo on the news, he vows to find out how the two murders are connected ... and if there have been more. With John's help, can he learn the truth behind the murders while the two men fight their mutual attraction? Or will Kip become the next victim?

The Agency

“I’m finished. It’s all yours. Don’t forget to take your pills.”


“Um, yeah,” Kip replied, his mind more on the half-naked man in front of him than on pills, or anything else.


“Kip?” John said when he didn’t move.


“I heard you.” His gaze raked over John’s torso. “You have more of them.”


“Huh? Oh.” John grinned. “I’m the tattooed wonder.”


“You’re definitely a wonder.” Kip swallowed hard. “I, uh…The authorities want to talk to me. I told Mitch I’d be there in half an hour.”


“Then you’d better take a bath, not a shower. You don’t want to get your bandages wet.”


John growled. “I’m only two years older than you, so don’t go there.” Then he kissed Kip quickly before retreating into his bedroom,


Chapter 35