Captain Charles Hawkins has returned from the Napoleonic wars desperate for solitude. When the man who saved his life asks a favour, he feels honour bound to agree, but the request fills him with horror.<br><br>Sebastian Farrah knows the only useful thing he can do with his life is join Wellington’s army. He has tried everything else and failed. He agrees to his brother’s ridiculous request to spend a month in the country because it is the only way his brother will agree to purchase him a commission.<br><br>Charles and Sebastian clash but quickly form a bond that deepens into much more. However, they are running out of time. Charles begs Sebastian to stay, but Sebastian knows to do so he will be forced to reveal what it is that stopped him from succeeding in everything. The shameful secret he carries from the schoolroom.

Promises

Charles shook all over. He needed Sebastian so badly it wasn’t funny. He didn’t even want to bother undressing. There was something sinfully wonderful about fucking almost fully clothed. He flicked the buttons of his falls and pushed his breeches down with his smalls, and then struggled out of his coat, the tails would get in the way, and presented himself to his lover.


Sebastian shoved his own breeches out of the way and was rubbing oil on himself with shaking hands, and he moaned at the sight of Charles spread over the desk.


Charles waited for the press of his cock at his entrance but jumped when Sebastian kissed him gently at the base of his spine. The sensitive area just above his arse. He ran a gentle hand over his buttocks, and then slid a finger between and pushed. Charles barely recognised the keening sound that came from him. He pushed back.


Chapter 36