As head of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Paranormal Operations Unit, Clay Chiles has found a place where he can serve with honor and a surrogate family to replace the one he never truly enjoyed. When he meets Elven warrior Arondel and begins to build the partnership he had never hoped to find, life seems good. Still for two life-long loners to merge their lives, hearts and minds, an occasional conflict is bound to arise.<br><br>Clay’s discovery he has not only a father but a half-brother on Arondel’s home world of Elvenheim creates new and different challenges -- can he accept and trust relatives so different from all he has known? Can they accept him? Finally, faced with incredible tasks and dangers, Clay and Aron are torn asunder. Will the strength of their still- fragile bond be enough to bring them through hell and back to one another’s arms?

Runes of Redemption

He raised his head just enough for their faces to come together. Lips met, gentle at first, but growing rapidly eager, avid, and hungry, devouring each other in voracious passion. Tongues tangled as they licked and sucked, nipped and tasted. He became swamped in precious flavors and scents, in his deepest awareness ever of this incredible soul who was his other half, who made him complete and whole. They grappled in an urge to get even closer, to meld their bodies together. Clay’s prick shoved between Aron’s thighs, while Aron’s lifted and pushed against Clay’s belly.


They fell together onto the cool silken carpet of the grass, moist and soothing beneath their heated flesh. They rolled, first Aron on top and then Clay, still clutching with hands that could not touch or grasp enough, legs tangled and open mouths drinking in the very air each of them breathed.


Chapter 26