Ten years ago, Maxwell you-can-just-call-me Clark thought he would spend his life as a military man. But his world turned into a nightmare when a suicide bomber destroyed Clark's career. It's been a long road to recovery, but now Clark finally has peace. His bar, Glow, is the place to be in the city of New Amsterdam; Lucian Gray, the son of the mayor, employs Clark as a confidential information man; and Clark’s side venture as part-owner of a BDSM club is quite the profitable release. Clark’s life is a good one, so long as no one gets too close.<br><br>Then a man walks into Glow who will forever change Clark’s rules and reality. Thinking Professor Daniel Germain is just another handsome face ripe for Clark’s kind of good time, Clark puts on his smoothest moves. When the professor turns him down, Clark goes on the hunt, and what he discovers shows him that even the deepest wounds can be healed by submitting to love.

Hearts Under Fire

You lost focus. Daniel, like you, is good at what he does. And maybe he reminds you just, a little, of what you lost. There’s nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong at all. Identify, strategize, and solve, Clark.


By the time Clark fumbled in his closet to get dressed to meet Daniel at Break, he was mostly good with what had happened at Orsino’s, and with what Daniel called forth in Clark’s brain.


Professor Germain was a professional dom. He was obviously intelligent, good at understanding people, intuitive, and someone Clark had a hard time reading. All traits of a man good with being on top.


Daniel rejected Clark, he assumed, because Clark didn’t sub and rarely bottomed. Clark was as aware of his own reputation as he was of others, and Daniel’s words and actions had confirmed that for Clark at the bar and at Orsino’s.


Chapter 19