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

Watching Clark, Daniel felt dazed. He closed his eyes as the rush and flow of the evening went through his head. It felt so good to be with Clark that the small correction made him worry about damaging what they had. And now Daniel was going to do something he hadn’t done in a long time: sleep with someone, stay with them after sex, and maybe even wake up with them and talk over breakfast or something. He wasn’t sure what would happen, but he wanted to find out. Even if it scared him half to death.


Clark adjusted the temperature, stepped to hold the door wider with his back, and held out a hand to Daniel. “It’s warm.”


Taking Clark’s hand, Daniel sighed. “I’m glad.”


Clark brushed their lips together. Daniel delighted in the taste of Clark’s mouth, his easy strength, his compliance with Daniel’s control. Gone were the games, the masks, and the barriers that had kept him—no, kept them—at arm’s length.


Chapter 46