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

So Clark was armed. It made Daniel breathe a little more easily, think a little more clearly, as Clark added, “Response time to the university, with as many calls as I’m sure dispatch is getting, will be a matter of minutes. Five at most. I want you to find something heavy—desk, anything—and get your head down. On your knees, curl in, back to the door.”


“I…Clark. I love you.” Daniel had to say that first. “But I can’t just sit here. I know what I promised you, but that’s five minutes. He’s headed toward the east wing. There are classes and meetings going on upstairs—oh shit—they can’t get through the windows, and I have to check on Mr. Wilson.” Daniel was shaking hard enough that he had to stop talking for fear that Clark would hear.


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