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

Daniel held on, and only when the spurting stopped did he try to figure out how to buckle the belt on so that it would stay tight. He ended up stabbing the tongue through the leather. The bullet had gone through Bernard’s upper arm and not his thigh, or he would have bled out by now. Daniel put a bloody set of fingers to the thick throat to find that Bernard’s pulse fluttered like a hummingbird’s, so fast it was dizzying, but steady.


That was when he saw the gun belt around Bernard’s waist. The Smith and Wesson M&P .357 automatic sat there, heavy and solid. Daniel sighed, mentally apologized to Clark, unbuckled the gun belt from Bernard’s waist, and then looked up into Bernard’s brown eyes.


“I’m afraid I have to take this, Bernard.”


“Didn’t see nuthin’,” Bernard whispered. “You get him, Danny. Right?”


Chapter 73