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

“Probably throw you a damned parade,” Sorenson said with a wry grin.


Daniel blinked. “No,” he said in horror. “You’ve got to be kidding.”


“I wish he was,” Clark spoke up. “But you’re going to be the media’s darling.”


Adams nodded seriously. “The press already got wind of what happened. Heard them talking about a professor taking out the madman in a…how’d they put it?” he asked Sorenson.


“‘Show of heroism, bravery, and selflessness the likes of which this city’s not seen in years,’ I think,” said Sorenson.


“Oh, God,” Daniel said, his head thumping onto the tabletop. “You can…oh, just shoot me now. That’s such a load of bullshit. I was just…What the hell was I supposed to do? Run when I’d found a way to get armed? That’s just stupid.”


Clark laughed and petted Daniel’s back. “See what happens when you do a good deed and save lives?”


Chapter 79