At thirty-six, Ian feels done with the world. When a night at a bar goes as poorly as expected, he wants only to return home to be miserable in peace. Instead, he encounters Jordan. Hot, young, and interested, Jordan is everything Ian's ever wanted and nothing he believes himself capable of actually obtaining.<br><br>Jordan has enough going on in his life trying to scrape together a living for himself and his autistic son. When he meets Ian, all he wants is a brief, erotic moment and nothing else.<br><br>But fate throws them together again and again, and Ian finds himself determined to do whatever it takes to give their story a happy ending -- no matter what secrets Jordan's past has waiting for him.

Sonata

“No, I know, right?” Aubrey’s lip curled in distaste. “Children. How awful.”


Ian shook his head. “No, I mean, holy shit it’s him.”


“Him, the kid from the bar. Jordan.” Even Ian heard the reverence in his voice as he spoke the name. Yet as embarrassed as he was by it, the tone had come without intention.


“Please tell me you don’t mean the child screaming,” Aubrey teased. “‘Because that would just be all kinds of icky.”


Ian sighed and shot her a look of disgust. “The other one, of course. His…I don’t know? Brother?”


“Resemblance…” Ian tilted his head.


Another shriek echoed through the food court and Ian watched Jordan cringe and drop closer to the child.


“You should go say hello,” Aubrey said, gathering handles into her fist, but Ian was already lifting himself from the chair. “Okies,” she called after him. “I’ll just be here. Getting all this stuff. Don’t worry about me or anything.”


Chapter 5