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

Ian closed his eyes and resisted the urge to bang his forehead against the door in frustration. Instead he cleared his throat and turned the knob. “Maybe put him in while you fill the tub. The sound of the water might help soothe him. Put in an inch or so of warm and once he’s in, listening, switch it to lukewarm and let it trickle in. He’ll shiver but he’ll be fine.”


Jordan didn’t sound like much more than a scared kid himself.


“Ian?” he stopped Ian again. This time he waited for Ian to look back. “I love you.”


Ian told himself to be grateful for that. He told himself not to feel like it was being said just so Jordan could get the upper hand.


“I’ll be right back. Don’t lock the door.”


“Okay,” Ian laid the thermometer down and breathed a sigh of relief. “One hundred even, that’s not bad.”


Chapter 25