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

“I never thought about things like I.D. and school and how I was going to support us if I couldn’t even give a Social Security number. I just wanted to make him safe and I ended up fucking us both over, big time. Now he’s eight years old and he can’t even spell his own name.”


Ian wiped the corner of Justin’s eye with his thumb. “Maybe not, but he can play piano.”


Justin laughed quietly and Ian grinned. “Come on, let’s get some sleep. We’ll figure this disaster out tomorrow, okay?”


“Yes,” Ian said firmly. “I promise.”Fine


Ian felt the knock as much as he heard it, as Cole stiffened beside him as though the child had morphed into a two-by-four. When the second one came, as brusque as the first but louder, Cole began to make a sound in his throat like the whirring of a helicopter. Justin tumbled from the bed as quickly as Ian did, both of them startled.


Chapter 37