Sex can be a dangerous business. So can love. On the worst day of his life, Wren Gallagher wants oblivion when he steps into Tricks for a drink. When a mysterious stranger steps up to pay his tab, he offers Wren the key to fulfilling his dreams of prosperity and true love. But appearances are not always what they seem. His savior owns the escort agency ? Louer, and he wants the young and handsome Wren as part of his stable of men-for-hire. Down on his luck, Wren figures, why not? He needs the money. When he joins, though, he doesn't count on meeting Rufus, another escort with whom he falls hopelessly in love. But their love story will have to overcome the obstacles of not only trading love for money, but ? Louer's dark -- and deadly -- secrets.

A Dangerous Game

But for now they were simply two men in a kitchen in a place neither of them could call home. They were little more, Wren surmised, than strangers, thrown together by a bizarre set of circumstances. They now had nothing, really, to bind them together.


He should just move on. Forget about Rufus. Wren was sure Rufus would forget him, perhaps as soon as he went out on a call from his next trick.


The practical thing was to get his stuff together and get out. He didn’t know where, but that was no longer any concern of Rufus’s.


He could think this way all he wanted, but his heart didn’t believe any of it. His heart wanted Wren to throw himself into Rufus’s arms, where he would declare his undying love and extol to him all the different ways their match would be one made, as the saying went, in heaven.


Chapter 58