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

Their time together now was so precarious. Who knew what horror awaited them outside? Who knew, really, if Rufus would live to see another day, especially if there was some faceless, heartless soul out there at this very moment, sharpening and readying a knife intended for Rufus’s heart? Wren shuddered—for more than one reason.


Wren reached up, pulled Rufus’s face down to his own so their lips were so, so close, and whispered the romantic endearment that lovers through the ages have always longed to hear. “Just shut up and kiss me.”


There was no more talk after that. There was only the slap of a body slamming against another body, whispered sighs, protracted moans, and the squeaking of the bedsprings, which took only minutes to reach a crescendo, the bed legs actually rising up from the floor to bang against the hardwood below.


Afterward they lay sweating, breathless, arms and legs still intertwined, the smell of sweat and come heavy in the air.


Chapter 72