Stopping a murder that happened forty years earlier may be the only way to heal a tortured mind ...<br><br>Six months after Jesse Madding is brutally tortured by Marcus Brooker, he is still experiencing flashbacks, panic attacks, and jumping at his own shadow. His lovers, Gideon Keel and Emma Coolidge, would do anything to help him, but Jesse refuses to be hospitalized for treatment, or even visit a therapist. Desperate for a change, Gideon and Emma suggest a radical solution.<br><br> Jesse wants to fix his life. More than anything, he wants to be normal again. He doesn't want to live in fear. He doesn't want to be ashamed of his scarred and mutilated body. He doesn't want to shy away from Gideon's touch. Certain that the holding pattern will kill him, he agrees to Gideon and Emma's proposed solution: travel to an alternative dimension and save Marcus Brooker from witnessing Mary's grisly murder ... in order to save Brooker's soul.

Chaos and Communion

There was a moment, fleeting as it was, where Gideon wondered how Jesse felt about facing all the violence in destroying Mary’s killers. For as much as he wanted things back to normal, he’d been careful about exposing Jess to the fights, wary of eliciting memories of his time with Brooker. This was the most graphic display Jesse had seen in months. The last thing he wanted was for him to take a step back in healing.


But the fervor with which he returned Gideon’s kiss banished those thoughts. With their hard cocks rubbing against each other, Jesse’s nails digging into Gideon’s arms, all Gideon wanted was to devour his lover in ways that had been denied him for far too long.


He pulled back from the kiss with the scent of arousal spinning his head.


“Need to fuck you, boy,” he growled. “And then I think I’ll have to fuck you again.”


Chapter 22