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

If Jess kept this up, Gideon knew he was going to hurt him. And until he heard the words, he knew he couldn’t.


Abruptly, he let Jesse go, straightening and standing back as he fisted his cock. “Open your mouth,” he ordered. He could mark his boy in other ways.


Jesse straightened, his chin tilted up, his mouth open. He looked like he could patiently wait all night in that position, but that was undermined by the racing of his heart and the hungry look in his eyes. “Please, Gideon.” The words were low and guttural, and his lips barely moved. “Let me taste you.”


The intent went straight to his gut. Groaning, Gideon tightened his grip, his hand nearly a blur as he stripped his cock. He locked eyes with Jesse, unable to look away, grateful he didn’t need to breathe. Because everything was closing in, honing in on that alley, that wall, that man, that mouth. That supplication in his brilliant blue eyes.


Chapter 23