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

“I don’t think so,” Gideon growled. “You fuck with my head, and you expect to get rewarded? That’s not the way this works, and you know it.”


Jesse immediately straightened, his attention going to the floor. “I know. I’m sorry, Sir.”


He prowled around Jesse, knowing that it would take little more than another kiss like that to forget all the anguish Jess had put him through that day. It was safer behind, where the temptation was less, and he had to deliberately tear his gaze away from Jesse’s luscious ass, red and hot and begging to be fucked. Instead, he focused on his enflamed back, pressing against it in order to absorb even more of his lover’s heat.


Chapter 69