Tricks can mean many things: sex partners, deceptions, even magic ... or maybe all three.<br><br>Arliss is a gorgeous young dancer at Tricks, the hottest club in Chicago’s Boystown. Sean is the classic nerd, out of place in Tricks, but nursing his wounds from a recent breakup. When the two spy each other, magic blooms.<br><br>But this opposites-attract tale does not run smooth. What happens when Arliss is approached by one of the biggest porn producers in the business? Can he make his dreams of stardom come true without throwing away the only real love he’s ever known? And ... will it even matter if the mysterious producers realize their dark intentions?

Tricks

What could he say to get his Arliss out of making this movie? What words would compel someone who was probably coldhearted and with his eye only on the financial bottom line to lighten up, to listen to reason?


He had tried calling Arliss several times throughout the day, but he must have shut his phone off. The separation and not being able to talk to his lover ate away at him, leaving a gnawing emptiness in his gut he had no idea how to fill. He wasn’t hungry. He wasn’t thirsty. He had neither eaten nor drunk anything the whole day, yet prosaic desires like hunger and thirst eluded him.


He only wanted Arliss back in his arms. Home. Sean simply needed to set the clock back to before Arliss had left for work only the night before—it seemed so long ago, now—back to when things were normal. They had been a couple, happy, in love. Could things ever be put right again?


Chapter 54