First-year Border Patrol officers Rhys Davis and Liam Malone have been friends since second grade. When their new assignment puts them on the front line in tracking down a vicious and inhuman killer, an unearthly Soul-Eater, along the southern border, they must call on every resource at their disposal.<br><br>The most potent of these resources turns out to be memories they share from two thousand years ago, a time in the British Isles when they were partners in every way, forming an eternal bond that allowed them to defeat this same enemy in that lifetime.<br><br>Now, Rhys and Liam can't help but wonder...will crossing the line from friends to lovers in this lifetime destroy their friendship or build on it?

Borders and Shadows

Tonight they settled quickly, constraints perhaps soothed by weariness and stress. They spooned together with Liam&rsquo;s back to Rhys&rsquo; front, just as they&rsquo;d been in his recent dreams. Within moments, sleep began to blur his thoughts as a sensation of complete comfort enveloped him.


Rhys awoke in an itchy sweat. He kicked one foot free of the covers before he came fully awake. Why am I so damned hot?It was still dark and his bedroom didn&rsquo;t have direct heat. Something was different, unusual. Then he recognized he lay pressed against another body from shoulders to knees and that his stiff cock was buried between the thighs of the other person. For an instant, shock jolted through him. Oh my gods, what am I doing?


Chapter 15