In the year 2184, the US is divided. Half the country has moved on with the rest of the world, while in middle America, the survivors of the terrorist biological attack that split the country struggle just to stay alive. Though a century has passed, few people brave going behind the borders meant to contain the danger. Even the privatized military is reluctant to do so.<br><br>But that doesn’t stop recently discharged Sullivan Eberle. Only one thing drives him anymore -- the need to find Raphael Hamada. He doesn’t know why. He only knows he must. If that means a lifetime behind the borders, then so be it.<br><br>Rafe Hamada ran away from the real world when he was still a kid. The last thing he wants is to be found, especially by a soldier who can’t even tell him why it was so important to locate him in the first place. He’d like nothing more than for Sullivan to leave, but turning his back on a man alone and friendless is against everything Rafe stands for ...

Penny Candles

Sullivan licked his lips again. Fresh lust flared in his eyes, darkening them from their icy blue. “Please.”


It wasn’t just permission. It was a request, a yearning each had but Sullivan found the nerve to plead for.


He kissed Sullivan, then, his tongue tracing the fine seam of his husband’s mouth before slipping inside. No kiss had been as sweet as this one, not the first, not the last. This one held a special distinction, the contract sealed between them that each would spend the rest of their lives making the other as happy as possible. In that moment, Rafe wasn’t sure how he could surpass the right now, but if someone could find a way, it was Sullivan. Of that, he had no doubt.


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