For more than a year, Reggie Mitchell has been sitting at the end of the bar in the Sunset Club waiting for Mark Randall to see him as something other than a customer. He's been in love with Mark for close to two years, but Mark only sees him as a rich college kid trying to go slumming with a bartender. Then Mark gets in trouble helping Reggie's friend Bobby.<br><br>Now a violent ex-lover is threatening Mark. Reggie offers Mark the safe haven of his basement apartment. Can Reggie convince Mark that his safe haven is his arms instead?

Waiting for Mark

“No, don’t need them. Jason has them in case you get locked out, but I thought you’d be more comfortable if I didn’t have them.”


Mark blushed, thanking God that Reggie couldn’t see him. “I’ll tell the guys you’re on your way.”


The others left and Reggie and Mark were breaking up the pizza boxes to take out to the recycling. “I see you brought nothing but clothes and a computer. I don’t want to be nosy, but Jason made good money at the Sunset Club, yet Bert said you lived in a furnished efficiency and didn’t even own a toaster oven.”


“I had a mother to support and a hospital bill to pay, it took me five years to get out from under. Now that I finally have some breathing room, Billy Cruz comes back,” Mark said with some heat mixed with despair.


Chapter 6