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

Reggie forgot himself. “No, baby, I won’t let that happen. You’ve got friends now. You’ll never have to handle anything like this alone again.”


The Asbury Park detective spoke, “Billy Cruz has been out of prison for thirty days and already we’ve had a rash of armed hold-ups. They’ve taken out two payday cash operations in Asbury Park, one in Long Branch, and a convenience store in Wayside.”


“We think it’s Cruz and an accomplice. The MO is the same as Cruz used before prison. However, in jail he refined his technique,” Compton said with sarcasm. “We need probable cause for an arrest or a search warrant. I’d tell you to get a restraining order to protect yourself. However, with Cruz, you might as well write it on toilet paper because he’ll wipe his ass with it and do what he pleases.”


Chapter 13