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

“That’s the one, Uncle Mark, from the story. Papa read it to me.”


The whole table laughed. Kitty had three Easter baskets, several stuffed animals, and three chocolate bunnies.


Mark turned to Edith. “I don’t envy you your job for the next week. Kitty is going to be on a constant sugar high.”


“Just because she has it doesn’t mean she has to eat it all at once.” Edith laughed.


Zach gave a heartfelt, “Good thinking.”


“What did the Easter Bunny get Kitty-kat from her Daddy and Papa?”


“I got a big box with a swing set and playhouse in it, just like Caroline’s.”


“Where are Gloria, Caroline and Alan today?” Reggie asked.


“They went to Alan’s family for Passover and Vince is with Sandy’s folks in Colts Neck,” Zach answered. “They spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with us. Next year we’ll change it around although we’ll always have Caroline’s family for Christmas because Alan’s folks are Jewish.”


Chapter 23