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

“You promised to take care of me if I got sick or hurt.” Reggie frowned.


“But I was the one who caused you to get hurt.”


“No, Jay and Billy shot me and would have killed the both of us if they could have managed to do it. We’re alive and safe because we were together.”


“You’ll be out of work for at least seven weeks and have to have physical therapy for three months, all because of me. I refuse to see you hurt again.” Mark got stubborn.


“Baby, all this is, is an inconvenience. If you were staying in the efficiency, you’d be dead and that I couldn’t live with. Until this is over, you’re going to stay with me here and at the house in my bed where you belong.”


Before Mark could answer, Bobby came in the room. “Jason and Zach went home. Keith and I came, we’re in the waiting room. Bert wants to come in to say goodbye. He has to go back to Cornell.”


“It’s Wednesday evening,” Bobby answered.


Chapter 26