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

“Then we’ll have to go out and buy you more clothes.”


Mark frowned at Reggie. “No, you’re not dressing me and I’m still doing the lawn and the bushes,” he said with a bit of his old belligerence.


“But you’re not paying rent because you’re going to live with me. Bobby and Jason are coming this afternoon to move your stuff upstairs,” Reggie replied calmly.


“No, I guess I’m not paying rent.” Mark conceded.


Cecily served them homemade biscuits with the beef stew.


Bobby and Jason arrived at three. Zach and Keith were at the club preparing for the re-opening, Mark couldn’t wait to see it. Bobby did the drawings for the remodel since Zach and Keith were finally able to buy the vacant lot next to the club and expand. On one of his visits to the rehabilitation facility, Bobby brought the plans for the expansion. Mark was dying to see what the club looked like now that Bobby’s plans had been brought to fruition.


Chapter 38