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

“Good. Can I take Mark upstairs and give him a shot?” Greg looked around for Bobby.


“Sure, the guest suite is opposite the master suite on the right. That’s where Reggie and Mark are staying for the time being.” Bobby waved him upstairs.


Reggie got up and knelt next to Mark. “Go with Greg, baby. Leave us to handle Billy. You’re too upset right now. When Bobby needed help, we managed it, same with Jason. We’ll handle this too.” Reggie kissed him and gave him to Greg.


“Try and sleep after you take that shot. I don’t like the way you look and if you don’t get more color in your face, I may slap you in the hospital again,” Cisco told Mark.


“You don’t mean that. I can’t let Reggie face Billy by himself. It’s my fault—” Mark was filled with outrage.


Cisco cut him off. “Once you get to know me better, you’ll find I never say anything I don’t mean.”


“Greg, you talk to him,” Reggie was exasperated. “It’s not his fault.”


Chapter 61