Lyle Atwood's company is hired to costume a party given by multi-millionaire Warner Radclyffe. As he and his employees begin preparations for the job, Lyle begins to feel as if someone is watching him. Then he meets Damien Sauvage, the newest tenant in the apartment building where he lives. Damien tells Lyle that he's a waiter, and when Lyle confides in him that he thinks he's being stalked, Damien offers to help find out who it is. What he neglects to tell Lyle is he actually works for Radclyffe, who wants him to protect Lyle from a very powerful enemy. As Damien gains Lyle's confidence, he becomes attracted to the younger man -- an attraction that Lyle reciprocates. He fights his feelings, knowing Lyle will hate him when he finds out his secret -- and even more so when he learns what Damien really is. Radclyffe orders Damien to continue the job, as he has a secret of his own involving Lyle. A secret that cannot be revealed until the night of the party. Can Lyle survive what is to come, or will the lies of omission be the death of him -- or worse?

Lies of Omission

“Yeah. Be careful how you move, though. You’ll knock everything off the dresser.”


With a laugh, Damien dispensed with them. “Do not ask where they go. I haven’t a clue. They just do.”


Lyle patted the bed and Damien sat, chuckling when Lyle ran his hands over his back. “Closest thing to wings you’re going to find are my shoulder blades.”


“They’re pretty wing like.” Lyle ducked when Damien feinted a punch at him.


Damien lay back, staring at the ceiling for a moment, and then at Lyle. “So, now what?”


“We go on as before, being together after dark, I suppose. Then you go back to my father’s place in time to pose on the tower with your friends.”


“Uh-huh.” Damien snorted. “They’re very limited in their conversational skills, which is boring.”


Lyle had a question, the first of many in the days to come, he was sure. “You don’t sleep when you’re up there, do you?”


Chapter 87