The nightmare comes true
The group crowding around him moved apart a little, and he saw the club beyond them, the people crowding tables and enjoying their night out.
His gaze fell on him, standing between a couple of tables a few feet away. He watched as Matt was embraced and kissed by men.
A thrill of terror rushed through Matt. It’s just your imagination, like before. He isn’t here.
But it was the monster he always saw in his hallucinations, his father Sven. This time it was his uncle Valter, and he was walking toward Matt. He was there, and he was coming for them.
Matt staggered back a step. Kom looked in the direction he stared. His smile fled in an instant, and a growl issued from his lips as he took a step that partially obstructed Matt’s view.
“What—?” Masok started.
The familiar snarling voice rose above the nearby conversation. “Step aside. I will speak to my nephew!”
“Son of a bitch!” Avir swore. He pushed Matt further back, also moving to block Valter from reaching him.
“You were warned to leave him alone.” Matt couldn’t view Kom’s expression, only his and Avir’s wide torsos as they formed a living barricade between nephew and uncle.
“Get out. Matt’s nothing to you.” It sounded as if Avir spoke through gritted teeth.
“He’s a foul, hell-bound pervert, as are you. This is his only chance to repent his crimes. Matthew! Stop hiding behind these deviants and do your duty to the man who raised you!”
There was a strange roaring in Matt’s ears, overcoming Valter’s hectic shouts. Darkness crowded the edges of his vision and crept inward.
From a great distance, he heard himself say, “No. No, I can’t. I can’t. No more.”
The roaring eclipsed everything then. He felt as if he were falling, but his sight had been reduced to a pinhole, through which he couldn’t see anything. Couldn’t see Valter attack his clan, couldn’t see him hurt them. Then the mote of light winked out.
The roaring died, replaced by silence. Quiet darkness swallowed Matt.
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His past demons have returned, and only a Kalquorian clan can save him.
Matthew Larsen should be happy.
Reunited with the Nobek he fell in love with years ago, welcomed into a clan
determined to give him a better life, he has everything he never imagined
possible. However, he’s haunted by the hellish past and certainty it will
reclaim him.
Nobek
Kom spent years searching for Matt. Their reunion and his clanmates’ acceptance
of the troubled Earther seemed to be all that stood in the way of the perfect
future. His Earther love isn’t so easily rescued, however. Even a warrior can’t
protect someone against his nightmares.
Dramok Avir and Imdiko Masok are devoted to the beautiful Earther Kom brought home. Loving such a gentle soul isn’t a problem. Saving him from monsters, real and imagined, is another matter when Matt’s worst fears come true and the terrors of the past rise once again to drag him into the abyss.
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