A peek into Kom's childhood
Matt snickered at Kom’s obvious humiliation. He couldn’t resist teasing the scarred warrior. “Poor widdle guy. Mommy and daddies won’t let him be a big man who’s all grown up.”
Kom narrowed his eyes at him and softly growled.
“The doting parents,” Avir chuckled. “Kom was accident-prone as a child. I’m betting it’s the reason they behave the way they do.”
“Were you?” Matt knelt on the lounger next to Kom, who’d sprawled as if he’d been wrecked there.
“I believed in taking every opportunity life offered to explore and try stuff out. Safety was never a concern.”
“That’s how he got my attention.” Avir grinned at Kom. “I was seventeen, I think, when my parents gave a party for local business executives to forge professional relationships. The event was on the beach. I saw this wild Nobek boy running everywhere, one or two of his parents constantly giving chase. He climbed dunes and rocks, ran into the surf and swam for open ocean, crawled under the caterers’ tables, and dug holes several guests stepped in. A couple fell. You were nonstop, my Nobek.”
“I was only twelve,” Kom chuckled. “It was my last home visit prior to puberty, when I became too temperamental to leave training camp until the hormones calmed down.”
“I’d never noticed anyone so full of life and determination to have fun,” Avir told Matt. “You wouldn’t expect a kid in his teens to be vetting eventual clanmates. I was determined to learn what sort of man Kom would grow up to be after I saw him carrying on. I kept a close watch on him as my potential Nobek as he got older.”
Releasing early 2023
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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