Releasing May 31. Pre-order now: Amazon, Amazon UK, Nook, Apple, Kobo, Smashwords, print
Even during "war," Sletran can't get Conyod out of his head.* * * *
Sletran, age 35
The surprise war game was going well. Binmej’s soldiers were formidable, but Erybet’s were on their way to decisive victory. Sletran’s squads had “killed” or captured three enemy divisions. The Nobek couldn’t have been prouder of those under his command as they marched their angry prisoners to the holding pen.
Like any of his breed, a good fight had his blood up. He knew beneath their training armor, the warriors duking it out on the sim battlefield were aroused to a man. The barracks would resound with the sounds of fucking late into the night.
His thoughts, when there was a pause in the fighting and he wasn’t consumed by the obsessive determination to overcome Binmej’s men, went straight to Conyod. They’d had an amazing night, and he was primed for another.
Not only for sex. He was amazed at how the traumatized youth had grown to a self-assured man. It hinted at a strength that while not Nobek, was impressive on its own merit. A strength Sletran hadn’t witnessed when Conyod had been a teen. Then, he’d been a boy haunted by misplaced guilt. Conyod had been caught between loving and rejecting his parents, who’d been too damaged by loss to properly care for him.
Sletran had distanced himself to discourage Conyod’s infatuation when it had become obvious. However, they’d communicated enough since then for him to know the Imdiko’s relationship with his mother and fathers remained strained. Thanks to therapy, Dramok Tuher and Imdiko Sema had recognized their contributions to Conyod’s trauma. They’d done their utmost to relax their obsessive vigilance over their surviving son, and the relationship between the three was the healthiest it had been since Hoslek’s death.
Matara Lafec and Nobek Vel continued to push the limits Conyod had established for his independence. He was forced on occasion to remind them to back off when they overstepped the boundaries he’d set.
He was his own man now. Sletran was delighted on several levels to witness it, and he wanted to experience more of Conyod’s companionship. He wanted to know everything about the intelligent and stunning Imdiko he’d never seen coming.
As his primary squad reached base camp to the cheers of their side, a soldier jogged to Sletran. “Group Commander Erybet wishes me to inform you High Commander Zyrf has declared our group the winner of the games. Because your squad defeated the largest number of the enemy, Commander Erybet requests you join him and High Commander Zyrf at the observation post to offer their congratulations personally for a job well done.”
Sletran grinned. “It will be my pleasure.” After all the pomp and talk, he’d com Conyod to learn if they could meet for dinner…and later, maybe the kind of congratulations he’d enjoy best.
* * * *
He
needed a hero and found two. Can love rescue him again?
Nobek
Sletran never took Imdiko Conyod’s infatuation seriously when he rescued him
years before. When Conyod shows up in his life again as a strong and successful
man instead of a traumatized victim, Sletran has to reconsider the one he once
rejected and now can’t imagine life without.
Conyod has
never given up on the man he considers his hero. Sletran is all he’s ever
wanted for a clanmate, and he’s determined to win him at last. But the past refuses
to be laid to rest. When Conyod convinces Sletran to see him for who he’s
become, will who he was resurface and destroy the love they’re building?
Sletran’s
commanding officer Dramok Erybet is instantly fascinated by Conyod when the
soldier brings his love on base for a visit. However, Sletran isn’t the Nobek
Erybet feels is right for him. When he rejects the Nobek, he risks losing
Conyod too.
Against the backdrop of heartbreaking childhood tragedy, a ghost who haunts Conyod and his grief-stricken family, and military brass determined to oust Erybet from the rank he’s worked so hard to reach, three men must come to terms with who they are. When tragedy strikes, the nightmares of the past must be faced and buried once and for all. Conyod, Sletran, and Erybet must dare everything to find redemption and hold on to each other.
Releasing May 31. Pre-order now: Amazon, Amazon UK, Nook, Apple, Kobo, Smashwords, print
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