Trigger

TRIGGER

I’m a monster hiding in human skin. Shutting off my emotions should not be this easy. But because it is, I’m the man Johnston calls on when he needs a job taken care of.

Which is how I end up bunking at the Texas Charter’s clubhouse for the next foreseeable future. At the same clubhouse where my club brother and his woman live.

The same woman I’ve been inside on more than one occasion. And the same club brother I secretly crave.

But Chase doesn’t swing that way. I know I have to remain content just being with his woman and seeing him at his most vulnerable when we’re with her together.

And I am content… until the Russians kidnap Chase.

It’s time for everyone to find out just how much Satan resides in my veins. They’ll pay for taking him from me and our woman.

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CHASE

Having Trigger in the clubhouse, sharing Sophia with him… I’m okay with it. I trust him. He’s a brother to me in every meaning of the word except blood.

Except now, I’m noticing things I shouldn’t about him. I’m craving him as much as I crave the woman I hold in my arms every night.

I can’t handle it. Can’t wrap my head around this gay-for-you moment I seem to be having. But it’s not a moment, is it? Because these feelings aren’t going away. They’re festering. Taking over.

And just when I get ready to give in to him, just as I’m on my way home to give this a try for all of our sakes, I’m run off the road.

I’m taken. Strapped to a table. Ripped of my humanity. Nothing more than a slab of meat.

I’ve met my fate, and my only regret is that I didn’t tell Trigger how I feel. That I don’t have a chance to give my woman everything she deserves.