Title: Deadly Dorian
Series: Ward Security Series #3
Author: Jocelynn Drake & Rinda Elliott
Publisher: Drake and Elliott Publishing LLC
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Length: 87K
Genre: Romance, Thriller/Suspense
Add to Goodreads
Synopsis
Someone is trying to kill Marc Foster.
Attempted poisoning was bad enough, but when the would-be killer messes with the brakes on Marc’s precious Porsche, the art dealer admits he needs help. He just wasn’t expecting help to be quite so dark and sexy.
Royce Karras loves his job at Ward Security. He’s making up for a lifetime of bad decisions and a bloody past he’d rather forget. But Marc isn’t the spoiled rich boy he thought he’d be protecting. Sticking close to Marc as his “boyfriend” gives Royce insight into his toxic family, but it also reveals a brilliant, compassionate man who completely disarms Royce. Against his better judgment, Royce finds himself falling.
But can they find a way to make it work when Royce’s past threatens to tear their lives apart? Their future hinges on a lost Renaissance painting, six Bichon Frises, and a pornographic Robin Hood.
No worries, right?
“Stop!” Marc shouted, the snap of fury cutting off his oldest brother, who’d been going on about responsibility. Marc waited and as they calmed down, he leaned against the wall, his lazy pose deceptive because Royce, standing to his side and back, could sense every rigid muscle.
“I see you’ve helped yourselves to the Chateau Latour.” He slid his hands into his pockets, but not before Royce saw one tighten into a fist. And he doubted any of the selfish people in the room heard the note of hurt in his voice. A note that cut into Royce so deeply, he stepped closer, hoping the heat from his body offered some sort of comfort.
Fuck, what must it have been like to grow up so much younger than these three? They seemed a united front—from their demands, their entitlement…to their inability to accept his sexuality. And to Royce, Marc was like a beautiful, wounded hawk that had spent its life hanging on to the side of the nest by its talons.
So, which one of these birds wanted him thrown completely from the nest?
“Marc, how dare you just disappear like that,” Richard continued as if Marc’s yell had merely been a tiny blip on his radar.
“I’m doing what I have to right now.”
The underlying threads of emotion in that short sentence slithered into Royce’s chest and tangled together into a brutal knot. He narrowed his eyes, the need to cut these people from the man’s life possibly larger than his desire to bury himself inside him. They didn’t deserve him.
Confusion crossed each face as Royce kept all his senses trained on the siblings. One of them was a damn good actor.
“What does that mean, Marc, sweetie?” This time, Lilah’s voice held her other favorite note. Soft manipulation. She sang that one with much finesse, having obviously spent her life practicing it.
Marc pinned his gaze on Lilah. “It means whatever you take it to mean.” He looked at each brother. “What all of you take it to mean.”
“You are obviously not in the right state of mind to listen to anything we say.” Gabriel brushed his light brown hair off his forehead as he moved away from the window. “I have an early surgery, so I’m going home.” Blue eyes, exactly like Marc’s, locked with his brother’s as he walked to him. Gabriel put his hands on Marc’s shoulders, then hugged him.
A more awkward hug couldn’t exist.
The doctor gave Royce the barest of nods before he left the house.
Royce stepped even closer to Marc, who slowly, deliberately, leaned back into Royce’s body. His back and ass fit him like he’d been made for Royce. And his height when he slouched like this put his neck right next to Royce’s mouth. He inhaled the alluring scent of the man deep into his lungs, then realized both Richard and Lilah were now watching. He didn’t look away as he pressed his lips to side of Marc’s neck. His hand came up to clutch Marc’s hip when Marc tilted his head just enough to give him better access.
Purchase
Drake and Elliott Publishing LLC | Amazon
Who are Drake & Elliott?
Jocelynn Drake and Rinda Elliott have teamed up to combine their evil genius to create intense gay romantic suspense stories that have car chases, shoot outs, explosions, scorching hot love scenes, and tender, tear-jerking moments. Their first joint books are in the Unbreakable Bonds series.
Website | Facebook | Twitter | eMail |Tumblr
