HARLEY’S HEART
Special Operations 4
After being rescued from ten months
spent in hell, all Harlan Thomas wants to do is go home to the one man whose
memory kept him alive. Trouble is, Miko is not where Harley left him.
Mitsuaki
Thomas was heartbroken when his husband didn’t come home from a mission. He
didn’t give up when the letters stopped or even when his mother-in-law had a
funeral for Harley. But when he’s forced out of his home, Miko finally admits
that maybe Harley is gone. Still, he wants to continue the dreams they had
discussed, no matter how impossible they might be.
When
Harley shows up on his doorstep, Miko is shocked to learn that he’s alive. Miko
just doesn’t know if the life he created will be enough to keep the man home
and happy.
When trouble starts, Harley and Miko
have to put aside their differences and learn to work as a team or the people
bent on keeping them apart permanently just might get their wish. With the help
of some friends, they just might have the chance to keep their little family
together.
Coming March 12th from Siren Publishing
STORY EXCERPT
"I think this is it."
Harland 'Harley' Thomas fingered the long scar running down his
cheek as he looked over to where his driver and friend, Manny, was pointing.
His heart pounded a little faster as he glanced at the driveway. He couldn't
help but chuckle when he read the ranch sign hanging over the driveway.
Crazy Acres
That sounded just about right.
He couldn't see anything of the place beyond the sign as trees
lined both sides of the driveway for as far as the eye could see. Harley nodded
to Manny and the SUV slowly turned onto the driveway.
"Damn!" Manny said as they drove past the tree line and
the view opened to show a majestic sight. He gave a low whistle as his eyes
darted over the land. "This is pretty nice, man."
Harley couldn't agree more. It was just as he had imagined, maybe
even better. Fencing lined both sides of the driveway all of the way up to the
house. The field on the passenger side of the vehicle was empty but the field
on the driver's side had several horses grazing in it, looking as if they
didn’t have a care in the world.
Beyond the house and fenced in pastures, the entire place was
surrounded by tree covered hills, like the little valley the ranch sat in was
created just for it. The driveway came to an end in a round circle right in
front of a large log cabin. Situated right inside of the circular drive was a
large oak tree with grass growing around it.
Manny brought the SUV to a stop right in front of the house.
"Do you want me to go in with you?" he asked as he cut the engine and
turned to look at Harley.
Harley grinned as he looked at Manny, and then into the backseat
where Bill and his lover Angelo were seated. He shook his head. "No, I
have this."
Harley opened the door and swung his legs down to the ground. His
feet hit the paved driveway and he grimaced when he had to reach back in for
his cane. He would have preferred doing this without a cane but if he wanted to
walk, he had to carry the damn thing with him.
As he headed toward the house, Harley’s eyes gazed over the place,
taking in the vision he had dreamt about. It looked exactly like it had in his
dreams, right down to the wraparound porch and the large front windows. He
hoped the inside looked just as he had seen it in his head as well.
Using his cane, Harley slowly made his way up the steps to the
front door. He took a moment to look around, seeing the hard work that had gone
into building the place. Besides the fenced pastures and the house, there was a
barn set just beyond the driveway. It was all so picturesque.
And perfect.
Before lifting his hand and knocking on the door, Harley drew in a
fortifying breath and then slowly blew it out. This was it. The next few
seconds could make or break him and he knew it. He had been through a
nightmarish hell, and lived for only one single reason. With any luck, that
reason was about to be his reward for staying alive.
Harley's heart felt like it was climbing into his throat and
squeezing the very breath from him when he heard a soft musical voice from
inside the house and then the door slowly opened. His breath froze in his lungs
and he found it hard to breathe when his saw a long cascade of black hair and
the soul deep caramel-brown eyes that blinked up at him through the screen door.
Harley had to literally make himself start breathing again. The
vision was so breathtaking that all he wanted to do was just stand there and
admire the man.
"Hello, Mitsuaki,"
he whispered in a voice that sounded echoed and seemed to come from far away.
"Harley-chan?" There was a slight tinge of wonder in Miko's
voice, the magical lilt pulling Harley in deeper. "You alive,
Harley-chan?"
Harley felt tears clog his throat but he managed a tremulous smile
despite them. "I'm alive, Miko." Barely, but now wasn't the time to
think about that. Harley would rather think about the beauty standing before
him. He had pretty much been thinking of nothing else for months.
Miko had haunted Harley's dreams, awake or asleep like a vision
that wrapped itself around him and brought him comfort in a time when he needed
it most. He was pretty sure the gorgeous man was the only reason he was alive
and standing on the front porch of a house he had only fantasized about instead
of dead in some drug lord’s crazy clutches in Central America.
The screen door slowly pushed open and Miko stumbled out, staring
up at Harley like he was seeing a ghost—like he wasn’t real or tangible. Miko's
hand trembled as he reached up and pressed the lightest of touches against the
side of Harley's face, his fingers as smooth as silk and as warm as the summer
sun.
"You alive, Harley-chan!"
ADULT EXCERPT
Harley felt the uneven rhythm of Miko's
breathing and knew his lover was just as affected by their closeness as he was.
He trailed his finger over Miko’s silken skin, circling his bellybutton before
moving further up his chest. He might not be able to see where his fingers were
going but he could see the response to his touch in the slow tenting in Miko’s
boxers.
“You like it when I touch you, don’t you,
Miko?”
“Hai,”
Miko groaned. “Yes.”
“You missed my
touch,” Harley murmured as he brushed his fingers over Miko’s taut nipples. The
anxious whine that fell from Miko’s lips was the man’s only response. Harley
felt a ripple of excitement roll through him at the needy little sound. “I
missed touching you, Miko.”
God, he had missed
touching his lover. Miko’s body was built to be made love to. His slim frame
fit perfectly into Harley’s arms. His soft skin and delicate bones were in such
deep contrast to Harley’s hard toned body that it was almost awe inspiring to
look at.
Miko cried out and
arched, pushing into Harley’s hand when he rolled one hard pebbled nipple
between his fingers. Harley’s mouth went dry at the sight. Miko had always been
so damn responsive to his touch, and knowing that he was the only man to ever
see Miko’s pleasure made it even more special.
Harley reached down
and grabbed the hem of Miko’s t-shirt and pulled it up. Miko lifted his arms
and Harley pulled the cotton shirt off, tossing it off the side of the bed.
Harley brushed his hands down over Miko’s chest again, pushing them down to the
edge of Miko’s boxers.
When the man
offered no protest, Harley pushed the waistband of the boxers down, freeing
Miko’s thick erection. It bounced up and slapped against Miko’s abdomen,
leaving a trail of pre-cum against Miko’s skin.
Hunger spiraled
through Harley at the sight of the hardened flesh. Miko’s cock was perfect in
his eyes—not too small and not too large, not too thin and not too thick. It
was perfect, just like Miko.
Harley heard Miko’s
breathing hitch when he wrapped his hand around him. Harley smiled and blew a
breath of air against Miko’s ear. “Do you like that, baby?” he asked as he gave
the thick shaft one long stroke with his hand.
“Hai!”
There was a glint of wonder in Miko’s eyes as
he looked up at Harley. It was too much for Harley to resist. He fisted his
hand in Miko’s hair and brought their mouths together, devouring Miko’s lips
with all of the pent up hunger he had been feeling for the last two years.
At the same time,
he stroked Miko’s cock, tightening his fingers then loosening them, drawing out
the pleasure as long as he could. The little needy noises Miko started making drowned out the
thundering of Harley’s heart.
Harley slid his hand down to Miko’s abdomen
and pulled the man back into the apex of his thighs as far as he would go. It
pushed Miko’s back right up against him, trapping Harley’s hard, aching cock
between them.
“My sweet baby,”
Harley whispered against Miko’s lips, knowing that his lover liked to hear him
talk when they were alone like this. It was one of the few times when Miko felt
he could be open and free with what he was feeling. “So beautiful and all
mine.”
“Hai, Harley-chan,” Miko whimpered. “All
yours, just yours.”
Music to my ears.
“Come for me,
Miko,” Harley demanded as he sped up the movement of his hand. The wiggling of
Miko’s body against his cock was pushing him closer to his own release and he
wanted to watch Miko come before that happened. He needed it. “Show me how much
you want me, baby.”
A knot rose in Harley’s throat when Miko
cried out and arched up. Miko’s hips thrust up, driving his cock into Harley’s
hand. Ropes of pearly white cum shot from his cock and splattered over Harley’s
hand and Miko’s abdomen.
“Damn, baby,” Harley whispered as a hot ache
grew in his throat. He leaned back against the pillows so that he could reach
down and palm his own aching cock but before he could, Miko flipped around and
swallowed him down to the root. “Miko!”
Harley’s eyes rolled back into his head as
intense pleasure swamped every nerve in his body. Harley knew it had been a
long time but he came almost embarrassingly fast. One long lick of Miko’s
tongue and a deep swallow and Harley was shouting out his release, pumping shot
after shot of cum into his lover’s mouth.
Harley closed his eyes as he collapsed back
against the pillows, panting heavily. He felt Miko move up to stretch out
beside him, and felt the tentative touch of the man’s delicate fingers on his
chest.
“You okay, Harley-chan?”
Harley smiled as he opened his eyes to stare
up at Miko. “I’m perfect, baby.”
“Not…” Miko’s worried eyes roamed over
Harley’s body. “Not too much?”
“No, love, it was just right.” Harley glanced
around then laughed. “But a washcloth would be a good idea,” he said as he held
up his cum covered hand.
“I get.” Miko bounced off the bed and ran to
the bathroom. He was back a moment later with a clean washcloth. Miko hurriedly
wiped them both down then took the washcloth back to the bathroom. The bed
bounced again when Miko came back and climbed on.
Harley held out his arm, letting out a deep
sigh as a peace he hadn’t felt in months entered his soul as Miko curled into
his side. Miko’s head rested on Harley’s chest, his finger gently stroking his
skin. Harley wrapped his arms around Miko and held him close, stroking his hand
up and down Miko’s smooth back.
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