Eric and Ellison Gant, better known as Sin and Saint, were opposite sides of the same coin. They epitomized the nicknames given to them by their friends in the band Executioners. One thing Sin and Saint did well was fight, and being inseparable meant they had a lot of disagreements, but one thing they agreed on was that Sheriff Camden Pelter was theirs. The older, stoic man didn’t agree, yet they were determined to change his mind.
Camden Pelter had the daunting job of turning the Powers Sheriff Department around. The residents of the Georgia town didn’t have much faith or respect in the deputies serving them. That’s where he came in, and he was determined to do his job. That was easier said than done with two annoying brothers, Sin and Saint, who dogged his every step. No way in hell was he getting mixed up in the chaos that was the Gant Twins. Now if only he could get them to listen and realize they didn’t have a chance of changing his mind.
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Prologue
Everyone saw him as the leader. The one who would
throw down his life for his team, but he was in a different universe at
Brawlers bar. His cousin, Scary, owned the place with his husbands, Tank and
Elijah. The biggest and most dangerous man he’d ever met was at a corner booth with his arms around his
men, and fuck, he was jealous. Camden Pelter raised his perspiring beer bottle
to his mouth and took a long draw. He
couldn’t remember the last time he relaxed enough for a beer or simply to hang
out.
He’d
come here for an operation, and he was supposed to be right back out of town. That
was two days ago. The Powers, Georgia, Sheriff had been into some shit. He came
to town to help bring the corrupt fucker down before the racist and homophobic
bastard tried to take out Scary’s crew for good.
He and his cousin weren’t on the best terms. The last time they’d butted heads, he’d locked
Scary up, and their grandmother had
nearly disowned him. When Scary and his crew went silent after the shooting of
the Sheriff, he thought he was going to have to threaten Scary again, but
Elijah had come to the rescue by brokering a bit of a deal. He did like his
cousin’s extremely handsome husband. How the fuck Scary got him, he didn’t know and sure as fuck didn’t
understand it.
“Hey,
handsome, can I get you another.” Twitch leaned on the bar.
The tiny man was married to a beast named Crave. He’d never met a man he’d call
beautiful in his life, but Twitch was so much
so, it made him uncomfortable. He wasn’t
in the closet, but he didn’t advertise. In his line of work, the testosterone
and machismo went right along with the homophobia. He needed to depend on his
team to have his back when shit went nuclear during operations. A split-second
hesitation could end with a suit showing up to notify your next of kin.
“Your man
already threatened my nuts if I even smiled at you, beautiful.”
Twitch’s
super sweet and lovely smile was enough to make someone nauseous.
“How else
will I make my tips if I don’t seduce them with my overwhelming gorgeousness?”
“Darlin’, even on your worse day you probably
turn heads.”
“You do know I’m married, right?”
“Doesn’t
mean I can’t appreciate the view, ain’t that right?”
He couldn’t contain his smile at the sweet little blush that spread
across Twitch’s tanned cheeks. How a man married to Crave could
still blush fucking shocked him. The kid was cute, and from what he’d seen, Twitch was genuinely sweet and caring. He
didn’t see that much anymore.
It was nice
to flirt even if he knew the boy was taken.
“There’s a few boys appreciating the fine form
sitting in front of me right now.”
“Doubt
that.”
Soft fingertips touched his stubble covered cheek and
turned his head toward the stage. Executioners, they were the house band and made up of the roughest sons of bitches he’d ever met. That’s when he noticed them, perfect and blond,
even more beautiful than Twitch and they
were staring right at him. He gripped Twitch’s wrist with a gentle pressure and
slowly lowered the man’s hand to the bar.
“I don’t do jailbait.”
Just looking at them had his jeans fitting too fucking
tight and he released Twitch to bring his attention back to his drink.
“Twenty-one
isn’t jailbait. Sin and Saint are grown men.”
“Not grown
enough for a forty-three-year-old man.” He darted another glance at the stage,
but luckily those two boys weren’t looking at him. Fuck, but they had him
thinking shit he shouldn’t. Like if their blond hair would be as soft as it
looked wrapped around his fist. He clenched his jaw and forced himself to look
away.
“You old men
pay too much attention to age or is your sexy ass still in the closet?”
“Would I be
here if I was in the closet?”
“I don’t
know. Your cousin owns the place.”
“I’m not in
the closet, but I don’t advertise either.”
“Maybe you
should. You’re single.”
“I like
being single.” The lie tasted bitter on his tongue. It wasn’t that he minded
being single, but his existence had become
pretty lonely since his SWAT days. He didn’t have the time to invest, and his
undercover assignments didn’t allow for time to spend with a partner. In his
mind, that hadn’t seemed fair to someone who could potentially mean a lot more
to him than a casual hookup.
Twitch snorted. “Those glances at Sin and Saint say otherwise.”
“Sin and
Saint, don’t they have real names?” Even though the names seemed perfect, he
didn’t like them, and he wasn’t going to
call his—nothing his was in this bar.
“Sin is
Eric, and Ellison is Saint, but I don’t think they
answer to them. Last I heard their mom started calling them Sin and Saint too.”
“I won’t be
calling them Sin and Saint.”
“Does that
mean you’ll be calling them because they’re headed this way. Good luck.”
He nearly hollered for Twitch when the little man
darted away. He was a grown ass man so he could handle two pretty boys. Their
platinum blond hair tousled around their beautiful faces. Fuck, he caught sight
of himself in the mirror behind the bar,
and he looked old, well, ancient compared to them. The silver patch in his
goatee stood out starkly and reminded him he wasn’t in his twenties or even thirties anymore.
Just
don’t be an asshole, Camden, he ordered
himself. His hand locked tight around the bottle as the most beautiful men he’d ever seen flanked him on either side. Their slim bodies pushing in beside him, and he instantly
knew which one was Sin. The boy pressed in tight to his side, while Ellison,
Saint, kept a bit of distance. In his peripheral, he noticed the innocent pink
that stained Ellison’s cheeks and he wanted to reach for him. Chase the
spreading color under the pads of his calloused fingers.
“Well,
hello, sexy, you’re new.”
Eric’s
soft fingertips stroked up his bare arm only being
stopped by the rolled cuff of his dress shirt. His stomach tightened.
“Camden.”
“You’re
Scary’s cousin.”
Ellison’s voice was softer than Eric’s, and tinged
with a hint of shyness that made him want to turn to him.
“Why don’t
you come home with us, Camden?”
“Why don’t
you go play with someone your own age,
boy?”
He didn’t know where the brusque tone came from, but he didn’t want to be some notch for boys with Daddy
issues. It was a rage in his abdomen. An emotion he’d never experienced before
burned through his veins, and he couldn’t
think beyond getting as far away from Eric and Ellison as he could. Part of him wanted to put them over his knee for
propositioning some strange man in a bar. The
other part, the one he needed to rein in,
wanted to take them home.
“Twitch,” he
called for the bartender and pulled enough from his pocket to cover his few beers, plus a generous tip.
“Goodnight,
boys.”
Eric looked at him like he was insane to turn them
down and maybe he was, but he was a grown ass man,
and he knew what he wanted. Ellison avoided glancing at him and instead of
embarrassment or shyness, the young man looked ashamed. He pushed back from the
bar and started to walk away.
“Goodnight,
Camden.”
Ellison’s sweet voice called to him,
and he imagined what it would sound like when the boy screamed his name as he
was buried balls deep. Angry with himself, he strode toward the door.
He knew what he wanted, something or someone only his,
someone to care for and make happy. A quick fuck he wasn’t and twenty-one was too fucking young for what he had in mind.
That didn’t keep his mind from wandering to the twin temptations he’d left back
at Brawlers, and it didn’t disappear even as he drove in the opposite direction
of Powers, Georgia, and from the things he knew he couldn’t have.
ABOUT THE J.M. DABNEY
J.M. Dabney is a multi-genre author who writes mainly LGBT
romance and fiction. She lives with a constant diverse cast of characters in
her head. No matter their size, shape, race, etc. she lives for one purpose
alone, and that’s to make sure she does them justice and give them the happily
ever after they deserve. J.M. is dysfunction at its finest and she makes sure
her characters are a beautiful kaleidoscope of crazy. There is nothing more she
wants from telling her stories than to show that no matter the package the
characters come in or the damage their pasts have done, that love is love. That
normal is never normal and sometimes the so-called broken can still be amazing.
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