New Release - A Matter of Trust

Enjoy the story of Bear and Brian as they discover that it is all A Matter of Trust.

EXCERPT

The O'Shea Hammer

Brian stood in front of Sir, praying he got this right. He said, “Sir, I don’t know if I can express myself well enough so you understand. The point is I have no choice but to continue. I love you, Sir. I will love only you for the rest of my days. It is the way of me and mine, a blessing and a curse; the O’Shea Hammer. Should I fail you, what happens to me after will not matter very much, because I will not love again.

“As for fidelity, no O’Shea has ever betrayed their fated mate once they met. Even if their destined love belonged to another whom they refused to leave, an O’Shea would be faithful to them until death and beyond. My own mother, widowed while she was still a young woman of thirty-two, never looked at another man. Infidelity is not in our make-up. I thought it would be different for me. As a Murphy and my father’s son, I did not expect to inherit as much of the O’Shea as I did. Yet, some of the traits showed themselves as soon as my father passed. Even so, as a gay man, I did not look for or expect to find the one love. Nevertheless, yesterday, when I first laid eyes on you, Sir, it struck.

“I will never willingly leave you, Sir. Another’s touch would be as abhorrent to me as it was to my mother. I cannot guarantee no one will touch me from this day forward. Even so, I can swear the only way someone would touch me would be by force, and if I were physically overtaken and I would fight back, Sir. I would never willingly succumb. I am not asking you to lower your standards for my sake. I want you to know I would never betray you by choice.”