by Ava March
“Of course. How could you doubt?” Max asked, as if the answer was so obvious Tristan was a simpleton for even asking.
“It’s not that I doubt. It’s more...I want to make certain. I want to hear it from you.” Max hadn’t returned to his old habits when they’d returned to Hampshire. He did not spend all day behind his desk. He no longer wore that...cloak of heavy responsibility that had once weighed him down. He devoted his mornings to the dukedom, seemed to fully enjoy spending time outside of his study with Tristan, was as voracious yet as considerate as always inside the bedchamber, and if Tristan wasn’t mistaken, Max had had a jolly good time when his uncles had come down for a spot of hunting recently. Uncles who had turned out to be very nice gentlemen and who hadn’t batted an eye at Tristan accompanying the group on their hunting excursion, even though he’d proved himself to be a very poor shot. “You asked me, so that means I can ask you.”
Max let out another sigh, a shade playful, a shade self-conscious. “Yes, I am happy. Very much so. Ridiculously so. I don’t believe my life could get more perfect.” He arched a brow. “Satisfied?”
Tristan chuckled, his heart light, not only with his own happiness, but with Max’s as well. “Very much so.”
They gathered their greatcoats from the rack near the study door. Max made to reach for the knob, but before his hand could close around it, Tristan grabbed his arm. Pulled Max to him, and slanted his mouth over a startled Max’s.
How he loved kissing this man.
But before lust could grab hold of him, Tristan took a step back, releasing Max.
“What was that for?”
Tristan shrugged. “Because I love you.”
Max smiled. “And I love you, too, with all my heart.”
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The men take over in this steamy collection of male/male historical erotic romance from Ava March, available now!
The Brook Street Collection
Regency London—where polite manners and spotless reputations reign supreme. Yet behind the closed doors of three elegant town houses along Brook Street, passion and lust rule as gentlemen dare to risk scandal by falling in love...
In Thief, a lord intent on his first decadent night with a man finds love when he picks up a thief in a gambling hall. In Fortune Hunter, a man determined to marry an heiress instead falls in love with a wealthy young gentleman. And in Rogues, two of London’s most notorious rakes find out if their friendship can turn into something so much more...
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