The Grave Between Us (A Noah & Cole Thriller, #2)

by Tal Bauer

How quickly he’d imagined a future filled with Noah, and with Katie. How quickly that imagined future became a necessity to him. Noah was the love of his life.

“Are you sure I’m what you want?” Noah whispered again. “Cole, I’m…” His face scrunched up, and he held his breath. “You’re perfect for me.” Cole kissed him. “You’re the man I love.” And again. “You’re the man I want to be with forever.” A third kiss. “Yes, I’m sure.”

far closer than skin to skin. More like atom to atom, soul to soul. “I’m going to love you forever.”

Hunting monsters was noble, yes. But every monster hunt demanded a sacrifice, and the price was always paid in the mind, and sleepless nights, and nightmares that lived inside the bone marrow.

Cole’s doctorate, his research papers, all the court cases he’d testified in. All the accolades he’d received. None of that mattered when it came down to the love of his life lying in a ditch, his heart strangling under a collapsed lung.