“I’m Merle Justice, and I’m extremely grateful to you. A friend designed the clothes for me, and I’d hate for those assholes to ruin them.” How does my tux look?” He stepped back and wiped sand from his butt. “No, that’s okay.” Funny how that gave him a little flip in the stomach. “Was that fun?” The big man smiled, and huge dimples popped out in his cherub face. “Okay.” The giant reached down, grasped Merle at the waist, and whoa-sent him flying to his feet.

“Uh, I guess you can help me up, and we’ll check it out.” Yes, on closer inspection the face might have been a choirboy’s-on the body of the Jolly Green Giant. “I hope you fucking drown.” He rubbed his neck and tried to get a full breath into his lungs. “Go now.”īrother Two released Merle and ran like a rabbit toward the water as Merle collapsed onto the damp sand. “You should go too.” Sasquatch stepped forward again. They’d melted into the dark the second they got the chance. “It will be very bad for you if you hurt him, you know? But if you let him go, I won’t hurt you.” He looked over his shoulder. Sasquatch frowned, an oddity on what appeared to be a young, pretty face. The arm around Merle’s neck trembled and tightened convulsively. Is the guy nuts? “It’s very hard to break a person’s neck, did you know that?” He walked slowly forward.

Sasquatch cocked his head and gave that weird smile again. But Edge has secrets of his own, and David’s ex-lover will never be happy without David under his fist.Then the giant turned to Brother Two, who still held his arm painfully around Merle’s throat.īrother hissed in Merle’s ear, “Don’t come any closer or I’ll break his neck.” David’s the first man to ever compete with Edge for Gareth’s passion. But Gareth’s volleyball partner, Edge, who’s equally hot, makes the lovers’ lives miserable.įor Gareth, a lifetime of hiding his orientation-and his attraction-from his best friend, Edge, as well as everyone else around him, adds up to hurt and frustration. Still, when the delicious Gareth Marshall proves his interest by coming out to his team, David succumbs to his attraction. A “pumped up” version of the *Volley Balls* story, twice as long as the original.Ī double dose of alpha male might be better than one.ĭespite just getting out of an abusive relationship with an asshole alpha, David Underwood’s wandering glance lands on two hot members of the Australian volleyball team on Laguna Beach and gets him harassed again.

Fool of Main Beach by Tara Lain