Overview

Vale has given Kieran everything—a career, a collar, a purpose written in pain.

Now he wants to give him the ocean.

In this 10,000-word bonus story, where Kieran experiences the Pacific for the first time, and Vale admits to desires he's too embarrassed to justify. Between cold water and warm skin, breath held and breath stolen, they discover that even the darkest love stories deserve a moment of grace—or something close enough to call by that name.

A ring waits in Vale's pocket. A question burns on his tongue. And somewhere in the space between salt and silk, forever stops being a threat and starts being a promise.