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Heart and Soul
Evangeline Anderson
Heart and Soul
Copyright © February 2010 by Evangeline Anderson
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eISBN 978-1-60737-532-6
Editor: Sandra Rychel
Cover Artist: April Martinez
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Dedication
Dedicated to the readers who asked for another story about Valenti and O'Brian. Keep e-mailing, and I'll keep writing. I think I might have one
more in me after this. In the meantime, please enjoy
Heart and Soul
, and thanks so much for taking the time to let me know you care about the
guys.
Author's Note
While
Heart and Soul
may be read as a stand-alone book, readers would probably enjoy it more if they took the time to get to know Detectives
Valenti and O'Brian, starting with
The Assignment
, followed by
I'll Be Hot for Christmas
and then
Fireworks
. All preceding books are available at
Loose Id.
Chapter One
LA, the early '80s
“I'm takin' it.” His partner's words rang in Detective Nick Valenti's head as he walked purposefully up the broad marble steps, adjusting the gray
coveralls he was wearing that said
Chuck's Emergency Plumbing—We fix it fast
! in red letters on the back. His heart was beating a quick rhythm
in his chest, and the toolbox he carried had more than just tools in it. Under the wrenches and wire and the long metal snake to unclog drains was a
snub-nosed Viper with a full clip—a deadly surprise for anyone who crossed him. Valenti had considered wearing the gun on his body instead of
hiding it in the toolbox, but he was afraid that a suspicious bulge under the coveralls would give the game away too soon.
The disguise was necessary to get him into the huge white mansion of porn kingpin James Talbert. A huge white mansion where unspeakable
things went on, if you believed half the rumors and all the conveniently absent witnesses—most of them slender, hot little twinks who had checked
into the Talbert mansion and never checked out again. Even now those same unspeakable things might be happening to Valenti's partner, Sean
O'Brian.
Valenti shook his head. He didn't want to think about that—couldn't afford to think of it if he wanted to get O'Brian out alive. If only the stubborn
bastard hadn't been so determined to jump headlong into danger! His mind went back to their argument the month before, when Captain Harris had
offered them the risky assignment. Well, had offered it to O'Brian, anyway.
And again, O'Brian's words repeated in his mind…
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“I'm takin' it. I'm takin' it, and that's the last I wanna hear about it.” Sean O'Brian drew himself up to his full height of five feet nine and turned the
blazing power of his sea green eyes on Valenti.
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“It's not safe, O'Brian.” Valenti raked a hand through his thick black hair and frowned at the man who was so much more than his partner.
For over two years, since the dangerous undercover mission at the RamJack, a resort that represented both the most glamorous and the most
sordid aspects of gay life, Valenti and O'Brian had been lovers as well as best friends and partners. Circumstances had forced them to admit their
true feelings for each other—feelings that had come as a complete surprise since neither man had ever had a same-sex attraction before in their
lives. But the relationship they shared was about more than the ravenous lust that sparked between them when they touched. It was rooted in a
loyalty and trust so deep, it transcended the boundaries of ordinary love and friendship.
It was this trust that Valenti felt his partner was violating now by agreeing to take the mission Captain Harris had offered him without even taking
Valenti's professional concerns into consideration. Fearing for his partner, Valenti had dug deeper into the details than anyone, and he knew the
assignment was fraught with danger. Going undercover at the mansion of James Talbert—the man who was single-handedly responsible for more
illegal porn than anyone else in the country—was going to be risky business indeed. Valenti wouldn't have let the danger stop him if both he and
O'Brian were going together. But there was only one spot open at Talbert's mansion, and Captain Harris had decided O'Brian was perfect for the
job, which left Valenti out in the cold and unable to watch his partner's back.
“It's not safe,” he said again. “I wouldn't mind if we could go together, but you're going to be on your own in there. For God's sake, O'Brian, Talbert
makes gay snuff films.”
“Which is exactly why I'm takin' this case.” O'Brian leaned closer, so that his reddish blond locks brushed against Valenti's dark hair. They were
arguing in the men's room of the downtown PD, commonly called the Metro, and voices tended to carry in the tiled space. “I'm takin' it because even
though we can't admit…what we are, there's no way other guys—guys just like us—should be gettin' killed for what they are. Which is what
we
are.
Sort of, anyway. See?”
That was as close as O'Brian ever came to admitting he was gay, because gay wasn't how he thought of himself. As he had told Valenti before, he
was just a straight guy who was in love with his partner, who just happened to be another guy.
Gay or straight, hetero or homo, Valenti knew their relationship was more complicated than any label a homophobic society might try to paste on it.
The love between him and O'Brian
Heart and Soul
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went deeper than blood or bone. They weren't just partners or lovers; they were soul mates.

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