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Axel followed Clint’s stare to the younger of the two dancers. He’d told Axel he had instructed Gavin to leave the Blue Grotto and come to the Phoenix. So the youngest of the dancers was…Gavin?
    Axel inspected him more closely. He was almost “pretty” with his ultra-lean, supple body, black hair just a little shorter than Axel’s own, soft facial features. In many ways, he was reminiscent of Angel.
    “Great,” Gabriel said and chuckled. “A hot little number. Ricky has taken it upon himself to teach him the ways.” He nodded towards the older boy on stage whose body was snug up against Gavin’s ass, hands on his hips, guiding Gavin’s movements. Gabriel’s smile softened and he looked at Clint. “He seems like a good kid. I can’t imagine him in a fucking shithole like the Blue Grotto.”
    “Fuck,” Clint muttered. “After being in that place, you want to peel off your fucking skin.”
    Gabriel laughed, nodding emphatically.
    His eyes drifting across the club, Axel’s stare settled on a closed door at the far side. The club owner’s office. And the room in which Axel had been offered his redemption the day Angel and Maddy had pardoned his sins against them. He flinched when the door suddenly opened and a tall, blond, well-built man emerged. Axel instantly recognized him as Gabriel’s boyfriend –and another of his rescuers that night at the apartment. Behind him, a man of equal height and similar build also stepped out of the office, his short dark hair neatly styled and eyes nearly black as night.   Angel’s boyfriend .
    The memory of the power in the man as he’d burst through the apartment door that night, a raging storm of fury, vengeance and…fear. Fear for angel –the love of his life.
    How had Wade survived the man’s burning rage?   Why   had he survived?
    You should have killed him for what he did to Angel.
    Axel hugged the pup a fraction tighter, careful not to squeeze too hard, and quickly averted his eyes when both men stared at him with the same mildly stunned look as Gabriel.
    Was Angel’s boyfriend as forgiving as Angel? As the man approached, Axel was afraid to meet his eyes and discover the truth for himself.
     
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    The intrigue in the eyes of the three younger men informed Clint he wasn’t getting away without offering up an explanation for Axel’s presence. Behind closed doors, alone with Axel, everything was simple. Out here, in a world that knew him as one thing and one thing only…things became more complicated. And not only for himself. Axel was doing nothing to draw attention to himself, though his presence alone drew all focus to him.
    “I asked the boy to give you my jacket,” he spoke to Gabriel, his tone firm and steady as if nothing about any of this was out of the ordinary. “Do you have it?”
    “Even had it washed,” Gabriel smirked.
    “Thanks.”
    “What the hell were you doing at the Grotto?” Disgust pinched Gabriel’s face as he moved around behind the bar.
    “Dealing with a scumbag,” Clint mumbled. Bringing up Quinton’s name to Gabriel was something he avoided as much as possible these days, after the hell Gabriel had endured at the man’s hand. Clint wanted those memories to fade as much as possible, for himself as well as for Gabriel and Cole. And everyone who loved Gabriel.
    “Your jacket.” Gabriel came out from behind the bar and handed Clint the denim coat. He glanced at Axel then reached out and scratched the pup’s head. “This the pup we’ve been hearing about?” An amused smile tweaked his lips.
    Clint frowned. “What?” But then it dawned on him –Gavin. Of course he would have told them how he had met Clint. “Yeah.” Clint turned and looked at Axel who seemed unwilling to raise his eyes. He still felt like an outsider. One of the “bad guys” who had done Angel wrong. And within the Phoenix, Angel was deeply loved. Clint knew enough about these boys to know that if Angel had forgiven Axel, then they were