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No One But You
The sequel to Shining Victory
EXCERPT (from Levi's point of view)


“Stacy, can you just let go of your notion that I’m missing out on life? I don’t feel like I am.”

“Okay. But here’s the thing, Levi. I want…”

“Just stop. I love you.”

To my utter shock, Stacy grabbed both my wrists, his powerful grip tight enough to bruise. His
gaze bored into mine, freezing me cold.

“You stop, Levi. You listen, just this once. You’re so afraid I’ll be pissed if I see you get a     hard-
on for some other guy, you run from me when I want to talk about it. Do you think that in five years
I’ve never seen another man that gave me a little tingle? It happens to everyone, lover. It’s not
something to be ashamed of.”

My voice didn’t want to work. “I’m not you.”

“No, you’re not. I’ve never cheated on you, Levi.” He looked at me for the longest moments of my
life, his eyes gone black with some emotion I had no name for.

I knew. I knew.

"I heard what the bartender said the other night. You need to know that if it ever happens, and
you trick some guy, you don’t need to keep it from me. I expect you to first, be safe, and second,
to tell me so we can be more careful.”

Ice water tossed in my face would not have chilled me more than his words.  "What the fuck is
going on here, Stacy? I've never cheated on you. Never. And I'm not starting now."

“Levi, we've been together a long time, and as a couple, we've enjoyed unprotected sex for quite
a while now. Do I need to be concerned?"

A fine trembling seized my body. This conversation was out of control, the potential for disaster
increasing by the second. My stomach clenched in on itself until I fought back the dry heaves.
The world spiraled around me, going black at the edges.  I broke free of his hands.

"I love you. I never cheat on you. And yet you sit there and ask me if it's possible I could have
given you the clap - or something worse? Maybe I should be the one worrying! And you have to
do it here? You motherfucker! I have to go in there and work!" I choked, unable to breathe. "I
never…"

Stacy's arms came around me. I shoved him away, holding him at bay. The words came as I
managed a deep breath. Horrible words that I couldn’t stop from pouring out of me in my anger
and pain that he didn’t know me well enough to believe how much I loved him.

“Why don’t you go get a fucking blood test since you can’t trust me! Now you listen to me. You
decide whether or not you love me enough to have me hang around, because if I’ve gotten a little
old for you, you should tell me. I’ll step aside so you can go find yourself another sixteen year
old!”

He drew back like I’d struck him, which I had. I’d lashed out, hitting him with the most damaging
words I owned. He’d been falsely accused of having sex with a sixteen-year-old boy when he was
twenty. The boy had lied – Stacy hadn’t touched him – but the accusation had almost ruined Stacy’
s life. The pain lingered, and I, who loved him so much, knew the wound lingered in him, unhealed
at its deepest point.  

And I used it against him.

I reached for him and this time he batted my hands away.

“I’m sorry, Stace. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean that.”

“You said it, so you did mean it. Now get out of the car. I can’t be with you right now.”

My stomach roiled. “Stacy, please. We need to go back home and talk this out.”

He refused to look at me. The cold rage in his voice didn’t completely disguise the hurt.  

“No, we don’t. Going home won’t fix this, Levi. I need some time alone. Do us both a favor and
find someplace else to sleep...”
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Lovers Stacy James and Levi Wright keep their relationship hot
and spicy by enjoying the little things in life. Levi welcomes Stacy
home from a business trip by delighting his partner with a quick
trick in the men’s room of a local pool hall.  An offhand comment
by a stranger cools Stacy’s ardor, and sets in motion a chain
reaction that rocks the very foundation of Levi’s world. He’s
never cheated on Stacy, but Stacy has sudden doubts.  

On his own, Levi is tested in his discoveries – about Stacy, their
relationship, and about the kind of man he wants to be. One thing
he knows for certain. He’s not losing Stacy over a careless
whisper that isn’t true, but will the only man he’ll ever love
forgive his angry words?

Stacy made the worst mistake of his life telling his lover to find
another place to sleep. Levi might be younger, but he’s a man,
with a man’s pride. Stacy draws on all his experience to walk a
road full of detours and pitfalls to meet Levi halfway, and bring
him home. Because for Stacy, there’s no one but Levi.
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A Taste of Victory
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three Victory stories)
Surrendered Victory
Reed & Dalton
Passion's Victory
Micah & Jonas
Shining Victory
Stacy & Levi
No One But You
Levi & Stacy
(sequel to Shining          
  Victory, not
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Contemporary gay romance - the Victory collection

Surrendered Victory and Passion's Victory are stand-alone stories and are not connected to each other or
Shining Victory except by the word "victory" in their titles. No One But You is a sequel to Shining Victory.

Surrendered Victory, Passion's Victory and Shining Victory are available in the anthology, A Taste of Victory.
The sequel to
Shining Victory
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