Chapter 2
Officially, they’d met at work. But when Starr visited his 911 training class as a guest speaker, Mark recognized the hot cop from Pride at once. He’d been directing traffic during the parade, not necessarily participating on any level. Mark wasn’t a hundred percent sure he was even gay, although remembering the looks they’d traded as he pretended to pay attention to the parade with his buddies still made him blush.
During class he hadn’t made a point to remember Mark, but when they ran into each other in a trendy neighborhood restaurant that weekend, it was indeed Starr who initiated the Hi howareya’s.
“Nine-one-one, right?”
“Oh, hey. Hi. Yeah.” Mark blushed a tad here, too. He hadn’t seen Starr come in, hadn’t noticed him at a neighboring table, and he wondered how long he’
