The V in Valor
By J.M. Snyder
Vic Braunson opened one eye, his mind still muddled with sleep. The clock on his bedside table read a little after ten, and it took him a minute to figure out why the alarm hadn’t gone off. It was Saturday—no need to get up early because he didn’t have to go to work.
Then why bother to wake up at all?
Gripping his pillow in a bear hug, he burrowed down into it and sighed as he shut his eyes again. More sleep sounded heavenly. As his whole body relaxed, his mind stretched out beyond the confines of the bedroom to fill the rest of his apartment, searching to connect with his lover, Matt diLorenzo.
But the apartment was empty.
Vic drifted farther, his mind reaching past the solid confines of the home. Into the hallway, down the stairs, outside where Mat
