Offense and Satisfaction

Offense and Satisfaction

Vanessa Mulberry

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England, 1772. Hugh Galpin has loved Owen Mowbray too long to want to hurt him. Now he finds himself on his way to a duel that might see one or both of them dead, he is torn between the word of a family he barely knows and a man he has trusted all his life. But after years spent living alone, he is not ready to give up his newly found cousins no matter what they have done.

Offense and Satisfaction is a 3,800-word Historical Gay (MM) Romance with a HFN ending.

England, 1772

Kill him.

The words rang in Hugh Galpin’s ears as he trudged out into the dark woods, repeating over and over alongside the steady beat of his heart. His second, Loftus Burk, scurried along by his side.

Kill the bastard, Burk said, pushing back his greasy blond hair, Kill the swine. Kill him dead so he might come back like Christ did and you can kill him again.

Enough! Hugh stopped, but Burk walked on ahead, stumbling over fallen branches, dragging his feet through piles of leaves. He seemed too eager to reach his destination to care about how he got there or the state of the