table hard where his fists had just been to keep my hands off him. But I could feel the juices flowing already.

"Well, when it’s convenient, maybe we can hook up and . . ."

"Now," Hank hissed through his teeth in a voice strangled with urgency. "When I saw you in the showers this evening after the squad workout and before we hit the streets, I nearly creamed myself. I wanted you to see my jewelry. I want you take me someplace right now, tie me up, and fuck me hard."

"Well, if it’s a quiet night, I know of some places we can park. The car’s not the best place, but . . ."

I felt an insistent buzzing in one of my pockets that had nothing to do with the effect Hank was having on my cock.

"Shit," I exclaimed as I reached for my mobile phone. "It’s dispatch."

I listened to the assignment call for a several seconds. Hank was already standing and flipping a couple of bills on the table.

"Trouble?"

"Yeah, I’m afraid so. But not a rush, rush. They caught up with that guy who’s been kidnapping and raping those college guys over on the east side. We’re to go pat down his pad. Guess our business will have to hold fire for a bit."

"Yeah, I guess you’re right," Hank said. I kinda liked the tone of regret in his voice on that one.

Chas Sheldon, a smart-assed cop in our squad who razzed me pretty bad about my preferences was standing at the door of the small, rundown bungalow hidden in the undergrowth of a quiet east side street when we rolled into the driveway. He was giving me a snide stare as Hank and I approached.

"You’ll just love this one, Lance," he said to me as we walked up to him. "It’s right up your alley." He sniggered at his double entendre. Real genius; I bet he’d been working on that for a half an hour.

"Yeah, well, they couldn’t have gotten this guy any too soon in my opinion," I answered brusquely. "Any sign of any of the missing men?"

"Just the one we caught him in the act with," Sheldon smirked. "He was pretty far gone, but they’ve sent him off to the hospital already, and the perp just left for the department in a squad car. We caught him doin' it and followed the book, so this one should be air tight. The forensics crew has started on the basement, but I think they’re about ready to call it a day. We’ve got a crew starting to dig in the backyard too, but it will be too dark to continue with that for a while. Guess you’ll want to see the scene yourself though, to, ya know, get some pointers maybe."

I could have shoved my fist down Sheldon’s throat, but that would just make for good conversation and more razzing in the squad room. Hank gave a disgusted sound deep down in his throat and pushed on by Sheldon and into the house. I was senior and hadn’t gotten the full assignment yet, so I stuck with Sheldon for the moment.

"So, what’s the call here?" I asked. Sheldon saw that I wasn’t going to rise to the bait, so he got through it quickly with just one more jab.

"I was just to stick around until another set of blues—which would be the two of you, I suppose—showed