If only Ian was gay they could just rely on each other for “everything” and their lives would be much easier. They’re best friends who are so close that they just don’t have time for relationships with other people.

Miro and Ian are more than just partners on the job. “We were as different as we could be, though people often commented that we had a really similar irritating way of carrying ourselves when together, an unmistakable strut.”

Now Miro just has to convince him that getting tangled up in heartstrings isn’t being tied down at all. Over time, Ian has grudgingly accepted that going anywhere without his partner simply doesn’t work. Ian’s always resisted all kinds of tied down, but having no home-and no one to come home to-is slowly eating him up inside. But the power and control that brings Ian success and fulfillment in the field isn’t working anywhere else. Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more.Īs a marshal and a soldier, Ian’s expected to lead. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they’ve gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire.

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