Fox Point · Book Two
Bad Debt
Rory & Theo · Fisher / Fox
Stands on its own
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Eighty-seven days at the window table. He counted every one.
Rory Colby has worked the bar at Boom since he was sixteen. Hatch killed the man who owned him, made him eggs, and he never left. Five years on he runs the rail, counts the drawer, cuts the limes, and takes what keeps the omega under, so nobody's nose knows. School stopped at twelve. He doesn't talk about it. He goes to Dmitri's class on the cleared floor instead, where the training is dirty on purpose, and his body still locks about half the time.
Theo counts things: the twenty-two minutes it takes him to leave his apartment, the days, the coffees. A fox, a professor with a million-dollar problem he has stood in front of for years, he comes to a bar off Allens because his brother says nobody there will look at him twice. He takes the table by the window, facing the bar, and he looks.
Eighty-seven days. Thirty-four coffees that never went on the bill. Neither of them says the word.
Then a man in a work jacket sits down at the rail on a Friday in February and orders a whiskey, and Rory's body knows him before Rory does. Nine years ago he took a twelve-year-old out of a house in Lincoln. He doesn't know Rory. Rory knows him. And a man like that comes back.
If you've read Cold Ledger, you know Boom, and Hatch, and the back hall. If you haven't, there's no homework: Bad Debt stands on its own, beginning to end.
Fox Point, Book Two. An Ocean State Shifters novel.
What’s in it
Explicit sex, on the page.
Noir omegaverse, one couple per book.
Fated mates: a fox alpha and a fisher omega. Slow burn across a bar rail, then not slow at all. Hurt/comfort, a survivor taking his life back, found family behind a bar.
No cliffhanger. Complete romance with an HEA.
Content notes
Violence on the page, including a killing. A childhood abduction and years of being owned, referenced and never depicted. A gunshot wound. A body disposed of. A pregnancy in the background, with no birth in this book.
Specifics, with spoilers
The sex is explicit and on the page, once, late in the book, with knotting.
When Rory was twelve a man came into his house in Lincoln, killed his parents and took him. A year later the man sold him. He was owned until he was sixteen, when Hatch killed the man who owned him. Rory tells it once, in his own kitchen, in a few sentences. None of it is depicted.
The man who took him walks into the bar three times. The third time he shoots Hatch, and Rory kills him with a knife, on the page. The body goes to a pet crematorium that night. Nobody calls the police, and nobody is going to.
There is a bar fight between two wolves, over in two minutes, and a drunk bear who leans on the wrong end of the bar and goes back to his stool without a hand laid on him. Hatch takes a bullet in the shoulder and recovers.
Daniel is pregnant through the whole book. There is no birth in it.
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