Unregulated Passion: A Tinsel Town Valentine
Marc Fist
Felix Stone is awake at 3:00 AM.
This is not unusual.
Felix has spent fourteen years sleeping lightly, thinking in checklists, waking to phantom smoke and the memory of fire.
What’s unusual is what he’s doing now.
He’s sitting in an armchair in Hugh Everhart’s apartment, wrapped in a blanket, watching Hugh sleep like it’s a critical safety inspection.
Hugh is sprawled across the couch, warm and uncontained, taking up space like he was born with the unshakable belief that he’s allowed to exist.
Felix has never had that.
Felix has never wanted that.
Until now.
Because Hugh is injured. Vulnerable. Still stubborn enough to argue with Felix even with a wrapped ankle and bruised pride. And Felix, who has never once crossed a line he couldn’t justify in writing…
…has already crossed too many.
He carried Hugh home.
He bandaged him.
He stayed.
And the longer the night stretches, the harder it becomes to pretend this is about professionalism.
Because it isn’t.
It’s about the way Hugh looks at Felix like he’s more than the worst thing that ever happened.
It’s about the way Felix’s hands remember Hugh’s mouth.
It’s about the terrifying realization that caring feels like stepping off a ledge.
Felix has spent his whole life believing love is unsafe.
Hugh is about to prove him wrong.
And once Felix lets himself want…
There’s no regulation in the world strong enough to stop him.
UNREGULATED PASSION is a high-heat MM small-town romance full of forced proximity, caretaking tenderness, sleepless longing, competence kink, and the moment a control freak realizes he’s already ruined.
