By the time Raiden finished cleaning the tables his mind was in turmoil. One touch had undone the invisible wall he had erected between his past, where he was Raiden, in love and loved, and the present, where he was known as Blaze and was a fixer, of sorts, for the Thorne family. He had been working for this family since he was nineteen, since the day he had found himself within a prison cell with Zaz, one of their newest appraisers. He had been sentenced and sent to prison, but he only spent a few months there until the Thorne family intervened, and he found himself indebted to this family for more than just his freedom.
He'd met Maya a few years later. She was meant to be business, a way for the Thorne family to ensure her father wasn't getting any notions about talking. He'd had his mo
