Cairo Nights: Chapter Twelve

Still healing from the beating that nearly killed him, Cairo makes a defiant call. The man who hurt him doesn’t get to schedule his week. So he and Pete open their New Orleans courtyard to two guarded strangers, Marc and Alex, for a dinner that slides from wine and jasmine into a meticulously negotiated night for four. While the real threat, Soren, still moves loose in the city. It’s a chapter about choosing joy underneath a debt that hasn’t been closed, where the last line of defense isn’t a locked gate but the four men holding each other up. The story to date in EPUB format can be downloaded HERE if you prefer to read longer material on your Kindle or other device. Apparently the article is too long for the auto-narrator to read. Here’s a version done by Fish AI. Kind of bland but it gets the job done if you prefer to listen over read. Get full access to Til Thick & Thorough at tilbrenko.substack.com/subscribe