This chapter focuses on Cody’s first day of job training at Freshway and the tension that begins when Jason unexpectedly shows up. What starts as a routine orientation quickly becomes a psychological tug-of-war as Jason deliberately pushes Cody’s buttons through crude humor, physical closeness, and subtle teasing, while Cody struggles to keep his c
My mind won't shut up tonight. It’s on overdrive. This new roustabout has awakened everything I thought I buried. Now it’s all coming back. I look to the journal and let out another big sigh, knowing I should write in it. If anything, to rid my mind of the thoughts and dreams and fantasies I’ve been having. Of Jim. Our life.
Grady never responds to the letter, and Ben decides to move on. At least until an unexpected driver shows up on campus to bring him home for Thanksgiving break....
Ollie and Elliot bring Jared in for questioning. They then head back to the hotel to talk to more of the hotel's employees. They start to narrow down the timeline of Cody's disappearance. Ridge and Lucas enjoy their time on the cruise.
A 34-year-old straight sales rep moves to Hamburg, joins a top amateur handball team, and finds way more than he bargained for: sweaty games, intense locker-room vibes, and a captain who knows exactly how to shake up his world.
It is Prom and baseball playoff week. The drama will unfold, and there will be some added. Austin and Hudson’s relationship will continue to develop. I realize this may not be moving as fast as some would like. There will be a steady building to this relationship. At best I can say, it’s complicated.
He continued to hold my chin and stare at my body from head to toe. “Let’s see,” Adrian began, as if he was talking to himself, “I shouldn’t hurt your face because it’s too pretty, and I don’t want you to look like you’re about to shit yourself.”
He was tall, easily six-three, with broad shoulders that strained against a fitted white lab coat. Blond hair swept back from a chiseled face, sharp jawline, piercing blue eyes that locked onto Chase with immediate intensity.
Ben and Grady reluctantly return home after two blissful days away, but a danger awaits that tests the future of both the ranch and their relationship.
Reunited and it feels so good! But now that it's time for Harry to leave to start his new job and other things up in the air, is it goodbye or see you later?
Cody doesn’t do messy. He doesn’t do reckless. He definitely doesn’t do boys like Jason. Jason is bold, unapologetic, and dangerously good at getting what he wants. When they start working together, the tension is instant. What follows is supposed to be physical. Temporary. Simple .But as summer stretches on, the lines shift. Teasing turns quiet. H
Bottom For Life? -- The curse is over, Willem is straight again, and life has never been better. Or has it? As our heroes adjust to the end of the curse, we may just find that something yet remains.
The call came on a Tuesday. Troy and I were going over some invoices in the office of the shop. The kind of call you know is coming for years, expecting it for months, but it still hits you like a physical blow. My mother.
Inspired by the bold ‘Heated Rivalry” series but not similar, this story of love, passion and manipulation takes place in a fiercely competitive figure skating world between two rivals. Cami has a mountain to climb, Niko is at the top trying to hold on, his actions a weight bearing him down.
Reece Helm has been drifting for months, aimlessly traveling through Europe. Everything changes when he meets Dario Bellagio, a dangerously attractive man whose calm authority awakens desires Reece was always too afraid to explore. Dario promises a future where pleasure and surrender come with consequences Reece may not be ready for.
Sparks become a bonfire as Ben and Grady finally surrender to their passion. But will this be a purifying flame that brings them closer, or will it destroy everything they've built together?
He peeled away his towel and stood at the next stall to mine. Up close, he was even more alluring than I cared to admit, with a fine furry coating of blonde hair over his chest and stomach. He wasn’t all washboard abs like me, but his slightly round gut suited him, as did the big muscles of his arms and shoulders, making him look like a beefy dad.