Henry Kavalauskas spends most of his time at YVR, Vancouver’s international airport. He works there, he hangs out there -- he knows the world is bigger than his fast-food job and his parents' living room, and he wishes he could find a guy to take him out into it. Someone to shepherd him through its teeming cities and sleep beside him in its fine hotels.<br><br>Someone like Zack Hoffman, to be quite specific, although Henry's first encounter with the short, sexy business traveler seems destined to be his last, seeing as how it takes place in an airport men's room.<br><br>But Zack's long-haul flight is canceled, and when their paths cross again quite by chance -- and Zack produces the key to a hotel room -- Henry seizes the moment. The room's gorgeous, Naked Zack is gorgeous, and being with him is a dream come true for Henry. Until reality barges in, chases Henry half-naked back into the airport, and raises some questions about Zack. Is he who he says he is? And, more importantly, will Henry ever see him again?

You Again?

“I mean, it does kind of look like you slept in it,” Henry teases.


“Says the guy with gravy on his shirt.”


“So,” Zack says after their second round arrives, “if you weren’t going to Lisbon…?”


Henry shrugs. “I just sometimes hang out after work.” He doesn’t like the way that sounds and he abbreviates the gulp at his beer. “I mean, not like in the break room or anything,” he says. “Talking to the people I just worked with all day? I’m not quite that lame. I have a life.” He chuckles. “It’s just here at the airport. God, maybe I am that lame.” Now he gulps at his beer.


“I don’t know,” Zack says. “I mean, there’s always something going on, right?”


“Yeah,” Henry says. “It’s the same place every day, of course, but the players are always changing. Some days it’s crazy, some days it’s more like meditation.”


Chapter 8