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?

“Thanks,” Henry says. “See you on Thursday.”


He shoulders his bag and walks away. He always takes the train home, but this night—the one day he comes to work without an extra shirt in his bag—he decides to spring for a cab. It’s thirty bucks he’d just as soon spend on something else, but it’s not like he’s planning on making this his new routine. He takes the escalator down to Arrivals, walks out to the taxi stand, and takes his place in the longish queue. Shortly he slides into the backseat of a new-car-smelling Prius and gives the driver his folks’ address. The driver does a double-take in the rear-view mirror. He turns in his seat, the better to face Henry, and the question is already half-formed on his lips, but Henry shakes his head.


Chapter 12