David Miles and Richter Layover are young lovers from West Hollywood who move to Snowden to open a liberal and fun bakery called Cupcakes. What follows is a string of extraordinary men who enter their lives and change their matrimony and the bakery forever. Realtor Anthony Jarr, handsome and alluring, who lives above Cupcakes and considers himself an exceptional lover. When he meets Ryan Glayson, a professional cellist with a relentless urge for sweets, Jarr falls in love for the first time, turning his life into a topsy-turvy spin of surprising romance and selflessness. The magnetic and strange Stefan Pavlov is one of Cupcakes' regulars. Although he comes across as being sweet and charming, he has secrets that are quite damaging, which are exposed during a heated summer along the lake. Erich Misslow, a part-time employee at Cupcakes, becomes enamored with Pavlov, who is almost three times his age. Erich has always enjoyed the company of older men, but does Pavlov have too much peculiar baggage to share? Cupcakes also draws in Ken Eclipse, a charming underwear model with a taste for sweet men and sultry sex. Eclipse searches for Mr. Right like a slice of cinnamon cake for his appetite and personal needs. Can he find the man of his dreams at Cupcakes, or will he forever be single, enjoying the bakery's treats alone? These employees, friends, and lovers combine together with their individual recipes of bliss and loss, and the little bakery called Cupcakes comes to life as the sugary flavor of a gay neighborhood along the lake bursts into life.

Cupcakes

My disgust for Richter was growing by the day, and my heart ached with an unbelievable amount of pain, knowing that he was carrying out an extracurricular affair beyond our relationship. Of course I wanted to confront him regarding the issue and facts that I had obtained on my own, but I couldn’t find the courage to do so. Besides, I had to work at Cupcakes, pulling his weight, baking some, working its books, and cleaning up the debris that he had left behind.


My goal was simple, of course. I wanted to find out exactly what Richter and Nolan were practicing outside of Cupcakes. I needed to learn about the infidelity with a stranger that Richter had devised on his free will. And I wasn’t going to be happy until I learned such vital information and details in his life, and mylife.  54: Follow My Nose


Chapter 38