What do you do when your boyfriend begins acting strangely, and at the same time, you meet someone his total opposite? Do you start having second thoughts? Jesse Jamison must confront those very questions. After two years of living with his lover Dennis "Denny" Christopoulos, a charming flight attendant, the man starts taking on extra flights, making excuses for not coming home, and receiving private phone calls. During this time, Jesse also meets Nick Warden, a new neighbor. He immediately sees the contrasts between the two men and finds Nick attractive on so many levels. Meanwhile, Denny has growing reservations about his relationship with Jesse, especially once a new man comes into his own life. Yet Denny isn't ready to give up the good thing he has going with Jesse since he isn't sure about the new man's intentions, or his own feelings. Nick also struggles with his growing love for Jesse. While he would like nothing more than to claim Jesse for himself, his integrity prevents him from playing the home-wrecker. His hesitation to step in, however, nearly causes his undoing and a missed opportunity at love. Each man has his own second thoughts. But who will act on them, and what will be the consequences?

Second Thoughts

Nick rinsed off the foam from the body wash and squeezed some shampoo into his palm. Rubbing it into his scalp, he turned his thoughts to Denny’s references to Jesse.


Does the jerk care about Jesse at all? He just seems so…so…uncommitted. Like this is all just some temporary thing.


Nick began to rinse the shampoo out of his hair.


Oh, God, Jesse. If I had a guy like that to come home to, a guy who gave me a ring, I’d have him on a plane to Iowa, Massachusetts, or Canada as fast as I could.


As Nick stood under the spray, letting the shampoo get washed away by the streams of warm water, he pictured Jesse as he had the previous night: Jesse at the gym working out; Jesse in the shower; Jesse smiling at him across the room; laughing…talking. Almost before he realized what he was doing, he arched his back and shot volleys of thick, white, ropey cum all over the wall of his shower stall.


Chapter 23