James is surprised when co-worker Vic disappears, but even more so when Vic shows up months later as James’s manager. As a single gay man with few responsibilities, James takes his fun wherever and whenever he can. He’d even played around with Vic a few times. But now something’s changed, something James can't quite put his finger on. In fact, almost everything about Vic is subtly different -- and maybe not so subtly, when it comes to them resuming their affair. James never used to think Vic was hot, but now Vic’s like a new man and he wants James. James should be flattered, shouldn’t he?<br><br>Unfortunately, things don’t develop quite the way James hopes. He’s just out for a good time, but Vic wants something more than mutually satisfactory sexual games. He’s obsessed with finding out James’s idea of a perfect man. And what’s more, Vic seems determined to do whatever’s necessary to become that person -- whether James is a willing participant or not.

Perfection

Chris’s angelic blue eyes glinted out from the red paint Gaz and I had dabbed all over his face and any exposed skin. Two small horns clung to a band he’d clipped on his blond curls. He was the only guy I knew who could wear nothing but a black leather tunic and loincloth—with a devil’s forked tail attached—and still look like the Archangel Gabriel just minding the clothes for a friend.


Bren’s costume made him look like a hybrid swamp monster, as if a squid and a Komodo dragon had met and mated in the dark when they were too drunk to care. It had taken a week of Gaz’s and my spare time sewing on extra tentacles. Now most of them kept getting caught around our ankles, and the slimy green hair gel we’d combed all over his head didn’t bear closer inspection. Even Chris was wary of it.


Chapter 2