Curt, a college professor, lives with his lover of several years, a pediatrician of Chinese descent named Lee. Eager to write, he receives a grant to take the summer off and work on a novel. Then Lee's mother calls -- she wants to visit. Curt is eager to meet her but Lee isn't so sure ... she's of a different generation, a different culture even, and doesn’t speak much English. Still, Curt insists.<br><br>But when Mrs. Gui arrives, Curt finds himself struggling with writer’s block. He feels like an outsider in his own home when Lee and his mother converse in Cantonese, leaving him out of the conversation, and even his sex life suffers with her in the bedroom next to theirs. Can Curt and Mrs. Gui move past their cultural differences to see that they both love Lee and have his best interests at heart?

Just What the Doctor Ordered

But if Lee noticed my reluctance to talk about my writing, or lack thereof, he didn’t mention it. Through the phone I could hear his name, someone paging him to the MRE lab and my lover sighed heavily. 


With a laugh, I teased, “I can be wicked if that’s the way you like it.”


“Is that a promise?” Sobering, he said, “Listen, hon, about my mom—”


“Hey, whatever you decide to do, Lee, is fine by me. I’m behind you a hundred percent.” I lowered my voice and breathed into the phone. “You know I like that position best.”


“You know you’re turning me on.”.


“And I have four more hours here with no relief in sight. But this is about my mom.”


The thought of his mother doused my arousal fast and I laughed. “What about her?” In the background, another page called out for him. “Do you have to go?”


Chapter 11