Charles is a service technician with the cable company who doesn't usually do new installs. His day is limited to trouble calls and reconnects.<br><br>But an irate customer has called into the office -- he missed the installer and now demands the cable company send someone out to hook up his service. Charles is already in the neighborhood when he gets the call.<br><br>New installs aren't usually in Charles's job description. But when he meets the sexy Billy Jackson, he's more than willing to hook the guy up.

On the Job

Don’t go there, Charles. You do not want to picture him in the bathtub. Naked, soapy, slippery and wet…


I shake my head to clear the image and find the cable I pushed up into the room, a black wire poking from a small hole in one corner. Billy watches as I run the cable behind a bookcase, behind the sofa and those damn dogs, around an end table, and to the back of the TV. I glance at the photographs on top of the TV—a tall, black man with a shaved head and kinked beard smiles up at me. Who is he? 


Billy must see my expression because he says, “That’s my roommate. Ty.” 


I nod and bend down behind the TV, and I know his gaze is steady on my ass but what the hell am I supposed to do? 


As I screw the cable into the back of the set, he says dreamily, “Those are his stinky dogs. He’s not my boy or anything, though. I ain’t got someone like that yet.” 


He emphasizes the word yet.I notice that.


Chapter 5