Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die?<br><br>These are questions newly minted Doctor Marco Sartori d’Argenzio must face when he and his partner Danilo Rosati celebrate Marco’s completed residency and Danilo’s most recent PhD with a vacation at Marco’s father’s home in the Duchy of Aragoni. There Marco learns about his family’s legacy: his father is more than two thousand years old, and he can expect to live just as long.<br><br>Marco inherits his uncle’s title amidst adventure and danger, but it breaks his heart to realize that he’ll live only to see the man he’s loved for a decade grow old and die. However, there is hope: Danilo is studying the unique DNA of Marco’s family in hops of discovering the secret -- because Danilo has no intention of leaving Marco alone for what could be forever.

The Path to Forever

“Yeah,” Noah said. “One of them is a Sergeant with the Sheriff’s Office, and the other is a CPA. Really nice guys. Friends of ours in fact. We have a sort of patio with a privacy fence where we sometimes lay out in the sun naked, and they join us once in a while.”


“Which explains those overall suntans,” I said.


“Yeah,” Tom said, “but they aren’t easy to maintain, given our travel schedules.”


I looked around in the direction of the massage rooms. “If anyone wants a massage,” I said, “both of the male masseurs are now available.”


“Tom,” William said, “why don’t you and Noah take advantage of the service? You’re the ones that are here to perform in a couple of days.”


“We’ll meet you in the showers,” I said.


Dani and I spent an hour with the Lanes, catching up on each other’s lives, then the clock on the wall told me that Tom and Noah should be in the showers. “I think our friends will be in the showers by now,” I said. “Shall we join them?”


Chapter 99