Plans. Everyone has them. Rush Dalton and Tad Jackson plan to live happily ever after. January Stephens plans to ease the hurt of a declined marriage proposal with alcohol. Josh Cooper's plan is to conceal his feelings for Mopp. And Mopp? He simply plans to hold tight to Josh's friendship.<br><br>Meanwhile, Eric Jameson arrives from DC with plans of his own. He intends to elicit information from Jan in an effort to find Babe, the woman who’s taken refuge with her son at the big house called the ranch. Babe plans to stay away from anyone who might try to take her little boy away from her and return him to the mysterious Dr. Pandora Gautier.<br><br>Deuce Pettigrew’s only plan is to keep the man he treasures safe and in one piece.  But the thing about plans is -- sometimes they just don’t work out the way you expect them to

Mann of My Dreams Book 6: The Best-Laid Plans

The more he saw of him, the more Tad liked him, even to the point of considering asking him out for a beer. The thing was, Rush was working for Daddy and JT, and if he started something and their... friendship... went nowhere, it would make things difficult all around.


Besides, Rush still hadn’t come out, not to him at any rate, and so, reluctantly, for the next six months, Tad left him alone. 


TAD STROLLED into the kitchen to get an apple. Dinner was still a couple of hours away, and—he grinned to himself—he was a growing boy.


The kitchen wasn’t unoccupied, however. Rush was standing by the sink, 


He was glad he hadn’t bothered to tuck his shirt in; it hid the erection he usually got when he was in Rush’s vicinity. 


Chapter 19