Twenty-six and gay, Shane Polk isn’t having a good year. After blowing out his ankle during an Everglade Eagles football game, he does eight months of rehab in Pittsburgh. Now that rehabilitation is over, Shane returns home to Florida and comes to terms with the fact that he has to get back in the game, which isn’t easy for him.<br><br>Summertime along the Gulf Coast for Shane has been better. Not only does he have the hassles of starting a new job with the Eagles, he grows jealous of his best friend, Frankie, who is falling in love with Mr. Right in the Caribbean.<br><br>Unfortunately, Shane can’t seem to get a grip on his own love life. Sexy football players come and go, none of whom are worth a long-term relationship. Then he meets Tommy Rawe, a young man with a charming smile. Is Tommy someone special who just might be able to change Shane’s topsy-turvy world for the better?

Back in the Game

My exposure happened when he stood from his bed and dropped the used cotton towel inside his Martha Stewart hamper to wash during his next laundry session. Perhaps he had noticed me somewhat shifting my weight from one foot to the next inside the collection of palms. I was quite sure he saw me at the corner of his left eye—a sliver of my arm or one of my shoulders—and quickly turned his head in my direction, spotting another part of my torso or limbs. In doing so, he immediately dropped the towel on the floor, missing the hamper by just a few feet, and rushed to the window in his beautiful buff.


Once at the window, he opened the screen, popped his torso out, looked from his left to right, searched me out, and yelled, “Hey, I know who you are! I know what you’re doing!”


Chapter 43