Tory Cuthbert is the owner of Misty View Motel, and he’s mostly satisfied with his life. He rarely thinks about the time, fourteen years ago, when a boy he loved -- Wheeler Ridley -- left him behind. Maury Landrum, one of Tory’s employees, is a tempting morsel, but Tory can't seem to bring himself to take the next step, even though he knows Maury would be more than willing.<br><br>Then Wheeler turns up at the motel and doesn't even recognize Tory when he hits on him. After Wheeler’s repeated attempts to get into Tory’s pants, Tory reveals that they knew each other and what happened when they were kids. Wheeler remembers things differently, however, and Tory realizes he’s actually been wrong -- all this time.<br><br>When Maury abruptly resigns, Tory finally wakes up to what’s been right under his nose. And he has to get Maury back, no matter what.

Love, Love Me Dude

Maury got up and hugged his sister and shook Leonard’s hand. The triplets scrambled into the booth, yelling for hugs and just being precocious five-year-olds.


I held Josie in my lap, while Janey and Jeremiah squeezed the life out of Maury when he sat again and they crawled onto him. “So you guys just walking around the town today?” Sheila asked, smiling indulgently at her little monsters.


“Yeah. Things are slow at the motel, as you know, and I wanted us to spend some time together.” I glanced at Maury, who’d turned bright red. But he was smiling. I wondered what else would make him blush. Would he be flushed all over, I wondered?


“Well, I’m glad,” Sheila said. “Maury’s been mooning over you long enough.”


His sister stuck out her tongue and hooked her arm around Leonard’s. “Hey, when it’s right, it’s right.” She gave her new beau a loving look, which he returned.


Chapter 13