Easy-going Sebastien divides his time between working as a cleaning technician, caring for his widowed father, and running off to the park for soccer practice. Coasting through his existence, he's convinced he doesn't have much going for him.<br><br>That isn’t what his best friend Jack thinks. Quick-witted and passionate, Jack is fascinated by art and history, but the greatest book or painting could never compare to how he feels when he's alone with Sebastien.<br><br>In the last five years, Seb and Jack have shared everything, sometimes even a bed. Yet though their chemistry is smoking hot, Sebastien keeps Jack at a safe distance. But when the two move in together to lower their living expenses, that distance gets smaller and smaller, until Sebastien and Jack are standing so close, they can't see what's right in front of their eyes ... the love of their life.

Auguries of Summer

I couldn’t keep myself together. “What is it?” I asked again, this time in a panicked tone


He was going to tell me he’d made a mistake. That he’d changed his mind about this.


Sebastien turned his face and looked straight at me. “What are you doing wasting your time with a guy like me?”


For a second, I wasn’t quite sure I’d understood his question, but when I finally did, I frowned. “What?”


“Come on, Jack. Really. What is a guy like you doing with a man like me? I don’t even have my high school diploma, I don’t read, I don’t know anything about anything, and I clean houses for a living. I’m broke. Not a penny to my name. And the only decent things about me are the things youtaught me. I don’t have anything to offer you. No bright future ahead. No—”


Chapter 59