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

When I heard the shower running, I looked around at his messy bedroom. Funny how untidy his room was for a guy who cleaned houses for a living. I wished Seb didn’t have to do that anymore. I wished he’d go back to school, as he’d promised his mother before she passed away, but I couldn’t bring up the subject with him without causing him pain. I didn’t want to hurt his pride.


Sebastien rarely talked about his mother to me. I’d never met Mary-Anne because he’d always refused to introduce me to his parents while his mother had been alive. I’d only met Seb’s father months after her death and thatevening hadn’t gone well at all. His father didn’t like me.


Chapter 60