Jay Anderson lives next door to the ruggedly handsome man of his dreams, detective Drake Hanover. He wishes their friendship could turn into more, but there's a problem -- Drake's ex-boyfriend, who has a habit of calling Drake after his breakups. After Drake once again caters to the whims of his ex, Jay about gives up hope Drake will ever see him as anything but the sweet, young twink next door.<br><br>Drake notices the sexy Jay -- who wouldn't? -- but the decade age difference between them and his needy ex keep him from thinking he could ever be more than Jay’s friend.<br><br>When his ex’s behavior gets to be too much even for Drake and the selfish man manages to hurt Jay, Drake realizes his feelings for Jay go far beyond friendship. Now if he could just convince Jay before Jay becomes his ex-neighbor.

Finally His

Drake nodded and drank some wine. “Yeah, okay. You could try the police academy.”


Jay laughed. “Seriously? Do I look like cop material to you?”


Well, he couldn’t deny in his years on the force he’d not seen anyone who looked remotely like Jay. Although for a second, his mind imagined Jay in a sexy policeman’s stripper costume threatening to arrest him.


“Point taken.” Drake cleared his throat. “Still there must be better paying jobs than the department store.”


“Oh, I’m sure. But there’s a chance I can make assistant manager someday. That would be cool.”


“Yeah, that would be. With looks like yours I’m surprised you didn’t go into modeling or acting.”


“I thought about it at one time,” Jay admitted. “My first boyfriend directed commercials. And then he also knew a guy who produced porn.”


Drake nearly choked on a sip of wine. He blinked a few times. “You didn’t seriously consider porn, did you?”


Chapter 5