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 sighed when he couldn’t hear any movement on the other side of the door and he turned and went back to his own apartment. It wasn’t like Jay to just disappear on him. He didn’t like it one damn bit.


Plopping down on his sofa, he pulled his cell phone from his pocket and located Jay’s number. When he went to voice mail again, Drake hung up. There was little point to leaving yet another message Jay wouldn’t return.


He began to wonder if Jay was avoiding him on purpose. He couldn’t imagine why, but what else could it be? He didn’t want to think something bad had happened to Jay. The young man wasn’t really a high risk victim other than being gay. And there was that. But he hadn’t heard of any recent gay bashing incidents in the area.


Drake’s next plan to look for Jay would be the store where he worked, he guessed.


And then he heard footsteps in the hall. It could be another neighbor though so he waited. Then he heard a knock on Jay’s door.


Chapter 13