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

“Why did you do that?” Drake asked. “He seemed nice.”


“Us?” Drake set down his coffee mug. “Jay, there is no us.”


His breath froze in his lungs. “What? But, y-you, y-yesterday, we—” God, he was stuttering. He hadn’t stuttered since high school after speech therapy. His face flamed hot.


“I’m sorry, Jay. Yesterday was a mistake.”


Drake shook his head. “It was completely my fault. I owe you an apology. I was on the rebound. Ross and I are over for good. I had no right to barge on over there and attack you like that when you had a date coming over.”


Jay didn’t know what to say. He just stood there staring at Drake, the hope he’d allowed to feel that maybe Drake was as attracted to him as he was to Drake shriveled and died.


Chapter 16