On a scale of one to ten, DJ Joe Salinas considers himself a four, five on a good day. Actor/part-time stripper Fess Kedley is definitely a nine, however, and Joe's pretty sure that slides into a ten as soon as the clothes come off. So when the outgoing Fess recognizes a shy Joe from his midnight radio show at a bachelorette party and proceeds to ask him out, Joe turns Fess down, convinced the man's either crazy or stupid.<br><br>The only problem is, Fess takes rejection as reason to keep on trying.<br><br>The two become unexpected friends, so when the thought of trying a date comes up again, Joe decides to take a chance. Though he doesn't understand what someone like Fess can see in someone like him, it's hard to say no when everything else feels so right.

What the Heart Thinks

He didn’t know when or what that was going to be yet, but there would be one, of that he was sure. He understood more about what made Joe tick now. Seeing him again would be a hell of a lot easier than getting this date had been.


Fess lounged by the door as he waited for Joe, doing his best to look like his mind was elsewhere. Now that they were out of the booth, too, he had to do what he could to hide his erection. What would Joe think if he knew Fess had spent most of the meal hard as a rock? Probably run in the opposite direction. The one thing Fess had learned more than anything else in the past hour was that for all his confidence on the air, Joe had absolutely none in a personal arena.


Chapter 8