Austin Inverness loves dogs and his wife, Erika. Erika was the only girlfriend Austin ever had who didn’t judge him for being bisexual, and dogs never judge, period. Unfortunately, Erika isn’t much of a dog person. Airman Neil Stafford has been deployed to Turkey for a six-month tour and he enrolls his schipper-poo, Bunny, in the Fosters for Fighters program that arranges fostering for soldiers' pets. There he meets Austin, who will foster Bunny while Neil is overseas. The two men keep in touch via Skype and Austin is delighted by how well they get along. Erika, on the other hand, is delighted by how little she has to do to take care of Bunny. That is, until Bunny needs an emergency trip to the vet. By the time Neil returns home, Austin has noticed key differences between his wife and the new friend he can’t stop thinking about. As for Neil, he knows for sure he wants Austin in his life, but not at the cost of his friend's marriage. When Austin realizes Erika questions his bisexuality, the cracks in their relationship quickly spread and Austin questions everything, including if he can make the right choice. Will Austin and Neil be able to overcome the bumps on the road to happiness?

Fostered Affections

“No time like the present,” he said out loud. “Come on, Bunny. You’re going to sit outside for a few minutes. Bark if you need anything.”


With Bunny safely in the backyard where she couldn’t interrupt anything, Austin got comfy on the bed, took off his pants, and set up his laptop. He went to his usual go-to free gay porn site and searched for the most popular videos. To his amusement, one of the top five was titled Boot Camp Butt Cadets. He clicked it for a laugh, since it sounded corny as hell but he had been thinking about someone in the military. That laughing was quickly silenced when he saw the preview image.


Whoever the top was, the resemblance between him and Neil was uncanny. It could have been the military haircut, could have been the quality of the image being similar enough to the resolution of a Skype chat video, could have been because Neil was someone Austin had thought of recently, but it was something he couldn’t unsee.


Chapter 13