During a golf tournament in Virginia, American golfer Reggie Weston meets Russell Lee, the British former world champion in the sport. The two men hit it off when Russell takes Reggie under his wing, teaching him the tricks of the game. As their friendship deepens, Reggie finds himself falling in love with the Englishman, though he knows Russell doesn’t feel the same. He’s painfully aware of the fact that Russell isn’t gay. But there’s more to Russell than meets the eye. He’s a troubled soul, plagued by monsters in his head telling him who he should be. He’s spent most of his life hiding his sexuality from the world so he won’t disappoint his homophobic mother. Is seven days enough time for Russell to break through the years of hurt and accept the new direction fate has in store for him and Reggie?

Seven Days

He looked around. Lost as he’d been in negative thoughts, he hadn’t heard a single word of what the referee said.


The referee now stared at him irritably.


Reggie turned to the Englishman, finally looking into his eyes. As he’d approached, they had seemed to be smiling, but up close he realized they looked dead.


Having Russell only a few inches away, with that blue gaze Reggie loved so much, was the most difficult part of the match, harder than getting a hole in one. He so much wanted to beg Russell to not push him away.


Instead he said through trembling lips, “Tails.”


They flipped a coin and Reggie won; it would be his honor to swing first. They got into the cart to head out to the eighteenth. They would keep playing that hole until one of them ended it with less strokes than the other, thereby winning the tournament.


At the start tee, Reggie looked at the clubs in his bag as if he didn’t recognize them.


Chapter 31