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’d received many texts while his phone was off, and an unreal number of Twitter notifications. He read through them fast. Tons of congratulatory tweets by people he knew, strangers too, a myriad of new followers, many private messages from Russell…


Reggie read back through the notifications list. It had to be someone else, a random stranger named Russell Lee who wasn’t connected to his Russell. His heart started beating like a fool in the middle of his chest and his face—his whole body—became fiery. As predicted.


Russell Lee’s first public tweet had been written about eight hours earlier. Reggie Weston was amazing, like a diamond in the sky. I wasn’t.


Reggie checked the tweeter’s profile—it was the Russell Lee, unequivocally. Shortly after he’d sent out the tweet, Reggie’s notifications indicated that Russell had followed him. His heart beat so furiously, his ears were ringing. A diamond in the sky…nobody had never called him anything so beautiful.


Chapter 42