Bradley Kim is just trying to make the time without his boyfriend Lance go by faster when he takes on an additional article for his small town newspaper. But the moment he meets Shay Wilton, amateur beekeeper, it's definitely not the honey that catches his eye.<br><br>Bradley is lonely, and Shay is everything Lance is not -- passionate, fun, and kind -- and soon Bradley's interview becomes something more intimate as Shay gives him a hands-on experience with the honey extraction.<br><br>Turning down Shay's advances shouldn't be so difficult, but Bradley won't let temptation lead him to cheating. Too bad Lance doesn't have similar scruples, and after a fiery revelation, Bradley finds himself suddenly single, with nothing standing between him and a certain beekeeper who might just be sweeter than honey.

Sweeter Than Honey

He went to the internet to search cheese boards instead. He’d gotten very good at research—he’d done a little for his article on Shay’s honey, even—and had the perfect recipe for a French-inspired cheese board in no time. Fruit, bread, cold meats, and cheese, obviously, would go into it. Jam, maybe, for a sweet spread, and of course a bottle—or two—of good wine.


Surprising Lance with this when he returned was sure to help them recover. Bradley would invite him over, and they could share it together, in bed, on Saturday. Lance was returning on Wednesday, but Bradley wasn’t going to have time in the middle of the week—and he doubted Lance would, either. Maybe they’d get to a quickie when Bradley dropped Lance back at his place, but it’d be late and nothing special. Well, beyond it being the first sex they would have gotten in weeks.


Bradley thought he should be looking forward to that more.


Chapter 9