When video game designer Brett Bett attends a New Year's Eve party, he reunites with friends and foes. Happily single with no intention of discovering a "possible" boyfriend, Brett meets the private party's handsome bartender, Nevin McBane. The attraction between them is immediate.<br><br>Through an assortment of party games, the two become quite acquainted with each other. Numerous drinks are shared, histories of their pasts are learned, and dancing becomes necessary.<br><br>Frankly, Brett thinks he’s met a great guy, a charmer. Someone he can maybe fall for. As midnight approaches and the clock counts down to the New Year, Brett must make a decision. Does he want to go home with Nevin after the party, or stay single and unencumbered?

Men at Play

??And a damn good one. Someone you can??t compete with.?? He lifts the drink and vanishes into the crowd.


I see him across the room, Corbin Trundle, the twenty-nine-year-old ex-boyfriend/boxer that was taken away from me. He looks good as a bottled-blond in a too-tight, unbuttoned, burgundy silk dress shirt. Lucky Brand jeans look glued to his muscular legs. And the black eye from his job puts him into the sexy and rough category of the many guests at the party. As always, Trundle keeps his hair buzzed, and he sports diamond studs in his earlobes that reflect in the room??s dim light. He talks to a younger man while they both drink beer from longneck bottles.


Chapter 6