Allan has always tried to do the sensible thing. So when his sister Elsie became pregnant eight years ago and was ditched by her boyfriend, he stepped up to the plate. Since then, he's been his sister's support system and father figure to his niece.<br><br>Allan's world is turned upside down when Elsie becomes engaged and he meets her fiancé's older brother, Davinder -- a beautiful, brooding artist with a thousand secrets in his eyes. But Davinder is a married man and father of two young boys.<br><br>From the moment they meet, Allan and Davinder walk along the edge of their secret lives, never allowed to push open the gates. Though their love is a head-on collision, a meeting of the minds, a fusing of two lost souls, both men know that it is also -- and above all -- impossible.

In His Secret Life

“No, it’s great,” he said, not convincingly, throwing stuff off the couch. Shirts. Papers. “My neighbors—”


“No one saw me.” I grabbed a beer bottle off the coffee table. One of many. I shook the bottle. “Any more of these?”


I’d gone from a married man to a paranoid closet case. Was I condemned to live in the shadows?


“Yeah, sure.” Vassilios disappeared into the kitchen and I moved more stuff off the couch—a ruler, some kind of tape, and an empty pack of cigarettes. When I’d cleared a space for us, I sat down.


Chapter 33