To most people who know him, Nick Fontana is the owner of a prestigious advertising agency. To a select few, he’s known as Niko, a man who deals with very sensitive problems no one else can handle. As a result, Nick has never found a man to love -- because he won't allow it to happen. Then he meets flirtatious Greg Tyson while out running. He thinks nothing of it until Greg applies for a job at Nick's ad agency. Greg is exactly what Nick is looking for in an employee. Hiring him, however, might turn out to be the biggest mistake of Nick's life ... or the beginning of something new, if Nick is willing to open himself up and let Greg in. Doing so will require an amount of trust Nick isn’t certain he can give without endangering Greg's life -- and losing his love -- in the process.

Love Was Not an Option

“You can never say it too often. You should know that. I love you too, and then some,” Nick replied after returning the kiss then giving him another one. “I expect to this—” he waved his arm around to encompass the living room, “—spotless when I get back.”


“Then leave, so I can get started,” Greg replied, laughing.


“I am, I am.” They shared one more kiss, then Nick took off.


Nick paced the living room on one of the few evenings in the last two months that he and Greg weren’t spending together. Greg had the flu, which he didn’t want to pass on to Nick or anyone else. As a resulthe’d spent the last couple of days at home, trying to recuperate.


“Blurt it out? Yeah, that would go over well. Take him out to a fancy restaurant for dinner and drinks before breaking the news that I’m not quite what I seem?”


Chapter 29