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

“They didn’t offer a job to me,” Nick replied, trying to make light of what he knew she was really asking.


“That’s not what I meant, and you know it. I thought the two of you…” She sighed.


“We had a good thing going,” Nick said. “But when it came down to it, I wasn’t about to stand in his way. We had a long talk and I convinced him that his career was more important than anything else, including me.”


“He’s fucking crazy,” Helen said, then blushed. “Sorry for the language.”


Nick smiled. “For a couple of days I thought so too, even though I pushed him into leaving. Now…” He shrugged then moved the meeting on to what needed to be discussed, business wise.


It was Tuesday evening, after a stressful day at the office, and Nick needed to work it off the way he sometimes did when that happened. Or the way he had, before Greg had come into his life, and his bed.


Chapter 33