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

“That was exhilarating,” Greg said. “I felt so free, as if the world was mine for the taking.”


“In a different time and place, it might have been,” Nick replied.


“One where we wouldn’t be ostracized, or killed, for being what we are?”


“Yes. It will never happen, I’m afraid. That’s why…” Nick shook his head.


“Why you and others like you work with Kasper and Darwin.”


Greg kissed Nick’s cheek with a whispered, “We can dream, can’t we?”


“We can.” Nick turned his head to look at his lover. With a lustful smile, he said, “We’re getting morose when we could be doing something much more interesting.”


“Mr. Fontana, are you coming on to me?”


“If you have to ask, you don’t know me as well as I thought you did,” Nick replied, as he began undressing Greg. His lover returned the favor and soon they were both naked.


“Moonlight becomes you, to quote a corny line from some song,” Greg said, his gaze raking over Nick.


Chapter 44