Lyncoln Ryland always saw himself as an ordinary man with an ordinary job, working maintenance in an ordinary mall. The only thing about him that isn’t ordinary are his feelings for the man who’s renovating the mall, but any kind of relationship with such a sophisticated man is highly unlikely.<br><br>Adam James is the wealthy man who owns the mall. He’s secretly been yearning for Lyncoln, a man he doesn’t see as ordinary in the least. But Adam’s family has plans for him, and they don’t include a relationship with a blue-collar worker.<br><br>All this is about to change when the sirens go off, signaling the possible end of the world. When the two men realize this isn’t a drill, they take shelter in the mall that isn’t quite as ordinary as everyone believes. What will the outcome be when two such disparate men must survive the apocalypse together?

Surviving the Apocalypse

So while they couldn’t leave the refuge the mall provided, he and Adam were able to leave the fallout shelter, and they’d made a cozy home for themselves in the courtyard.


“And I was working on a contract to rent space to a home furnishing company. If this had held off just a year…” Adam sighed.


Lync had heard rumors about the expansion. It would have been nice if they’d had a store like that they could rely on, with areas that were staged to show the various rooms in a house in such a way that potential buyers would fall all over themselves in their desire to have their bedroom, bathroom, living or dining room or kitchen look like that.


“Solar panels, Adam. Next time, make sure the mall has solar power for backup.”


“Right.” Adam pretended to take something from his pocket. Lync realized what it was supposed to be when Adam mimed flipping open a page, touching the tip of an imaginary pencil to his tongue, and jotting a note down on the page. “Duly noted.”


Chapter 18