Rafael Patino has a great life in Rain Valley. He’s a teacher at the high school, has a great group of friends, and enjoys the occasional baseball game. Other than the sporadic call from his drunken mother, he’s pretty content. He’s also been in love with his best friend Dustin for nearly a decade. Years of keeping those feelings under control are put to the test when they begin a summer project together. Dustin Vance builds furniture for a living, has just earned his pilot’s license, and has an amazing best friend. When he buys a 1976 Cessna Skyhawk, he asks Rafael to help restore it, then travel with him to Wisconsin for the largest aviation convention in the world. As they spend their days working on the plane, they begin to spend their nights together. Will they find love in the clouds, or will they stall out before they even take off?

Love in the Clouds

Holy hell. Vulnerability and need shone in Dustin’s eyes, and Rafael had to have him in his arms. He’d waited long enough. So he wove his way through the dancers while Dustin watched him.


He stopped inches away from him, close enough for Dustin’s scent to fill his nostrils and shoot to his dick. He turned and held out his hand. “You must be Conner. I’m Rafael.”


Conner shook his hand, then laughed. “Fuck. You’reRaf?”


“Interesting,” he said, his gaze returning to Dustin.


Dustin shrugged, seeming to finally pull himself together. He smiled, albeit somewhat shakily. “I mentioned the…plane.”


“Yeah, right, it was the planehe kept talking about.” Conner slapped his hand over his mouth. “Sorry. No filter. I mean, umm yeah, he told me about the plane.”


“Do you want to get a drink?” Dustin asked, turning to head off the dance floor.


Rafael wrapped his fingers around the man’s wrist. “No. I want to dance.”


Chapter 32