When forty-year-old Chicago podiatrist Matthew Pepper is approached in a bar by college student Ryan Meade, he figures hooking up with the handsome twenty-one-year-old might be just what he needs to help him get over his recent breakup.<br><br>But the hookup doesn’t go as planned and Matthew writes the evening off as a failed one-night-stand. Ryan, however, views things differently. To him, a failed hookup is nothing more than an opportunity to try again.<br><br>Ryan pursues Matthew, not just because he wants to be with the man, but because he wants something ... and he’s determined to get it. Will Matthew find out Ryan isn’t as transparent as he claims to be? Does Lyin’ Ryan live up to his nickname?

Lyin' Ryan

There was no justification for the jealousy I felt toward Nicole. I’d never seen her or Donovan behave inappropriately toward each other. They truly acted like friends, but that never stopped me from imagining them fucking every single time I saw them together.


“Nicole’s going to Hawaii with her sisters next August to celebrate her fortieth birthday,” Donovan had announced when I walked in on them.


We’d talked about her trip and she asked when Donovan and I were planning to take a vacation. “You two should go somewhere fun.”


I’d fought to keep myself from saying something sarcastic in response. Donovan and I had never gone on vacation together. Hell, it had been a struggle sometimes to get him to go out in public with me in Chicago. Heaven forbid we’d travel out of state.


“Maybe next year,” he’d told Nicole.


Chapter 16