Jason Mann needs a vacation, badly. A psychologist, he feels like he works all the time and plays very little. Honestly, he just wants to go away with his ruggedly handsome boyfriend, policeman Dillon Snyder. He doesn’t care where, but hopefully soon.<br><br>A vacation isn’t easy to plan in their lives, though. Jason has his string of patients he helps, and Dillon cleans up the streets as an officer of the law. Plus, their friend Gillian pulls them in different directions, always demanding. Something has to give, and quickly. Before Jason loses his mind over his job and friend, he desperately needs to get away.<br><br>When Dillon has an opportunity to fly south for a vacation in Florida for eleven days, Jason’s on board. But with every treat in life comes a price. Will this adventure and a colony of nudists rip the two men apart, or will their days of fun in the sun only bring them closer together?

Rugged Mann

He gathers his leather satchel/briefcase/murse from a drawer inside his desk, loads it with paperwork that makes him look (and feel, because emotions, mostly pride and self-reward, are important for any human being when they have a job) professional and occupied, slips into his wool coat, a gift from Dillon this past Christmas, and heads out of his office, locking the door behind him.


He takes the elevator to the first floor. Some Maroon 5 song plays down from the corner speakers, upbeat, happy sounding, catchy because of repetitive lyrics. Each time the steel, iron, and aluminum cage declines from floor to floor he hears a soft ding, which mostly becomes irritating and doesn’t sound simpatico with Adam Levine’s music. Irritants of life are like this, of course: unrewarding, useless, but potent.


Chapter 24