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

She laughs, head titled back, bird bones clicking together at her neck, below her Adam’s apple. The beads around her wrist twist and clank. “They definitely represent a strong connection. Perhaps a marriage proposal. Perhaps the unification of two people in your life that you know. Perhaps a marriage between you and Dillon…or others. I don’t have the details. But you are correct. They symbolize a union.”


He beams. Something warm rushes through his chest. His stomach tingles and his ears feel as if they are burning, particularly their lobes.


Chapter 28