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

“See you around, Jason. Thanks for the chat.”


Jason doesn’t respond. He watches Ben hobble away, returning to his job, damaged for life, physically and emotionally. Jason slides Ben’s phone number to the opposite side of the table. He eats and enjoys his salad and onion rings. When he leaves the bistro, he decides not to take Ben’s phone number with him. What’s done is done, he decides, being honest with himself, and Ben 16: Officer Kory Spike


It stops raining but it’s still icy and cold outside the restaurant. Thank Christ! Jason decides to head home. He climbs inside his Tundra, leaves the bistro’s parking lot and the island, and…approximately four miles away from the island on Barter Run Road he sees the bright glare of red-blue-white strobes in his rearview mirror. His eyes steer to the speedometer and he notes that he’s going fifty-five miles in a forty-five-mile zone. “Fuck! This is not going to be good.”


Chapter 38