On a bright autumn day, Flynn Marlowe lost his best friend, a beagle named Barley, while out on a hike in Seattle’s Discovery Park. On a cold winter day, Mac Bowersox found his best friend, a lost, scared, and emaciated beagle, on the streets of Seattle. Two men. One dog. When Flynn and Mac meet by chance in a park the next summer, there’s a problem -- who does Barley really belong to? Flynn wants him back, but he can see that Mac rescued him and loves him just as much as he does. Mac wants to keep the dog, and he can imagine how heartbreaking losing him would be -- but that's just what Flynn experienced. A “shared custody” compromise might be just the way to work things out. But will the arrangement be successful? Mac and Flynn are willing to try it ... and along the way, they just might fall in love.

Lost and Found

They’d kidded each other a lot. There was much sexual innuendo and flirting for the entire late afternoon and early evening. They’d sat close at Gas Works, their shoulders and sometimes their legs touching. Flynn found these seemingly innocent touches intensely erotic. He didn’t think his erection had flagged much past half-mast the entire time they’d been together. He wondered how he had enough blood flow to his brain to drive or to make even mundane conversation.


He needed, he knew, to go inside with Mac and Barley. He seriously thought that if Mac were to turn to him and say something along the lines of “Well, thanks for a lovely time. We’ll see you later in the week,” Flynn would simply die…or explode. Especially the latter—and right in his pants.


Chapter 51