Insomniac Sean Diaz spends his nights riding the subway around Manhattan, ignoring the people he might encounter, getting lost in the rhythms of the train so he’s exhausted enough to sleep once he gets home. A hallucination about his dead high school boyfriend turns it into an obsession, but when Sean sees him a second time, he nearly falls apart.<br><br>That’s how Judah Morey finds him. Concern prompts conversation, which in turn sparks friendship. When Judah invites Sean back to his place, Sean decides to take a chance for the first time in nearly a decade. Dating is new territory for him, but he thinks he’s ready for it. He just needs to figure out how to let go of the past so he can take that step into his future.

The Unbeaten Track

For instance, the scruff was a permanent feature, trimmed at least every day because it never seemed to change and the hair on his arms and peeking occasionally out his collar made it clear that he could grow it no problem. It managed to frame that mouth both to tantalize me to want more and to display its best assets without making it obvious. I found myself thinking of Judah’s lips at weird times during the day, like at work the other night when Raoul had sliced his thumb during prep cutting up the onions and then proceeded to suck on it to stop the bleeding while he finished up. When I got hard, it sure as fuck wasn’t because I was imagining Raoul sucking on my cock.


Chapter 7