Keenan Hunter, a na?ve farm boy, quickly falls for his college roommate, Tucker Reynolds, a more sophisticated city slicker. For a time, Keenan's feelings for Tucker appear to be reciprocated, although neither man openly expresses any feelings they may have for the other. For reasons Keenan can't understand, Tucker starts to date Jane Williams, a fellow student. Keenan deals with the pain of rejection by finding another man to love. But time and again, this proves unsuccessful. Tucker has captured Keenan's heart and no one else can match the forever love Keenan thought he had with Tucker. When Tucker marries Jane, he asks Keenan to be his best man. Keenan reluctantly agrees and performs his duties, all the while hiding the pain of his broken heart. The experience leaves Keenan with a life-long aversion to weddings. Years pass and the two men drift apart. Keenan becomes the head veterinarian at an animal rescue center. And because of a three-legged Yorkshire terrier, Tucker comes back into Keenan's life. Circumstances have changed for Tucker. Will these changes finally allow Keenan to regain his forever love? Maybe weddings aren't so bad after all.

Keenan's Forever Love

The next morning, Keenan awoke to the sound of the shower. He stretched, turned over, and looked at Tucker’s empty bed. Keenan smiled sleepily, remembering the night before and his happiness that this man had come into his life. He looked at the clock on the table between the two beds. It was only seven-thirty, but to this farm boy, whose day for years had started much earlier with the milking of fifty or so Holsteins, it was like sleeping-in until noon.


The sound of the shower stopped. Keenan sat up on the edge of his bed, careful to tuck his ample morning wood into his boxers. He looked up as the bathroom door opened. A naked Tucker emerged, head lowered, and covered with a towel as he dried his hair.


Chapter 3