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

Keenan still saw Tucker frequently. He’d told his friend about Evan. Tuck seemed to be happy Keenan had found someone. Keenan suggested he and Evan and Tucker and Jane hang out or go out to eat occasionally. However, Tucker didn’t seem to be wild about that idea. He told Keenan Jane didn’t suspect anything about what the true nature of his relationship with Keenan had been. Tucker feared if the four of them were out together, and Evan did or said something which revealed he was more than Keenan’s friend…well, Jane might get suspicious Tucker’s relationship with Keenan might have been more than Tuck had led her to believe. Tuck didn’t want that. Keenan understood. However, it hurt that Tuck felt he needed to deny what to Keenan had been so special.


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