Involved in separate accidents. Russel and Finn end up sharing a cubicle in the ER on a busy night. As the hours pass, separately and together, they face issues of life and death, human nature, addiction, perceived shortcomings, love, romance, and sexual arousal.<br><br>Both men are feeling flirty and friendly at first, until they end up in a heated argument about what feature in a man is more important, his face or his body. After some time alone to think, Russel is eager to apologize for losing his temper and to explain where he was coming from. Unfortunately, Finn never returns from surgery, leaving Russel both sorry and worried.<br><br>Is Russel’s chance to make amends really gone? What will happen if the two ever do come face to face again? Can Russel win Finn over or will the need to prove his point screw everything up again?

An Arm and a Leg

“Okay. I won’t. I’ll say this, inappropriate or not; I don’t look like either one of you. I don’t look like Liam Hemsworth, or the other Hemsworth, or the one after that. I look like Snow White’s ninth dwarf Ethnically Ambiguous Stumpy.”


Dominic raised a finger. “Yes. But you know what?” He lowered his voice, speaking barely above a whisper, now. “I have sex all the time.”


“Now, everyone knows.” Dominic’s scowl was so comical, it made me smile, Finn, too, I would have bet. “Men love me,” Dominic said. “Women love me. I don’t even remember the last person who rejected me. I remember the first…because that was a heartbreaker, but that wasn’t sex. That was unrequited love. If we conflate the two, well, that’s a whole other conversation, isn’t it?”


“I haven’t really been down that road,” I admitted. “The love thing, except in fantasies and daydreams.”


“That’s the only place it works.” Finn had been hurt.


Chapter 15