Even the nicest of guys can decide to cut loose at some point, especially if he's at college and a frat brother invites him to a party. Unfortunately, that can end quite badly. Luckily for Dante ap Owen, it doesn't -- until he keeps needing to piss every few minutes and he sees blood in his urine. Another stroke of luck for him is the substitute professor, also a medical doctor he’s been crushing on, who happens to be there when he passes out in class and pushes him to come to his clinic.<br><br>But Dante and his beloved, critically ill mother are under the control of his bitter uncle, who also provides health insurance. If his uncle finds out Dante is being treated for anything, let alone what Dante fears is an STD, he's ... Dante doesn't want to think about that. So he flees the clinic before he has to make a follow-up appointment.<br><br>The good doctor shows up at his uncle's farm when phone calls do nothing. And when Dante's uncle invites the doctor to dinner and serves a meal worthy of Medea, the doctor urges Dante and his mother to leave. But will they? And will Dante realize the doctor wants him as much as he wants the doctor?

So Let Us Rejoice

A tapping on the bathroom door caused me to jump.


“Did you say something, Dante?” Thank God it was my mother and not Uncle John.


“You don’t want to be late for lecture. You know your uncle doesn’t like it when you borrow his car, and if you don’t hurry, he might decide he needs it more than you do.”


She was right, he’d done it before. I was only able to go to Mercer University part time, but I couldn’t afford to miss another lecture because I didn’t have the means to get to the campus. “I’ll be out in a second. I just have to wash my hands.”


I gave a last, uneasy glance at the toilet, then flushed, tucked my dick away, and did up my trousers. I ran the water in the sink, all the while thinking furiously.


We didn’t have a computer here on the farm, but I could use one in the computer lab at the university. I’d look up my symptoms before I decided the best course of action to take.


Chapter 5