Funeral home owner and undertaker Dual Hood knows a good thing when he sees it, so when Charlie Soder applies for the job of embalmer, he snatches up the young man in a heartbeat. Charlie, fresh-faced and just out of college, also knows a good thing when he sees it, and immediately sets his sights on his new sexy boss.<br><br>It doesn’t take long for sparks to fly and romance to blossom. But Dual worries what folks in his small Mississippi town will say, and whether his family-owned business will suffer if word goes round about his new love interest. He isn’t at all certain he has the courage to do the right thing and grab love before it slips through his fingers.

The Undertaker's Secret

“I need to shower,” Charlie said. “Your dad had the right idea, putting a shower in here. I don’t want to go back to my apartment after all this…stuff we’ve been doing…you know what I mean?”


There was a long bench to the side of the shower. Charlie walked over to the bench, casually shrugged off his clothes and stepped under the steaming hot water. For a long time, I stood there and watched. And admired. And lusted—my cock was harder than a pocket full of hammers. But it was more than just lust, I knew. There was something deeper, and purer, and truer.


I knew it was, but I didn’t want to admit it. I wasn’t ready. I felt protective of this young man. Connected. Intertwined. Enthralled. Smitten. But also detached, and careful, as though I were in the presence of something extremely valuable and fragile and precious.


“Why don’t you come join me?” he called from across the room.


Chapter 16