Shy and private, Charlie Labrecque has lived a lie for most of his adult life, choosing to marry a woman and father a child rather than come out of the closet. But now that he is divorced and sees his young son only half the year, he decides it is time to start being honest with himself. And his friends. Starting with his best friend, openly gay Bryce Hanson.<br><br>Bryce responds with his encouragement and promises to be Charlie's training wheels through the difficult transition. But now that both men feel like they can be honest with each other, new desires are found, and new truths are spoken ...

A Simple Truth

In that moment, Charlie knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’d made the right decision.


“Tell me what to do to make it all up to you,” he said, his words rushed. “Anything. You name it.”


“Don’t worry about it. You don’t need to…make anything up to me. Unless you want to stay here tonight and make up for the week we’ve lost.”


Charlie drowned in Bryce’s bright eyes, the eyes he’d dreamed about every night for the past six days “I don’t want to go,” he murmured. “Part of the reason I got so scared last weekend is because it didn’t seem possible that something so right could happen so effortlessly. That you could have been there the whole time and I just needed to say please and I’d have everything I’ve always wanted.”


Bryce snorted. “Imagine how scared I was when I took one look at my married neighbor and fell head over heels.”


Chapter 28