When he sees entrepreneur Mitch O'Shea whirling around an empty building, contractor Ben Behr is enchanted. Even though his two brothers are gay, Ben always thought he was a ladies' man until he met Mitch. Despite his feelings, Ben knows San Francisco native Mitch is totally out of his league. What could Ben possibly do to get out-and-proud Mitch to notice him? Turns out Mitch is just as attracted to Ben. As they compete in car rallies, camp in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and tour the bars Mitch owns in the city, they realize how stifled they've been their entire lives. Maybe looking over the fence and jumping it to explore what's on the other side are good ideas. When these two seemingly opposites get together, will Ben and Mitch find out they have the world at their feet and might even have love in their hearts?

Waking the Behr

After Mitch talked to Abe and walked around the building with him, he drove back to the Bay Area, Glen, and the clubs. I didn’t envy him the coming week. Seemed to me that Raven, the singer who I thought was his friend, would be his only bit of peace and quiet. Maybe listening to her croon would go a long way toward soothing him.


“You wanna talk?” Abe asked when he got back to the office after seeing Mitch off.


The nice thing about talking to Abe was that we knew our roles. I slouched down in my chair and put my feet on his desk. We’d written our bro script so long ago that it was comforting when he growled at me to get my damned shoes off his shit. The warmth of brotherly love made me smile.


“So what’s up? Besides your stinky feet?” he asked.


Where to start? I let my head fall back and looked at the ceiling, hoping the right words would drop into my brain.


“How’d you know you were gay?” I asked. All I knew was bluntness, so that’s what I went with.


Chapter 24