When Victor Hill bought a house with his boyfriend, Jian Kouri it was a dream come true. But now, two years later, instead of living their happily ever after, they hardly see the other awake.<br><br>With Jian out the door before Victor gets up in the morning, and asleep on the couch nearly as soon as he walks in the door, the life Victor imagined couldn’t be further from reality. They don’t talk; they don’t touch, and Victor fears he and Jian have already drifted too far apart.<br><br>The holiday season is a time for hope, but when Victor comes home to find Jian with a plan to woo him for Christmas, is it too little, too late? The dates are great, and there are filled with Christmas fun to get Victor in the right spirit for the holiday, but are they enough for the two of them to fall in love again? Or is there just too much in their relationship that needs fixing?

24 Dates

“Someone who likes yellow?” Jian grimaced. “Come on.”


Jian got out, waited for Victor to join him, and locked the car. He steered them toward—Victor read the sign. “Massage?”


“Yup, an hour of blissful, relaxing massage.”


Victor’s pulse sped up. “Are we getting naked?”


The look Jian gave him would’ve made him laugh under normal circumstances, but these weren’t normal circumstances.


“You’ve gotten a massage before, right?”


“What? Not everyone has…” He didn’t know how to finish the sentence. He’d always found the thought of a stranger touching his body weird, and to pay money for it? Not something he’d do.


“Okay…you can keep your underwear on. They cover you with a blanket and only bare the part of you they’re working on.”


Victor nodded, not wanting to ruin the date.


Chapter 22