The night before Noah Hill left his hometown of Mountain View, he had a drunken sexual tryst with his best friend, Lucas Wesson. Deeply in the closet, Noah is horrified at his behavior, and terrified of what Lucas would think of him. He left the next morning without saying goodbye, and effectively cut off all ties. He returns five years later to help his father, and runs into his old best friend almost as soon as he reaches town. And nothing has changed. He still loves Lucas, and he still can't stand to meet the other man's eyes.<br><br>Lucas has been through a lot in the past five years without his best friend's support. A marriage. A divorce. A child. Running his own business. He also remembers his one night with Noah with perfect clarity. For five years, he only wanted Noah to come home. But now that Noah is back, things have changed too much to ever be the same between them ...

My Only Home

“Jesus Christ, Luke. I can’t even…”


“Where were you?” Lucas blurted, with the first hint of anger Noah heard from him since he arrived.


Noah was happy to hear it. He deserved it. But he didn’t know how to answer the question.


Lucas didn’t give him the chance to pull his staggered thoughts together before he launched into his own rant. “I tried to understand, I did. When the entire goddamned town thought I was trying to kidnap my ownchild, and I didn’t have a friend in the world, I tried to understand why you were gone. You couldn’t send me a card? You couldn’t call just to say hey? And I thought maybe I’d never see you again, and I could come to terms with that because I thought I knew why. So why are you back now?”


“I didn’t think you’d want to see me.”


“Why? Why wouldn’t I want to see you?”


“Because…” Noah swallowed around the lump in his throat. “Because of what I did.”


Now Lucas looked more perplexed than angry. “What did you do?”


Chapter 8