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Chapter 1

Zach

My brother was a dead man

“Just stop by and check on him, Zach As a favor to me It'll take five minutes”

Those were the words Jake had spoken to me shortly after my plane had landed in Missoula, Montana The him in question was the son of my brother’s best friend, Xander, and Xander’s husband, Bennett But the five minutes had quickly turned into ten, then fifteen

A brief glance at one by

Whichhour

It took everything in me not to yell out of o inside already

Because maybe then I could finally take my eyes off of him

I couldn't rown up in just the past couple of years When I'd first met him, he'd been only fifteen and he’d worn his innocence and sweetness on his sleeve, along with his heart Back then, I'd wanted to tell hi that was… how exposed it left him to people, and to ainst hiain

Men like me

No, I wasn't one of those types who intentionally sought to use and to hurt, but I was just as guilty of leaving shattered lives inand hadn't since repeated the ot involved with knew the score Sex was just that—sex And it rarely went beyond one encounter