I'm not here to heal. I'm here to audit.
Arete Resort is supposed to be where broken men find their way back. My job is to find out if that's true before the investors write another check. Two months, one alias, simple enough.
Except I have my own reasons for knowing what rock bottom looks like. The accident I caused. The back that never healed right. The pills I smuggled in that are nobody's business but mine.
Then there's Luka.
He's new. Assigned to guide me like I'm something he can fix. I don't trust the program. I don't trust him. But he doesn't push. He doesn't perform. And when I'm being an ass, he tells me so directly, which is more than anyone has done in years. He just keeps showing up, and somewhere in the space between his patience and my resistance, the performance starts to crack.
The lies were supposed to stay simple.
They didn't.
The audit was the job.
Luka was supposed to be nothing.
He isn't.
Genre: Gay Romance
Arete Resort is supposed to be where broken men find their way back. My job is to find out if that's true before the investors write another check. Two months, one alias, simple enough.
Except I have my own reasons for knowing what rock bottom looks like. The accident I caused. The back that never healed right. The pills I smuggled in that are nobody's business but mine.
Then there's Luka.
He's new. Assigned to guide me like I'm something he can fix. I don't trust the program. I don't trust him. But he doesn't push. He doesn't perform. And when I'm being an ass, he tells me so directly, which is more than anyone has done in years. He just keeps showing up, and somewhere in the space between his patience and my resistance, the performance starts to crack.
The lies were supposed to stay simple.
They didn't.
The audit was the job.
Luka was supposed to be nothing.
He isn't.
Genre: Gay Romance
Used availability for Romeo Alexander's The Man I Lied To