I came home for the holidays for thirty days of my mother's famous cooking, a break from the military, and a return to the hometown I left behind. Then tragedy struck, and my whole world shattered. In walked Femi.
My childhood best friend. A brilliant, too-sweet-for-his-own-good professor who stepped in as my rock when I needed him most. He’s my calm. My constant.
When a server mistakes us for a couple, I propose a ridiculous idea: One fake relationship during our holiday escape to Lake Placid with his family. Zero strings attached.
But the more we pretend—the late-night talks, the hand-holding, the stolen moments of comfort—the more I feel that electric pull that was never there before. The line between "best friend" and "boyfriend" is blurring with every touch.
He thinks he knows everything about me. He thinks I’m the jock, the man he's always depended on. But I'm holding onto a truth I've spent years hiding, a truth I never planned to share.
Am I falling for the picture-perfect holiday fantasy? Or could this secret I've been holding be the end of my real-life happily ever after?
Genre: Gay Romance
My childhood best friend. A brilliant, too-sweet-for-his-own-good professor who stepped in as my rock when I needed him most. He’s my calm. My constant.
When a server mistakes us for a couple, I propose a ridiculous idea: One fake relationship during our holiday escape to Lake Placid with his family. Zero strings attached.
But the more we pretend—the late-night talks, the hand-holding, the stolen moments of comfort—the more I feel that electric pull that was never there before. The line between "best friend" and "boyfriend" is blurring with every touch.
He thinks he knows everything about me. He thinks I’m the jock, the man he's always depended on. But I'm holding onto a truth I've spent years hiding, a truth I never planned to share.
Am I falling for the picture-perfect holiday fantasy? Or could this secret I've been holding be the end of my real-life happily ever after?
Genre: Gay Romance
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