Chapter 29

“No, it’s not all right, but I’ll do right by you next time, I promise.”

“Next time? There’s going to be a next time?”

“Well, yeah.”

He’d just died and gone to heaven, the more so since Tadder was promising him a repeat. No lonely jerk-off sessions. This might not last forever, but he’d cherish it for as long as it was his.

Rush tightened his hold on Tadder, opened his eyes, and smiled up at the ceiling.

“Okay.”

***

THEY MADE a tight pair, a couple. At least that was the way Tad saw it.

At first he’d been afraid that with Rush living at the ranch and constantly around, the excitement of their affair, so shiny and new, would wear off, but instead of it fizzling out, it just kept getting better and better, and he basked in the euphoria, doing things with Rush—and not all of them sexual—that he’d never even considered with any of his former boyfriends or girlfriends.

Those hadn’t been love affairs, it occurred to him, not the way his relationship with Rush was a love affair.