A Door to the Heart

As Josh Tully returns home from running errands, he stumbles across a handsome man leaving his apartment complex. Distracted by the charming new stranger, Josh spills his groceries across the front stoop. As the new neighbor helps Josh pick up his belongings, a sudden surge of electricity sparks between the two young men. When Eddie returns to Josh’s apartment with a fresh gallon of milk, a chance meeting turns into mutual attraction. But a severe case of pneumonia lands Josh in the hospital and Eddie stays at his side, and their budding friendship deepens. Eddie is not the nesting type, and he does not stay in one place for long. But as days turn to weeks, something in Josh’s laid-back persona draws Eddie to the small Minnesota town of Gordonville and through the door of Josh’s heart. Will Eddie decide to stay this time ... and for how long?

Thomas Grant Bruso · LGBT+

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20 Chs

Chapter 20

As Josh rolls on top of Eddie, they knock heads. They both freeze in mid-stance. Dazed. Thrilled by their sexual impulses.

Agape, their mouths hover over each other. “I proved that I’m the bigger man,” Eddie says confidently.

Head bob. Josh half-smiles. “Bigger maybe. But not better.”

Eddie’s only response is to shake his head; he smirks, leans into Josh’s acidic morning breath, “I still hold my record of three-hundred.”

“Balls don’t make a man. Do you know what does?”

Eddie looks at him, wide-eyed, confused. “I dunno.”

Josh raises his head a few inches so his tongue brushes Eddie’s bottom lip. His mouth tastes salty. “This,” he says, gripping the back of Eddie’s head, pulling him deeper into his throaty French kiss.

Later that morning, sitting up in bed, eating Eddie’s excuse for breakfast—runny eggs and dry whole-wheat toast—Josh says, “Thanks for teaching me how to bowl.”

“No prob. That’s what friends are for, right?”

Friends?

To be continued

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