Back in the Game

Twenty-six and gay, Shane Polk isn’t having a good year. After blowing out his ankle during an Everglade Eagles football game, he does eight months of rehab in Pittsburgh. Now that rehabilitation is over, Shane returns home to Florida and comes to terms with the fact that he has to get back in the game, which isn’t easy for him.<br><br>Summertime along the Gulf Coast for Shane has been better. Not only does he have the hassles of starting a new job with the Eagles, he grows jealous of his best friend, Frankie, who is falling in love with Mr. Right in the Caribbean.<br><br>Unfortunately, Shane can’t seem to get a grip on his own love life. Sexy football players come and go, none of whom are worth a long-term relationship. Then he meets Tommy Rawe, a young man with a charming smile. Is Tommy someone special who just might be able to change Shane’s topsy-turvy world for the better?

R.W. Clinger · LGBT+

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48 Chs

Chapter 42

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I thought his swimming one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. He was like a dolphin in the swift water. Gracefully, he waved on the Gulf’s surface, rising and falling. His back was a splay of muscles, and his legs were thick and white as he swam. The jock was a free spirit in the blue liquid and seemed content there. His butterfly stroke looked strong and swift, and he moved with a melancholic elegance that I graded as remarkable. A lot people couldn’t swim inside the Gulf because of its swift current, but Matthew was different, perhaps part fish, and something of a spectacle that I was heedlessly drawn to and enjoyed watching.

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I questioned his stupidity. Who wouldn’t? Didn’t he know of my prying, spying, and studying him? Couldn’t he determine my existence in his world? Was Matthew oblivious to my watching, or simply playing a game with me?

I didn’t know, but would soon find out.

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