Chapter 6

The truth was, there’d been times he’d come awfully close to making a pass at Jesse. Scared of destroying their friendship, he never had, but it didn’t mean he hadn’t thought about it. Finally, he’d gotten to where he avoided any physical contact for fear of betraying those troublesome longings.

Could he keep that under control? Would he need to? Hell, they’d probably both be naked. He’d seen Jess in the nude—skinny dipping in a stock tank when they were kids, in the high school locker room when they played football—but not as an adult, a fully developed man. This is going to be a challenge to beat ‘em all!