Beards and Babies

The bare naked buns of my brother's best friend greet me in Florida.

I haven’t seen Soren Mathews since the most embarrassing night of my life. Now ten years older, he’s all grizzly man. With a sexy beard and new scars, he draws me right back under his spell.

For one night, the storm keeps us under one roof. Our bodies beg for each other in a blaze of heat, but in the morning he’s gone.

I try to move forward with a new life in Candy Cane Key but less than two months later I’m terrified that it’s much more then the common cold making me feel so sick…