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No One But You
Lovers Stacy James and Levi Wright keep their relationship spicy by
enjoying the little things in life. Levi welcomes Stacy home from a
business trip by delighting his partner with a quick trick in the men’s
room of a local pool hall.  An offhand comment by a stranger cools   
Stacy’s ardor, and sets in motion a chain reaction that rocks the very
foundation of Levi’s world. He’s never cheated on Stacy, but Stacy has
sudden doubts.  

On his own, Levi is tested in his discoveries – about Stacy, their
relationship, and about the kind of man he wants to be. One thing he
knows for certain. He’s not losing Stacy over a careless whisper that  
isn’t true, but will the only man he’ll ever love forgive his angry words?

Stacy made the worst mistake of his life telling his lover to find another
place to sleep. Levi might be younger, but he’s a man, with a man’s
pride. Stacy draws on all his experience to walk a road full of detours
and pitfalls to meet Levi halfway, and bring him home. Because for
Stacy, there’s no one but Levi.



EXCERPT


“Can you just let go of your notion that I’m missing out on life? I don’t
feel like I am.”

“Okay. But here’s the thing, Levi. I want…”

“Just stop. I love you.”

To my utter shock, Stacy grabbed both my wrists, his powerful grip tight
enough to bruise. His gaze bored into mine, freezing me cold.

“You stop, Levi. You listen, just this once. You’re so afraid I’ll be pissed
if I see you get a hard-on for some other guy, you run from me when I
want to talk about it. Do you think that in five years I’ve never seen
another man that gave me a little tingle? It happens to everyone, lover.
It’s not something to be ashamed of.”

My voice didn’t want to work. “I’m not you.”

“No, you’re not. I’ve never cheated on you, Levi.” He looked at me for
the longest moments of my life, his eyes gone black with some emotion I
had no name for.

I knew. I knew.

"I heard what the bartender said the other night. You need to know that
if it ever happens, and you trick some guy, you don’t need to keep it
from me. I expect you to first, be safe, and second, to tell me so we can
be more careful.”

Ice water tossed in my face would not have chilled me more than his
words.  "What the fuck is going on here, Stacy? I've never cheated on
you. Never. And I'm not starting now."

“Levi, we've been together a long time, and as a couple, we've enjoyed
unprotected sex for quite a while now. Do I need to be concerned?"

A fine trembling seized my body. This conversation was out of control,
the potential for disaster increasing by the second. My stomach
clenched in on itself until I fought back the dry heaves. The world
spiraled around me, going black at the edges.  I broke free of his hands.

"I love you. I never cheat on you. And yet you sit there and ask me if it's
possible I could have given you the clap - or something worse? Maybe I
should be the one worrying! And you have to do it here? You
motherfucker! I have to go in there and work!" I choked, unable to
breathe. "I never…"

Stacy's arms came around me. I shoved him away, holding him at bay.
The words came as I managed a deep breath. Horrible words that I
couldn’t stop from pouring out of me in my anger and pain that he didn’t
know me well enough to believe how much I loved him.

“Why don’t you go get a fucking blood test since you can’t trust me! Now
you listen to me. You decide whether or not you love me enough to
have me hang around, because if I’ve gotten a little old for you, you
should tell me. I’ll step aside so you can go find yourself another sixteen
year old!”

He drew back like I’d struck him, which I had. I’d lashed out, hitting him
with the most damaging words I owned. He’d been falsely accused of
having sex with a sixteen-year-old boy when he was twenty. The boy had
lied – Stacy hadn’t touched him – but the accusation had almost ruined
Stacy’s life. The pain lingered, and I, who loved him so much, knew the
wound lingered in him, unhealed at its deepest point.  

And I used it against him.


I reached for him and this time he batted my hands away.

“I’m sorry, Stace. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean that.”

“You said it, so you did mean it. Now get out of the car. I can’t be with
you right now.”

My stomach roiled. “Stacy, please. We need to go back home and talk
this out.”

He refused to look at me. The cold rage in his voice didn’t completely
disguise the hurt.  

“No, we don’t. Going home won’t fix this, Levi. I need some time alone.
Do us both a favor and find someplace else to sleep tonight.”
ISBN 978-1-60272-545-4
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