Gorgeous heads off into a hallway – and then reappears, the carrier now full of yowling grey cat.
Which he figures he might as well do in the warmth of the Vino and Veritas bookstore with a hot cup of coffee.Īfter a couple of hot drinks and a chat with Briar, the store clerk – who gives Tai a few tips about the local amenities – Tai’s attention is caught by another customer, a tall, blond, mouth-wateringly gorgeous man wearing a harried expression and carrying an empty cat-carrier. And now – broke, homeless, alone (and fucking freezing) – all he’s got is time to mull over his foolishness. He knows how stupid it was to allow Dion to control every aspect of his life, but hadn’t wanted to admit it to himself before now it was easier to look away and believe everything was okay.
His payment cards are declined – Dion has cleaned out all his accounts – and Tai has just three hundred dollars to his name. Next morning, when he goes to the nearest bakery to get some breakfast, he realises the situation is even worse than he’d thought. He hightails out of there with nothing more than the clothes on his back – which are far better suited to a night out clubbing than to a night spent by the side of the road in freezing Vermont, which is where he’s ended up after getting in his crappy car and driving just about as far away as he could get. It’s not the first time Dion has cheated on him, but it’s the last – Tai is done. When Tai Samuels walked in on his long-term boyfriend Dion and found him having fun being the filling in a twink sandwich, he stormed out – of Dion’s life and of his life in Boston, where he’s lived for the past three years.
If you haven’t picked up any of the earlier entries, don’t worry all the Vino and Veritas books are standalones so you can jump in here and not feel like you’ve missed anything. Jay Hogan takes the number of books in the Vino and Veritas series into double figures with Unguarded – the story of a closeted, repressed bisexual veterinary surgeon and an ex-pat Kiwi running from an abusive relationship – and it’s the best book of the series (that I’ve read) so far.
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