But They're a Couple!

Stephen “Scooter” Valenti was lonely. In the past two years his life had been turned upside down. First it was by a court case where he and his best friend, Tyler “Ty” Cameron, were the defendants after being arrested for getting into a fistfight… with each other. Second, he saw his straight, childhood BFF Ty fall in love… with another guy he’d met at the ranch where they filled out their court-mandated agreement for community service. He felt like he’d lost his best friend—Ty and his fiancé, Eric, were getting married soon and Ty hadn’t even asked him to be his best man. All of his friends had partners, and all of them gay… which he had to laugh about. His love life was non-existent—he hadn’t dated any women for over two years, and hadn’t been laid in longer. Scooter especially missed spending time with his friends, Brian and Tony, who lived and worked at the ranch.

Brian Crenshaw and Anthony “Tony” Caprico worked at Rancho Lobos. Brian was a ranch hand and Tony was the assistant foreman… they’d also been lovers for eight years. They’d met Scooter the first weekend Ty and he were scheduled to begin their eight weeks of community service. Tony befriended him the first night, but it was Brian that surprised Scooter. He couldn’t believe a gay guy was totally into sports, which dominated their conversations. Scooter used to spend more time with them than anyone at the ranch—and after their community service was over—but over the past few months he’d come up less and less. They missed him, but just how much they missed him, and why, wasn’t something they’d discussed with each other, or anyone for that matter... and definitely not the straight man they’d befriended.

* M/M Romance * Str8/Gay * Friends to Lovers * HEA *