I considered the situation.
He’d freak out our parents, and all the guests, important guests. But he’d been such a very good boy. He’d worked so hard through law school, and he hadn’t pulled a single stunt since that firecracker dare over two years ago. Besides, he and I had jumped off that guesthouse roof into the pool about a hundred times in our youth when no one was home. It was hardly dangerous. And it was his graduation party.
Decision made, I put my palms up in alarm. “Andy, don’t! It’s too far. You won’t make it! Come on down, honey, please?”
“Tell me you love me!” he insisted, backing up and crouching down for a sprint.
“I love you, crazy person! Now don’t do it! You’ll start your career in a full-leg cast! You’ll break your neck hitting the water too hard! You’ll drown! You’ll—”
Andy ran full tilt toward the edge of the roof, leaped into thin air, rolled into a ball, and landed in the pool with a huge splash.
Everyone on the sides of the pool got wet, including me and his mother.
Andy bobbed to the surface and wiped his face, grinning.
“I need a drink,” his mother muttered, walking away.
He swam toward me, and I met him at the edge of the pool. I squatted down and his wet hand grasped my shirt. His eyes were shining.
“I love you too, wingman,” he said, and he kissed me.
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Having been, at various times and under different names, a minister’s daughter, a computer programmer, a game designer, the author of paranormal thrillers, a fan-fiction writer, an organic farmer, and a profound sleeper, Eli is happy these days writing love stories.
As an avid reader of such, she is tinkled pink when an author manages to combine literary merit, vast stores of humor, melting hotness, and eye-dabbing sweetness into one story. She promises to strive to achieve most of that most of the time. She currently lives on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, three bulldogs, two cows, a cat, and a potbellied pig. She enjoys reading in all genres and, when she can be pried away from her ipad, hiking and biking.
Eli Easton has published 24 books in m/m romance since 2013. She won the Rainbow Award for Best Contemporary Romance in 2014 (The Mating of Michael) and in 2016 (A Second Harvest). Her Howl at the Moon series of humorous dog shifter romances have become fan favorites and placed in the Rainbow Awards and the Goodreads M/M Group Reader’s Choice awards. She is best known for romances with humor and a lot of heart.
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