Chapter 9
The day after Dan had kicked Steve out of his house, he de-activated his online profiles. He wasn’t up to going through this again, not after what had happened with Rocky, Damion, and finally Steve.
Dan was reasonably sure he wouldn’t do well with casual s*x. Having s*x with perfect strangers, pretending for the brief time you were together the physical intimacy meant something more than satisfying s****l needs, would leave him feeling empty. At the same time, he knew he wasn’t wired for being alone. But for just then he didn’t want to think about any of it.
The weekend after his debacle with Steve, Dan was trying to distract himself from the situation he found himself in by catching up on his professional reading. He’d neglected that for the last few weeks. He was immersed in
