On Sunday afternoon, I’d just come back from the grocery store when I got a phone call from someone I didn’t want to talk with.
“Can I stop by and see you later?” she asked. “I just want to talk.”
I don’t know why I agreed, but I did, and we made plans to meet at my place around six that evening.
Knowing that Donovan dated women for most of his life and realizing that he still found them attractive (and vice versa) brought a new set of challenges to our relationship. Most gay men worry that their boyfriend will cheat on them with another man, but that wasn’t my concern with Donovan. Instead, I worried that he’d cheat on me with a woman. And not just any woman, one woman in particular: Nicole Lacey.
Nicole and Donovan used to work together at a local news station and they’d known each o
