Not a day went by when he didn’t thank the Lord and all the angels above for giving him the strength to wait.
Because Vic knew up front Matt wasn’t going to sleep with him, at least not right away, and he’d been cool with it. Hell, Matt had been dating a coworker of his, Kyle, of whom Vic wasn’t a big fan, but he’d gone out of his way to see if he couldn’t somehow connect with Matt through him. That hadn’t worked, but neither had the relationship with Kyle—he wanted s*x, and soon, and the more he pressured, the less Matt wanted to be with him. When he’d met Vic, the man stood out in Matt’s mind like a knight in shining armor, a promise he hoped one day to attain, if he only could meet him again. By the time things with Kyle soured, Matt had set Vic up in his mind as a prince, a standard t
