Two months had passed since Arliss and Sean became a couple. As Sean rode the “L” south to meet up with Arliss after his shift at Tricks, he could hardly believe their union had happened…and happened so fast. Sean had never been one to rush into things, but after the day they “made up” in his bedroom, he knew with a certainty that bordered on obsession that he never wanted to be apart from Arliss and would tolerate it only when things like work intruded.
The last couple of months had approached bliss. In his thirty-odd years, Sean realized, he had never really been in love. There had been lust, there had been infatuation, and there had even been need doing a damn good impersonation of love, but now that the real thing had come along, Sean knew he had never met it before. Although it had t
