22 “Are you nervous?” Ryan asked as they pulled into the driveway of The Country Cottage. “A little bit,” Tim admitted, putting the car into park. His car. Their car. It had been a very long drive, but with Ryan along with him the time seemed to have flown by. Everyone he’d told about what he’d been planning since meeting Ryan in the airport thought that he was out of his mind, especially after a video of the two of them at the airport had gone viral online, but nothing felt more sane and more right than coming back here with Ryan. For good. Of course, tenure at a prestigious university had been very difficult to walk away from, but the thought of the alternative was much worse. “Don’t be. Everything’s going to be great. It’s going to take some time to get the place up and running, bu

