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figure out.” He leaned back against the brown booth seat.
    “I just don’t believe in love. Look at the fucking divorce rate and tell me how anyone can. It’s a lie people try to sell you. I don’t believe people are capable of completely giving themselves to someone else. See? Nothing exciting. I’m just a cynic.” Landon didn’t look as relaxed as Rod thought he wanted to. He had his right arm stretched out, his thumb tapping on the table. His dark eyes had a far off look to them, his voice rough, irritated. There was more to it than he shared, and damn it if Rod didn’t want to know more. Who was he to dig into Landon’s pain? He was just the guy who sold him lube and told him about a job.
    So he leaned back as well and wondered if he pulled off the relaxed look he thought Landon sought. “Again, what does love have to do with sex?”
    “Nothing, I guess. Not always. If I downloaded a hook up app right now, met some guy in a hotel and fucked his brains out, that’s one thing, but it’s different when you know someone. There’s the possibility for all the other shit to get in the way.”
    Rod sighed. He guessed he could see where Landon was coming from. “I get what you’re saying. It’s not that I don’t believe in love. I look at people like Bryce and Nick and I have to believe. Hell, they’re fucking crazy about each other. They’d never been with men before. They changed their whole worlds for one another, but I know how to draw the line. I know that’s possible for them, but it’s not possible for me. So yeah, I agree in that I don’t see some guy falling head over fucking heels for me, but I also don’t let that get in the way of getting off.”
    “You said falling for you.”
    “Huh?” Rod asked.
    “You said you don’t see a man falling in love with you, not the other way around.”
    Rod hadn’t realized that’s what he said, but he also didn’t doubt it. He didn’t believe someone would fall in love with him, and he was okay with that. “So? We were talking about you and how you have this whole thing backward.”
    “Who says I’m the one who has it backward?”
    “I believe I just did.”
    The previous tautness in Landon’s body seemed to have disappeared. His right arm was loose beside him, his hand maybe in his lap. His shoulders weren’t tense, and his eyes sexy and playful like they were those times Rod had seen him in the store.
    With the left side of his mouth slightly tilted up, he leaned forward. “Yes, you did.” The waiter came back and handed them their beers. When he walked away again, Landon held up his glass. “Different strokes for different folks, I guess.”
    Rod clanked his glass together with Landon’s. “For you, I guess. I’m not satisfied with just stroking. I want the real thing, thank you very much.”
    “What am I going to do with you?” Landon took a drink of his beer, his eyes holding Rod’s the whole time.
    “I’m sure you’ll think of something.” He took two long swallows of beer, that little whisper inside him hoping that Landon stuck around long enough to figure something out.

     
     

CHAPTER SIX
    Landon sat on a stool as he looked at the engine of the bike in front of him. It was a nice bike, but it had a bent crankshaft, which wasn’t good.
    “How’s it going?” Bryce walked up to him and stood on the other side of the bike. Landon had been working with him for two weeks. He liked the guy. He was funny, smart, and knew what he was doing when it came to bikes.
    “The customer isn’t going to be happy, but it’s nothing we can’t fix. We just can’t fix it for cheap.”
    Bryce nodded. “All that matters is that it can be fixed.”
    “True.”
    Bryce looked behind Landon and Landon saw a pleased smile spread across his face. “Hey, baby. What are you doing here?”
    Landon turned around to see a tall, dark-haired man he assumed must be Nick. He’d heard plenty about the guy but had yet to meet him. He met Bryce at the