Ben lives in his own apartment and is a diplomat of some sort. We do eventually find out that Jason is a university student, studying to become a teacher, and that he’s living at home with his parents and younger brother while he’s at school. The Couple: We don’t really get to know all that much about our two leads, Jason and Ben. As far as I can tell, the stories are all standalone shorts from many different authors. Members of the group (from the Goodreads website) submitted prompts based on photos and authors in the group chose a prompt and photo and wrote a short story.

The Series: This story is part of M/M Romance Group’s Don’t Read in the Closet event of 2013, Love Has No Boundaries. The emotions and suspense are high in this one, not really any humour this time, but this is definitely another great read from Lisa Henry. I was actually pretty worried about how this one was gonna turn out because we don’t see anything from Ben’s point of view, so he’s a bit of a wildcard, we don’t know for sure how he really feels about Jason. You really come to feel for Jason as you read his internal anguish and about how ashamed he feels that he’s fallen so hard for someone who might not reciprocate those feelings. This story is emotionally intense, and quite angsty, as we follow Jason as he struggles with his wants and desires and whether or not he should tell Ben about them. These two men have been fuckbuddies for the past five months and now Jason is struggling with the fact that he wants more. It’s a glimpse into the lives of Jason and Ben at a time where they’ve reached a turning point in their relationship.

This is definitely something that could easily be part of a much larger story. “Nobody had ever known every inch of Jason’s body the way that Ben did.”

Born This Way by Poppy Dennison