Tonbridge, Kent. Twenty-something Nico Bromley feels that he may never get over losing the love of his life, Davy, in a motorcycle accident. It has been three years, now. He was sure that sexy French stud Claude might have been the one, but their affair goes pear-shaped after Nico has a massive lottery win, with him rushing home to impart the good tidings, only to find Claude getting intimate with another man. Nico and Claude have always gone shares with the lottery tickets, but he is so incensed that he walks out on Claude, jacks in his job at the tax office, and makes arrangements to travel to France for a reunion with Antoine Davinsky, the professional footballer he had a fling with before hooking up with Claude.
All does not go to plan, however, when Nico stops off en-route at a Kentish coastal resort he has never visited before. Here he meets hunky barman Adam Templeton. It is love at first sight, with Nico unaware that Adam has a personal dilemma he needs to escape from.
Acting on a whim, Nico allows Adam to accompany him across the Channel, aware that this may put his plans for a rendez-vous with Adam in jeopardy~the fact that he and Adam are open about their sexuality, while Antoine is deeply closeted. Therefore, should he and the Frenchman take their relationship to the next level, things would have to be kept under wrap for the sake of Antoine's career.
Nico and Adam arrive at a hotel in Gravelines, near Dunkerque, where Antoine lives. Two days of bliss follow, causing Nico to change his mind about meeing up with Antoine. Then, when Adam suddenly disappears, giving every impression that he has returned to England to face whatever demons he has left behind, Nico changes his mind once more. He goes to Dunkerque, where Antoine owns a sumptuous penthouse.
For almost a month, the pair enjoy a blissful existence, until Fate raises its ugly head. It emerges that Adam did not return to England, that he was badly injured and hospitalised after a homophobic incident in Gravelines, and that he was not the attacker's only victim. Antoine is away from home when police visit and question Nico who, in a recurring Joey Jenkinson theme, enyoys a romantic liaison with one of the investigating officers, and which results in him being faced with a dilemma. Which lover will he choose? The hunky barman, or the sexy but closeted Frenchman?
WARNING: This story contains adult material of a sexual nature.
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