Home Sweet Home

By Clare London

The attraction between Chaz and Ryan is as strong as ever but they’ve taken a relationship break, frustrated by each other’s lifestyle. Chaz is a drifter, casual to the point of careless. Ryan is a control freak, preferring order and organisation. It just wasn’t working between them.
When Chaz moves apartment yet again, the project is fraught with chaos and plenty of breakages. Despite Chaz’s determination to be independent, Ryan comes to help out. And Chaz admits he’s grateful for the friendly support. Or at least, that's how it starts.
He realises just how much he’s missed Ryan: just how much the other man’s care added to his life. Maybe it’s not too late to make some changes. Maybe there can be a middle ground for two such different men – because the reward is worth it.
This book is 10k words long.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clare London
• Release date: Jun 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370410217

Clare London

Clare took the pen name London from the city where she lives, loves, and writes. A lone, brave female in a frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home, she juggles her writing with the weekly wash, waiting for the far distant day when she can afford to give up her day job as an accountant. She’s written in many genres and across many settings, with novels and short stories published both online and in print. She says she likes variety in her writing while friends say she’s just fickle, but as long as both theories spawn good fiction, she’s happy. Most of her work features male/male romance and drama with a healthy serving of physical passion, as she enjoys both reading and writing about strong, sympathetic and sexy characters.Clare currently has several novels sulking at that tricky chapter 3 stage and plenty of other projects in mind . . . she just has to find out where she left them in that frenetic, testosterone-fuelled family home.All the details and free fiction are available at her website. Visit her today and say hello!Join up for her newsletter at http://bit.ly/2WpHlyK and receive a free short story!Clare also writes as Stella Shaw and launched her Love at the Haven series of rent boy romances in 2021.Website + blog: http://www.clarelondon.com / stellashawauthor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/clarelondonTwitter: https://twitter.com/clare_londonGoodreads: http://bit.ly/2lNSfC2Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/clarelondonBookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/clare-londonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarelondon11/Quids&Quills: http://www.quidsandquills.com (accountancy for UK authors)

Book preview

Home Sweet Home

The attraction between Chaz and Ryan is as strong as ever but they’ve taken a relationship break, frustrated by each other’s lifestyle. Chaz is a drifter, casual to the point of careless. Ryan is a control freak, preferring order and organisation. It just wasn’t working between them.

When Chaz moves apartment yet again, the project is fraught with chaos and plenty of breakages. Despite Chaz’s determination to be independent, Ryan comes to help out. And Chaz admits he’s grateful for the friendly support. Or at least, that's how it starts.

He realises just how much he’s missed Ryan: just how much the other man’s care added to his life. Maybe it’s not too late to make some changes. Maybe there can be a middle ground for two such different men – because the reward is worth it.

Copyright ©2009 Clare London

Second Edition – originally published by Amber Quill Press

Cover design by Garrett Leigh at Black Jazz Design © 2016

Published by Jocular Press 2016

All Rights Reserved

This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission. This book cannot be copied in any format, sold, or otherwise transferred from your computer to another through upload to a file sharing peer to peer program, for free or for a fee. Such action is illegal and in violation of Copyright Law.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 1

The voice was high and sharp, and it wasn’t just the quality of the cheap mobile phone that was to blame. Chaz? Can you hear me? God, it’s like an electrical storm on this line. Your land line’s been cut off. Did you forget to pay like last time?

I lifted the phone a couple of inches away from my ear and sighed.

"Chaz? Chaz. Dammit. Say something, will you? I don’t even know if this thing has connected."

A smile teased the corners of my mouth. I wasn’t going to pretend I’d forgotten what a pleasure it was to hear that voice, whatever the tone, whatever the words. But I didn’t have to say so. Not yet, anyway. So, call me a tease.

Look, you want me to call them? Sort it out for you?

No! I spoke more sharply than I intended. I brought the phone back into proper earshot and sighed again, though under my breath this time. No point in being that smartarse I’d so often been accused of. "It’s fine, Ryan. I hardly used it, right? So I cancelled