Forever Soulmates: A Steamy Gay Romance

By Hayden Hunt

I'm not sure that love is in the cards for me. 

I used to believe I really wanted to be married. But now that I'm getting divorced from my ex-wife, I'm not sure anymore. Despite being close to her, there was no passion in our relationship. I'm starting to think I may never find someone to fall passionately in love with...

But I am really starting to like this Hunter kid. 

I've been hurt one too many times.

After a bad break up and losing my job, it's beginning to feel like my life is falling apart. So when I get an opportunity to dogsit for a recent divorcee, it feels like things might really turn around. The only problem is that this recent divorcee is funny, handsome, and incredibly charming. 

But I don't want to fall for my straight boss. I can't handle the sting of another rejection. 

This standalone gay-for-you novel comes complete with a HEA ending!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hayden Hunt
• Release date: Jun 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393150176

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Hunter

Irubbed my eyes slowly . They were dry and itchy as they usually were when I woke up. Especially when I’d overslept, which I guessed I did again today, like I had been all week. 

Hunter! a familiar voice called out to me. Are you home?

Yeah. I groaned. 

My roommate, Krista, popped up at the door of my bedroom. Her face was full of disapproval. 

You’re still in bed? Hunter, it’s 2pm!

I know, I know. I sat up. 

She sighed. You can’t keep doing this, Hunter. I know your life is kind of depressing right now…

Kind of? I cut her off, eyebrows raised.

Okay, fine, very depressing. She rolled her eyes. But you can’t just give up on life and sit in bed all day! 

Krista, it’s been two weeks. Can you cut me some slack?

No! I definitely can’t! If I don’t push you, who’s going to?

She wasn’t wrong. Krista was the only voice of reason in my life. She wasn’t my only friend; I had quite a few other friends I hung out with, but they were just friends I did shit with. Went to bars, clubs, random festivals. But they weren’t the kind of friends who had a vested interest in my future or anything. And I was no longer in contact with my parents, so they weren’t around to push me, either. 

Okay, fine, I told her. You know what? I’m going to look up jobs right now. How about that?

Fantastic! That sounds great. She gave a little huff and then went into the kitchen. 

Krista always gave me a lot of shit, but I loved her for it. I needed someone like that in my life. I wasn’t sure how I’d get on without a push from her, especially at times like this. 

A month ago, I felt like I had everything going for me. I was finally moving in the right direction in my life. At age 25, I felt like it was finally time to take my life seriously. I cut out the bar hopping and the weekend partying and I began to settle down. 

I had a good job. I was a nanny for a pretty wealthy family. Every day from nine to five, I watched their only child, four-year-old Brianna, and their pets. And because Brianna was a total sweetheart, it was a great job with awesome income. I had more than enough money to pay my rent and bills here with Krista and save for the future. 

I also had a lovely boyfriend, Blaine, who I’d been with about a year. I was sure that I was going to marry that boy. It felt like everything was falling into place for me. 

Then Brianna’s parents both got laid off from the company they worked for. They were forced to find other jobs which, unfortunately, took them to the other side of the state. So I lost my job. 

And that sucked, because it was hard to find work as a male nanny. Especially in a city like this, where there were tons of people looking for jobs. 

But whatever, it sucked, but it wasn’t the end of the world. I had good savings to tide me over until I found my next job, which I was determined to do ASAP. I still had Krista and Blaine, after all. They were both my rocks. 

Until Blaine left his phone at my house one night, and the texts I received indicated he wasn’t exactly being faithful to me. 

In a span of two weeks, I lost the best job I ever had and the best relationship I ever had. My super comfortable, happy life got flipped right over. Now everything felt like a mess. 

I had never taken a break up so hard before, but I really thought Blaine was the one. He was everything I wanted, he had his shit together, he was a good guy. Or so I thought. 

I also really hurt because I’d never been cheated on before. That stung a lot. A relationship ending sucked, but a relationship ending because the person you trusted most in the world betrayed you? That was a lot worse. 

I didn’t know how to move on from that. How could you just forget about the fact that you’d been seriously hurt and move forward? How would I meet someone else, like them, begin to trust them, and not worry about getting burned? 

I was feeling a little hopeless. I’d admit, it wasn’t very mature, but a part of me wanted to say fuck it. Forget growing up, forget maturing, just go back to partying and not worrying about my future. Because the future I had planned had fallen to pieces. 

But I wasn’t going to give in to that. I was proud of myself for moving on from my old lifestyle and I didn’t want to feel like a disappointment once again. Plus, fuck Blaine, I wasn’t going to let him take away all the progress I’d made. 

My laptop was sitting on the floor next to my bed. I grabbed it and pulled it onto my chest. I may have been determined not to give up, but I was still too lazy and too depressed to get out of bed. 

I logged back onto the old nannying website I used before I got hired by Brianna’s parents. It wasn’t a nannying site specifically; it was just a site that set up people with different home care jobs. Nannyies, house sitters, care givers, drivers for people who couldn’t drive on their own. People posted personal ads and workers posted profiles for people to sift through. 

I hadn’t logged in since the break up, so there were quite a few ads for me to look through. Unfortunately, even with a bigger selection to go through, it didn’t seem that I fit most applications, which requested a female sitter. I applied to a few of the general posts, the ones made by parents too lazy to actually list their specifications, but I never got much of a reaction from those ads. 

I was about to close the website and make myself some cereal for my late afternoon lunch when something caught my eye. It was an ad, but I didn’t see it at first glance because it wasn't specifically under the childcare ads. It was in the general section. Someone was looking for a dog sitter. 

Now, while dog sitting was obviously much easier than childcare, I never looked through those ads because generally they paid pretty crap. People would offer five dollars an hour to watch their dog. Which worked for a lot of people because they watched multiple dogs at once and that money added up quick. 

But this guy was actually offering 15-20 dollars an hour to watch just one dog. This was absolutely unheard of. It was probably a scam, but I was a sucker so I clicked, anyway. 

Looking for responsible dog sitter willing to watch my dog at my home from 9-5 weekdays. I will be doing a background check on any applicants. Apply today to set up an interview. 

Well, the short description only added to the scam factor. But what was the harm in applying? This website actually made applying to new jobs really easy. They kept your application as a file and all you had to do was click one button on the ad to send it out. 

I did exactly that, deciding not to get my hopes up. If this was a real ad, then there would be plenty of other applicants who ssaw this as a cushy job and went for it. I wasn’t going to be the one chosen when I didn’t even have a background in pet sitting. 

But it likely wasn’t a real ad. I was probably going to get some scammy response about wanting to pay me for the first month in advance and they need to wire money into my account and blah, blah. 

I shut my laptop and went on with my day, hoping Krista would be satisfied with me for applying to a few positions. Hopefully, that would be enough to keep her mostly off my back the rest of the night. 

But to my disappointment, she actually ended up going to one of her girlfriend’s houses to help her study. I knew she’d likely stay the night there, as she and her friends usually cracked open a bottle of wine or two when they hung out and she was thankfully responsible enough not to drink and drive. 

Unfortunately, this meant I had to spend the night alone in the apartment. I fucking hated nights like this. I couldn’t cope with being alone. 

I know a break up wasn’t the end of the world. There were definitely much worse things to be upset about in the grand scheme of things. But it wasn’t easy to deal with the loneliness. 

I spent the rest of my night a depressed mess, eating dry cereal and popcorn on my couch while I watched a bunch of sappy movies. It was not the healthiest way to deal with things, but I couldn’t think of much else to do at this point. 

I really did need a job. That was what most people did, right? Work through a break up? Start working out, maybe? I needed to throw myself into anything that could better me as a

Reviews for Forever Soulmates

[Kasey Brown · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It's a pretty quick read. They get together really quick and have their drama soon enough. Main issue? Not steamy. There's one scene where one use a nanny cam to get off in front of the other who is working lat and a one-sided bj. That's it.