Owd Stories

It started with a key. A simple, harmless gesture or so he said. Christina was just his childhood best friend. The girl who "had always been there." The one he trusted. The one he couldn't turn away. And I tried. I tried to be understanding. I tried to be secure. I tried to believe that love meant trust. But how do you trust when another woman walks into your home like she belongs there? When she knows his silences better than you do? I'm not losing him in loud, obvious ways. I'm losing him in glances. In quiet moments. In the space where I used to exist. Now, we live under the same roof. Him. Me. And the girl who was "never supposed to be a problem." But the worst part? He still calls her his best friend. And I'm starting to feel like the other woman in my own marriage.

Fuck Sebastian. Fuck Sebastian. Two meanings for those words yet I always assumed I felt like the first. There's a thin line between hatred and love. I might be the first to be stupid enough to use said line as a jumping rope, and not realize that I was switching sides. --- Sebastian Callisto. Secretive. Obedient. Kind. He's unbalanced, or so people think. Nobody knows what kind of person he is, and nobody wants to. Sebastian has been prone to bullies and teasing from his classmates ever since elementary. The reason? Because of one 'secret' that everyone knows about. He's gay. Openly gay. That's the only thing most people know about him, and they took that to advantage. Xavier De Relux. Firm. Smart. Hypocrite. One of the teasers in Sebastian's life. Following him like a dog. Not like a puppy, where it whines for attention and circles around their master's feet. No. He follows Sebastian to bite, scratch, and hurt him. Hurt him for what he is. Hurt him for what Xavier is. -- The two loathe each other will all their heart, well, that's what De Relux believed. However, when a misunderstanding makes them closer than they wanted to, said misread interaction between the two of them was stuck in one of their minds. And when he realized how obviously he was drowning in denial, he strived to release his affection to his classmate in high school--now course-mate in College, eager to make things right if it meant lowering himself onto his knees for the very first time in the 23 long years of his life. However, what if the other man happens to be already taken? Or more likely, forced to be taken against his will?

When Titus Gregory leaves behind a hollow life in Texas for a fresh start in Los Angeles, he never expects to find love with Becca, a spirited woman with a past as resilient as her heart. Their bond grows into something undeniable, even when Titus' controlling mother and manipulative ex stir old tensions with cruel schemes.