What We Carry
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For twenty-five years, Nicholas Taylor was certain of who he was-and who he wasn't.
Straight. Stable. Unshakable. But all of that starts to shift the night of his younger brother's bachelor party... at a gay club.
There, under pulsing lights and champagne glitter, he sees Misty Bagg take the stage-a queen with sharp wit, aching eyes, and a smile that doesn't quite reach. Behind the sequins is Michael Cruz, a man working too many shifts just to stay afloat. Love isn't on his radar-not after what his last relationship cost him.
They weren't supposed to meet.
They weren't supposed to matter.
But something happens that night. Something neither of them can explain-or walk away from.
A slow-burn queer romance about letting go of old identities, facing the scars we hide, and discovering the kind of love that doesn't just change your life-it names it.
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