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You picked up on it! He absolutely was. In Just Found Heaven which is a segue after this, there are multiple POV and Max's has a flashback that happens after this here he talks to Connor so you see more of the timeline. Thanks for the input! I appreciate you ❤️

Hope you do and enjoy 😉 Rom Coms were my preference for a long time. But the 90s and 2000s kind when the douche chills were REAL on occasion ❤️ 😆

Awww upset in Max's defense is a new one and I love it! @Cane23 Did we ever think we wpuld see the day? 😆 Max is definitely affected and he will hate every moment of it. Being affected ruins his "street cred" a a philandering badass. Roman's shaking things up! They will make nice sooner than later but Roman needs to suck it up and apologize first! ❤️

Yes sir! It's all Max’s POV just like Sams was the only one in Halos. I did the multiple POV's in JFH because I thought it near a neat way to set up the rest of the series with some of the characters including Roman. Hah yep we have that saying here. Don't shit where you eat lol. Medical dramas are alllllll about the inappropriate hookups so I just poke fun at it a little bit and roll with the suspension of belief. Me personally...NEVER fraternizing with coworkers. Gets messy 🤮 Yes Janet is lol. Full on mama bear mode. She will smack him around but won't let anyone else. Romans in deep poo poo with her later on in the story. Hope the story will meet your expectations! Heart ❤️ 💙 💜

Yay! Finally new to you content ❤️-crossing fingers and toes-

I giggled at the age of consent.

I laughed throughout. I'd read the original piece, but didn't realize that there were 2 other shorts. It was a great surprise. Creative take and very well written.

Thanks ReaderPaul! I hope you check it out. Cia... THANK YOU!! BEST belated birthday present ever! ❤️

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized ... I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? -Margaret Cho YOU KNOW better. That was the consensus of the hour, enlightened reality exploding in my brain as I came hard enough to see stars, my teeth sunk into the shoulder of the man I was currently buried balls deep inside of. The disapproving angel perched on my right shoulder shook its head in exasperated indignation over the fact my scrub pants were currently twisted around my ank

Sometimes you need to lose it all to do things the right way with your second shot... For Roman Cruz, that meant spending 8 years in prison then starting over with the help of a friend to rebrand and restart as a Miami club owner with style, class and enough OCD tendencies to make a therapist sigh. To Max it means letting go of the mistakes he made in his failed romantic endeavor, to allow himself to possibly find the home in someone else that he's been missing.

Thanks so much for reading! The first four to six chapters are tough to get through emotionally but it gets better ❤️

Youre welcome! Ghost stories usually make me o.O, but I enjoyed this a lot 😀

It can be difficult to bond with characters in a short story, but this was masterfully done. Tight writing that also gave us a sense of both characters and then the twist ending. I can usually spot plot twists a mile away in books and movies/TV shows, but you totally got me! Well done.

i see things I must now read Well done everyone.

You are learning the methods to my madness 😉 I absolutely agree. Roman leaving like that would have made me throw the book if I was a reader. But like you suspected part of Max's indignation will be that he opened up to Roman a little [admittedly while drunk] so he's embarrassed and vulnerable which makes him cranky. Crankiness and pride equal sexual tension that will frequently explode. But you are correct that Max is not used to being left behind so more pissiness there. Neither is ready for a relationship for sure. Max is still mixed up about Sam[that will be let go at a pivotal point in their book so he and Roman get closer] Roman is too busy splitting his time between being a businessman and a sexy den mother to all his people. He also has that level of OCD but Max is a surgeon so he can handle that. Thanks again for your on the nose insight! ❤️

Oh my friend, I always look forward to your breakdowns and since Roman's was the one chapter you'd never read any version of I was on pins and needles 😆 I'm do glad that it read well. To all those folks [you know who i mean on the other site] who said my chapters enter too short, not sexy enough etc etc, BOOM! Exhausting mic drop!] 😆 A break is soooo needed. I think what I'm going to do going forward is to try and get at least or 7 chapters of longer stories finished before I start posting weekly so that way the lags are shorter provided my body cooperates. This was exhausting but it's done! Hehe Roman’s OCD is peeking out... Max called him out on it. It made me giggle as I wrote it. Max is flirtatious and charming and tries for shock value. Roman is matter of fact "it wasn't about nacho pride or bragging rights, just facts: water was wet, and I had a big dick. " Max throwing his towel on the floor and roman twitching. The use of napkins and coasters, etc. First person POV is always tricky with the show vs tell thing since the character is literally speaking to the reader so I wanted to show as much as I could, those little quirks. Hah...the 90s in the US were WILD with music especially club songs...I know that song well lol. It made me smile that you looked it up so you could stay within the story. I should post the Playlist for this in the prologue. They help me and sometomes people are curious. And ty! I wasn't sure about the tie. When I started the story in 2014[ yep I took that long off between writing and the revision of halos] he didn't even leave a note and then when I did before I got a better grasp of the characters and he wrote himself differently. He can be a jerk but he has good intentions....just like our favorite "closeted good guy." 😉 Max may strangle him with said tie 😆 It shall be a bit of a circus at points. This is Maxs circus and yes these are all his monkeys. I'm happy that it seems readers seem to picking up on how different their love story will be from Sam and Bens. It's a little quiet out there 0.o so I hope others will eventually chime in. For me I'm going to start reading/finish some of the stories I had started here. Break time! And Ben is always Ben. There will be a piece in AIBO that will address the weirdness between Max and Ben and Max and Sam so more loose ends from HALOS & JFH will be tied up. I'm thinking non sexy shorts for awhile and possibly a VDay story. I again wrote over the recent Coloring Outside the Lines with a chapter from JFH. How who knew but I have the 2022 version so I just need to work off that. I have the full handwritten outline somewhere. I use a very small laptop and for some reason in word sometimes sections get highlighted and if I'm not careful, they get deleted or the mouse skips and I end up typing where it shouldn't be. I probably would benefit heavily from a beta reader to avoid the eye strain and stress, but if probably have to write the entire thing and then just let them have at it rather than chapter by chapter. We will see. ❤️

Thank you! It was exhausting. Long love scenes make me tired lol..I'm looking forward to shorry pieces with little to none for awhile.lots of fade to black 😉 I warned everyone Roman was going to make a butterfly mistake. AIBO picks up about 4 or 5 months after this and Max...well Max won't be happy and there will be so much smut....it will be put off for awhile. He and Max are NOT Sam and Ben but the relationship will build with some new supporting characters and returning ones. Thanks for continually following and commenting. It always makes my heart happy ❤️

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. - Mark Twain "FUCK IT,” I said, my tone husky as I dragged Max to his feet, one hand still tangled in the gelled strands of his hair. It had to sting, but Max didn’t complain. Instead, he pressed his body up against mine, practically riding my thigh when I wedged it between his legs to provide more stability for him. My cock was completely on board with this plan. During good sex, my pain and pleasu

Thanks friend! I truly appreciate that ❤️. I love using first person POV but it can be challenging to make sure people "hear" the appropriate character. I'm glad he is hitting the mark so far. His and Maxs story will be told from his POV just like Sam and Ben’s was told by Sam, so i wanted to make sure Roman had his moment. Prepare for the o.O smutfest tomorrow lol.... And I agree. His mother...not good with the forgiveness yet. Granted, he was a gangbanger and running drugs while she tried to keep a roof over their heads as a single mom, so she's got her own stuff going on. Definitely some bitterness. As always there are reasons and some of them will come up later in AIBO, but there will be an eventual reconciliation. Max has a way of bringing folks together even though he's a mess in so many ways .

Awww I appreciate that! Hoping to get the final chapter of FH: Just Found Heaven posted by tomorrow and that'll be the official end of Sam and Bens story though they will show up again in Max-s just like other characters will. Finding Home is a series centering around different main romanfic characters in each book, but the supporting characters keep popping up again, some eventually getting more screen time than others. Once I'm done, I'm going to take a nice little break and just finish reading the stories I've started here [hint hint 😆]

Heh... yep the good guy he doesn't like to show to the world but it pops out. In his story you will see a lot of that aspect of his personality with how he interacts with patients, Addie and Emma, and of course Sam and Ben at a critical part of the book. He's just got issues. So does Roman though 😉 I'm glad Roman is reading well. First person narrative is always challenging, but especially when you're trying to "speak" for different characters. I tend to have a classic cadence to my speech, and an advanced vocabulary so I have to work at not sounding overly formal for every character. Ben tended to speak more like I do in his chapter, though Tara’s mouth.... all mine lol Roman's one of the characters I had the weakest grasp on which is why I originally wrote this piece. I couldn't "see him" when I started the book in 2014 under my old publishing house and then I stopped because one of the scenes [a shooting in his nightclub] was deemed by the publishers to be too close to reality because the book was supposed to come out in 2015 and that was when a gay Florida nightclub was shot up. So it was pulled and then life got in the way, the publishers went under and I just gave up. I'm so happy you introduced me to GA as an outlet ❤️ I get to write what I like and how I like. As far as Roman and his OCD... It's showing already isn't it? -giggles- the lysol wipes in his office, putting a napkin under his glass on top of the reception hall tablecloth, requesting beer in a bottle not a glass... requesting a coaster at the bar when he gets Max.....the high tech monitors in his office.... Won't stop him from being kinky though! lol

Roman “Dime si es verdad, me dijeron que te estás casando… Tú no sabes cómo estoy sufriendo… Esto te lo tengo que decir…. Cuéntame, tu despedida para mí fue dura… Será que te llevó a la luna… Y yo no supe hacerlo así!.... Te estaba buscando, por las calles gritando!... Esto me está matando, oh no… Te estaba buscando, por las calles gritando, Como un loco tomando… Es que yo sin ti, y tú sin mí…Dime quién puede ser feliz… Esto no me gusta… Esto no me gusta… Es que yo sin ti, y tú sin mí… Dime

Thank you! GA as a whole has been so welcoming ❤️

-waves- friend here! We.do the best we can. We can badly beta one another one day 😉 ❤️

I'm split on this and almost didn't answer but I think it needs to be said that we are mostly amateurs here and write for the love of and sake of it. Many times it's an outlet for what's going on in our lives and our heads. I TOTALLY understand that heavy grammatical errors and typos can take someone out of a story. It's happened to me and I usually try to look past them if the story quality is good. If it isn't, I just skip it. It takes alot for people to put themselves and their stories out there and just like social media, just moving on is usually best for everyone, unless you're willing to message them privately and offer help, which I believe most people wanting to be better at their craft, would be open to. I always am. That said, I WAS a professionally published author before the small private publishing house went under several years ago. And while I went to school and took creative writing classes, and read like a FIEND, and therefore have a grammar cheat sheet I try to reference, these professional publishers went completely against the classic rules of grammar, including I and Me. It drove me nuts, just as Merriam Webster changing the meaning of words because people have gotten things wrong for so many years they give in, does. As someone who learned to read when they were four and grew up on classic literature, it infuriates me. However, if "professional" editors make major mistakes, I think the average amateur authors needs to be given the benefit of the doubt, and the occasional pass, or that afore mentioned guidance. Speaking for myself now, I always write every single chapter by hand, then use voice to text to transcribe to MS Word. I then print, and do a by hand edit. Then I retranscribe and edit in MSWord again, before doing another print and last edit on paper. Then I put those final edits into Word again. Finally, I run the spell check and hope and pray I've got it all. Usually I do. Do I always? Nope. And when readers point out glaring things I thank them and fix it. Easy easy. I don't use a beta reader simply because I don't have the luxury. Having multiple sclerosis means you never know what your day is going to look like till it happens. Sometimes it's all good. Sometimes I can't stand and have the bruises to prove falls. Some days I have "claw" hands, and have to use voice to text like I am now [so hopefully typos will be caught when I reread]. Other times I'm occasionally half blind because of a flare up. I also have literal holes in my brain and spine, which means fatigue and wicked brain fog are a thing. Sometimes I can't remember what I ate that day let alone all the details in chapters I wrote weeks prior. [and my readers know I'm stupidly detail-oriented, so my mistakes bug the poop out of of me]. It all sucks donkey dong, but I do the best I can because I refuse to feel sorry for myself, or ashamed of my limitations. And I'm not going to ask someone to read through my ridiculously long chapters, then possibly not honor their time investment, because physical issues keep me from responding in a timely fashion and dragging the story out forever. I ask readers to try and look past the typos and if they can't, I get it, and I'm totally fine with them not finishing the story. We all have things we can deal with as a reader and things we can't. That said, speaking just for myself again, while having another set of eyes was a blessing for stronger writing professionally, it was also sometimes a stressor, and the literal reason I stopped writing professionally, even though another house was willing to pick me up. I write for the outlet, and to get the yapping of my characters out of my head. I'm offering the stories for free because it let's me exhale. I think a lot of people are like that. I guess my ultimate point here is that while we are all entitled to our feelings, sometimes we should be a little gentler with others as well as ourselves and not assume that people are being lazy by what may appear to be a deliberate lack of proper editing. Sometimes there are some serious issues that are a root cause. In "real life" I never bring up my illness, but in my disclaimers as a writer, I usually do, simply because I want to put it out there to people who may think my grammar and typos are from laziness, that I bust my rear, but still don't always hit the mark. I just keep trucking. Stepping off my soap box now. Thanks all.