Double Shot Cappuccino by Stephani Hecht
This is a “comfort zone” novella, probably like the coffee place where the story is set. Tyler was Nash’s older brother best friend and he was always there while Nash was growing up; Nash loved both his brother than Tyler, only maybe in a different way. When both Tyler than Luke decided to enlist in the Marine Corp, Nash worried for both of them, and when Luke died in a mission, Nash lost both of them. Years later he is probably mourning both losses, only that while for one there is no solution, for the other indeed solution seems to come when Tyler enter Nash’s coffee shop one day.
Just come back home to close his grandmother’s home and probably forget everything of the little town where he grew up, Tyler realizes that Nash is not someone he can easily ignore. While he was young and still living in town, Tyler had realized he was attracted by men, but he had never considered Nash: Nash was his best friend’s little brother, and btw, when Tyler left, Nash was still underage. In the years he was far from his small hometown, things didn’t get better: in the Marine, for Tyler was not possible to openly live his sexuality, and once he came back home, there was really no reason at all. Tyler is not used to externalize his feelings; he has imbedded in him the “closet” philosophy.
When he realizes Nash is grown up and an attractive man, and gay, Tyler sees no reason to not have a no strings attached fling with him; the attraction is immediate, and maybe Tyler doesn’t realize that maybe the root of it are deeper in the past of what he thinks.
Sincerely, while I can understand Tyler’s reluctance to admit his feelings for Tyler, I really didn’t like his attitude; he is ready to play the knight in shining armour, to play the hero, but the simple act to love Nash seems a hard quest. In a way Nash, with his live and let live attitude is a bigger hero than Tyler.
It’s really a “good feelings” novella, Tyler and Nash’s obstacles to love are little things, and aside from Luke’s death, that is always present but not really an heavy blanket on the mood, the two of them have it pretty easy, and happiness is really at hand reach.
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