Outing The QuarterbackLong Pass Chronicles (1)
Tara Lain
Will Ashford lives in
two closets. He meets his wealthy father’s goals as both the quarterback
for the famous SCU football team and a business major, but secretly he
attends art school and longs to live as a painter. And he's gay. But if
he can win the coveted Milton Scholarship for art, he’ll be able to
break from his father at the end of his senior year.
In a painting master class, Will meets his divergent opposite, Noah Zajack. A scarred orphan who’s slept on park benches and eaten from trash cans, Noah carefully plans his life and multiple jobs so he has money and time to go to art school. Will's problems seem like nothing compared to Noah's. Noah wants the scholarship too and may have a way to get it since the teacher of his class has designs on him, a plan Will isn't happy about.
When a gossipmonger with a popular YouTube channel finds evidence that Will is gay, the quarterback’s closet doors begin to crumble. Hounded by the press and harassed by other players, Will has to choose. Stay in the closet and keep his family’s wealth, or let the doors fall off and walk out with nothing. Nothing but Noah.
In a painting master class, Will meets his divergent opposite, Noah Zajack. A scarred orphan who’s slept on park benches and eaten from trash cans, Noah carefully plans his life and multiple jobs so he has money and time to go to art school. Will's problems seem like nothing compared to Noah's. Noah wants the scholarship too and may have a way to get it since the teacher of his class has designs on him, a plan Will isn't happy about.
When a gossipmonger with a popular YouTube channel finds evidence that Will is gay, the quarterback’s closet doors begin to crumble. Hounded by the press and harassed by other players, Will has to choose. Stay in the closet and keep his family’s wealth, or let the doors fall off and walk out with nothing. Nothing but Noah.
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“You’re
not telling me that your own parents don’t know you’re gay? No way.”
“Way. I’ve
never come out to them.”
Noah
opened his mouth, then closed it. Being alone looked better and better. “How is
that possible? Did you just decide you like guys last week or something?”
“No. I
think I pretty much knew when I was twelve.” He smiled. “Our neighbors had a
son who was about sixteen. His bedroom was across from mine. I used to peek
through the curtains and watch him dress. Watched him jerk off too. Man, he did
that a lot.” Will laughed. “I got hard every time, and I ended up beating my
meat as much as he did. One day I finally realized that he had a sister who
walked around the backyard wearing, like, nothing. I never looked at her, just
him. That’s when I got worried.”
Had Noah
ever been worried about being gay? Maybe a little. “But you date a girl. I saw
you with her hanging all over your body.”
“Yeah. For
the last couple years I’ve had sex with girls. I hoped I was bi.” He leaned his
elbows on his knees and shook his head. “It doesn’t work very well. I even had
to take Viagra once. I finally gave up and broke up with her.”
“When?”
“Today.”
“Jesus.”
He smiled,
kind of sad. “Yeah, it’s been a helluva day.”
“So are
you going to come out now?”
His golden
eyebrows drew tight above that straight nose. So damned Aryan. “I wish I could.
No, that’s a lie. I dread the whole thing. But the truth is, if I come out, the
whole team takes it in the ass. Other teams will harass me, which means my guys
will defend me. Some of them will. And they’ll get suspended for fighting.
Anyway, it’s a fucking mess trying to come out in team sports. I’ve got to wait
until after I graduate.”
Noah
frowned. “If big-time athletes like you never come out, it will never change.”
“I get
that and I hate to say this, but I’ve got enough shit in my life without
carrying the damned rainbow flag.”
Noah
sucked in his breath to call the guy a pussy. And stopped. Coming out had been
no big deal for him. Just one more weird thing about weird Noah. No one
expected anything different. Will’s life was another whole pile of bullshit.
Different but maybe not better. “So why did you come here?”
The green
eyes glanced up, then away. “To tell you I didn’t lie to you about my name
because I wanted to deceive you. I’m just so deep in lies I can’t see over the
top.”
“Why?”
“Why
what?”
“Why did
you want me to know? Why did you care?” He held his breath.
Will
frowned. “Did you just have sex with Masterson?”
What the—?
He pushed himself back on the couch. “What the fuck business is that of yours?”
He didn’t
look up. “If you’re committed, spoken for, I want to know, that’s all.”
“Nobody
speaks for me. I’m committed to no one. And I’ll have sex with whomever I
please, got it?”
Will
looked up from under his eyebrows, and this time he grinned. “I just wanted to
check to see if you were too tired.”
Noah
suppressed a snort. “What makes you think I’d want to have sex with you?” He
tried to keep his lips from turning up.
“You
kissed me, remember?”
The smile
must show by now. “What if I didn’t like it?”
“Not an
option.”
“You think
you’re that good, huh?”
Will
steepled his fingers in front of his own smile. “Yep.”
“I might
catch girl cooties from you.”
“You’ll
have to take that chance.”
Noah
cocked his head at the big, handsome quarterback. Did he dare suggest it? Hell,
the guy ate painters for breakfast. “There’s just one thing, jockoid.”
“What?”
“I like to
top.”
“Oh. My.
God.”
About The Author
Tara Lain
writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT
erotic romance novels that star her
unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was
published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 23. Hselling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara
has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an
advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and
writing craft. She lives with her soulmate husband and her soulmate dog in Laguna Beach,
California, a pretty seaside town where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity,
justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!
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