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him when he had to work late or run errands while the kids were sleeping.
    “Hey, Mrs. Ferguson, I have an errand I need to run. Would it be possible for you to come over and keep an eye on the kids? I know it’s late but—”
    “Not to worry, Keely. Dennis down at The Main Street Hotel told me you had a friend visiting from out of town. I expected a phone call.”
    Keely was so glad he was talking to Mrs. Ferguson on the phone so she couldn’t see his face flush with color. One thing he had learned about life in a small town—nothing was secret from anyone.
    “Yes,” Keely said, “an old friend came to visit out of the blue. He’s only here for a day or so.”
    “And you’d like to spend some time with him.”
    That answered the question in Keely’s mind if Mrs. Ferguson knew he was gay. He just wondered who else knew. Considering the size of the town, probably everyone.
    “Just for a few hours, Mrs. Ferguson.” Keely didn’t think he could handle being in Dominic’s presence longer than that. He needed to return the tape and tell Dominic that he didn’t hold him to blame, not all the way.
    And then he needed to tell Dominic good-bye.

Chapter Eight
     
    Dominic sat by his phone waiting for it to ring, hoping it would ring. He prayed it would ring. It had been several hours since he had left Keely’s house and so far there had been nothing to say Keely had even noticed he was there.
    He was still reeling from the fact that Angie and Scott were dead, especially considering most of the phone calls that Keely had made to him had come right about that time. Dominic knew that Keely had needed him, had reached out to him, and he hadn’t been there.
    He had let Keely down.
    He couldn’t blame the entire fiasco on Karen and Sophia. If he had taken the time to call Keely instead of ignoring him, he would have known what was going on. He had no right to expect Keely to give him another chance, but he sure hoped he would. Over the last couple of months Dominic had found out what life was like without Keely in it, and he didn’t like it.
    It sucked.
    He had spent the better part of the last several years creating a multimillion-dollar business, buying a designer house, and building a social network that would make Donald Trump jealous.
    And he found it meant nothing without Keely there to share it with him. Dominic just hated that this epiphany came at the expense of the man he loved.
    Dominic swung his legs up on the bed and lay back against the pillows, staring up at the ceiling. He felt like his life was in limbo. If Keely decided to ignore him and pretend he had never come to explain what had happened, the man would certainly be justified. If the man came to the hotel to tell Dominic off, he would be justified.
    And if Keely came and allowed Dominic to say he was sorry, to allow him to beg for another chance, then Dominic would thank his lucky stars and jump through whatever hoops Keely required to allow Dominic back into his life.
    He couldn’t think of much he wouldn’t give up for another chance with Keely, even his multimillion-dollar corporation. There didn’t seem to be much point in getting on the Fortune 500 list if he didn’t have anyone to share it with.
    There was a part of Dominic that actually missed the one-bedroom apartment he had shared with Keely when they first got together. It had been a humble place, clean but simple. Half the time they didn’t even have heat because they couldn’t afford it. They had cuddled together for warmth.
    Little by little, they had worked their way up from that lonely apartment to today, and yet Dominic would trade it all away to be cuddled up beside Keely right now. It was amazing to him how fate could throw a man a curveball to make him see what was important in life.
    Namely, Keely James.
    When his cell phone rang, Dominic jumped so hard he fell off the mattress, hitting the floor with a thud. He grunted and rubbed his head where he had hit it on the