Summary
Hardwood Creek was supposed to be a temporary stop. A nowhere town with a run-down motel, quiet mornings, and nothing worth staying for. But the moment Julian Westbrook arrives, overdressed and completely out of place, he realizes this town is hiding more than it shows.
Between the dangerously charming handyman who looks at him like a problem he wants to solve, the polished town official who feels a little too controlled, and the chaos waiting behind the motel doors, Julian finds himself pulled into a world that is messy, intimate, and impossible to ignore.
He came here to endure it.
Now he’s not so sure he wants to leave.
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Entire story already available on www.patreon.com/storiesbytroy
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