{"product_id":"the-man-i-built-it-with-arete-resort","title":"The Man I Built It With (Arete Resort)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarc has been beside me from the beginning. The wanting came later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBusiness partner. Original financier. The man in the suit who held the line when Malcolm died and I couldn't.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe gave me Arete when I had nowhere else to put the grief. Somewhere in the years that followed, I stopped knowing how to do a day without him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe knew Malcolm before I did. College, before any of us were who we are now. He's never made that strange. He's never made it anything.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen a pre-season party. Too much to drink. A door that should have stayed closed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow I know.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe's wanted me longer than he'll say. I've wanted him longer than I'll admit. We've got time, history, and the rest of the summer before the season buries us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt should be easy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis son arrives the week after.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEighteen, restless, and sharper than either of us expected. Here for reasons of his own, and watching more closely than he should.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI keep my hands off Marc in front of him. I keep my mouth shut about what we are. I tell myself we have time to figure this out before anyone has to know.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen we go up the mountain, and the quiet I'd been keeping doesn't hold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA slow-burn M\/M romance set during summer at a mountain resort, with longtime friends and business partners, shared grief, hidden mutual pining, hurt\/comfort, complicated family dynamics, and the man who was always already there. Book 4 in the Arete Resort series. Can be read as a standalone with HEA.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912410095807,"sku":"6bb9781e-f95b-4434-8eeb-4fe35b105f97","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/eb2b706ea6a8f0a2bb799a6eea14988d.jpg?v=1785008055","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/the-man-i-built-it-with-arete-resort","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}