But…
‘Like that's gonna happen,’ he thought with a silent huff. Arden would never ask Kade to hold him. Even if it was only a casual fling he wanted, Arden had other avenues for that.
As he followed the overly cautious man inside, Kade couldn't help but wonder in annoyance, why were the timings in his life so off?
He had just given up an old goal to start a new one—a better one, even—but now this. This temptation. This welling desire to throw every bit of his progress away and selfishly claim a person by any means at his disposal.
Luckily for Kade, he was still rational enough to recognize that he couldn't do that to himself, and neither could he do that to Arden.
The man deserved someone who wasn't a complete failure. And if Kade gave up on his current goals, he would become exactly
