This Will Hurt I

Standalone • Part I of II • Angst • Awakening • Friends to Lovers • Single Dad • Slow BurnMaybe the heart needs to break before one can put together the pieces correctly. This is Jake and Roe’s story.I used to think leaving the Marines and moving to LA was the defining moment that changed my life. I was gonna become a documentary filmmaker and see the world through my camera. Then I met Roe Finlay.Never in a million years could I have imagined...well, everything we went through. I sucked at expressing how I felt—which was emotionally stunted most of the time—but Roe seemed to get me. I became...dependent. Attached. Not in a sexual way or anything—I wasn’t gay. Far from it. Or bisexual like Roe, for that matter. No, this was different. I just wanted to be close to him. He made me laugh like no other. We were a fantastic team. We lived together. Worked together. He was my best friend.He was everything. He was my defining moment.Until he decided to commit to his f—to his girlfriend.