Overview

Five years isn't close to long enough to forget the love of your life.

Eric

After my mom walked in on me enjoying some benefits with my best friend, everything went wrong. She outed him to his parents. They flipped, and he vanished. I waited for months before realizing I’d never see him again. I tried to move on, to live my life, but it never quite took.

Now, after five years, he’s suddenly here and the moment I saw him, all the old feelings came rushing back.

He doesn't feel the same. I don't know if he's mad at me or at the world and I don't know how to help him.

I just wish he could see how good we’d be together.

Mike

Five years ago, I was ripped away from the love of my life. The adults in our lives were supposed to be our support system, but they failed us in the biggest way possible.

So the first thing I do once I’m out from under my parents' thumb is to find him, and the moment I see him, I know that the only thing I want is to be with him. I’m haunted by my past and I can't handle my feelings for him. He doesn’t need to know that my heart aches every time I look at him.

I don't want to keep hurting him, but I can't stay away. Encore was originally published as a serial on Kindle Vella and Radish. It is a complete MM romance with an hea. It contains trauma, off page abuse, adult language, and explicit scenes.