One Stop Closer (Travelling Diaries #1)

One glance. One crowded metro. One man he was never supposed to want.

Elliot Navarro has spent years being the dependable one. At work, he is polished, professional, and always careful to say the right thing. Then, during one exhausting evening commute, he notices a man who is everything Elliot isn’t.

Kai Voss is tattooed, muscular, blunt, and intimidating, with ink-stained hands and a dangerous edge that should make Elliot keep his distance.

Instead, Elliot keeps looking.

And Kai notices.

Their attraction begins in the space between train stops. What starts as teasing becomes a private ritual, and soon the metro carriage becomes the only place where they can forget who they are supposed to be.

No real names.

No jobs.

No outside lives.

Whatever happens between the doors stays between them.

Until it doesn’t.

When Elliot finally discovers that his company is involved in a redevelopment project threatening Kai’s tattoo studio and the neighborhood he calls home, their secret romance becomes impossible to separate from reality.

Elliot is trapped between the career he spent years building and the man who has made him question everything about the life he thought he wanted.

Kai has spent his entire life expecting people to leave. When he discovers Elliot’s secret, the betrayal cuts deeper than the redevelopment itself.

Now Elliot must decide whether telling the truth is worth losing his career.

And Kai must decide whether the man who broke his trust deserves another chance.

Because falling in love between stops was easy.

Choosing each other when the doors open is harder.

One Stop Closer is a high-heat MM gay romance featuring a tattoo artist and software engineer, opposites attract, forced proximity, secret romance, emotional angst, intense chemistry, hurt/comfort, and an earned happily-ever-after.

The metro brought them together. Love taught them how to stay.