His Online Lover

Gordon Hayes has been in love with his best friend for three years. Three years of gym sessions, shoulder slaps, and watching Simon chase women who aren't him. Simon is straight. Aggressively, obliviously, painfully straight. And Gordon has never told anyone he's gay.
Then Simon won't shut up about a girl he met in a VR game-full neural immersion, every sensation real. She's funny, fearless, and gets him like nobody else. He's falling hard.
The girl is Gordon.
Behind a female avatar, Gordon finally has everything he wanted: Simon's attention, Simon's vulnerability, Simon's heart. The only cost is that none of it belongs to the man Simon actually knows. But full immersion means full sensation, and when Simon starts pushing for more-private servers, no restrictions, a relationship that feels realer than anything Gordon's experienced-the line between fantasy and deception begins to blur.
Then the game stops letting them leave.
Trapped in a deadly tournament with no logout and only one way out, Gordon must fight beside the man he's deceiving-knowing that survival means facing a truth that could destroy them both. In the real world, he was invisible. In here, he's everything Simon wants.
But every lie has an expiration date.