All the Time We Didn’t Have

MM Long-Distance Romance
by Jace Wilder

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Pairing: MM
Heat: Inferno
Tropes: Long Distance, Slow Burn, Opposites Attract, Control/Surrender, Competence Kink, Touch Starved, Grumpy/Sunshine, He Falls First

He was 1,200 miles away. He was also the closest anyone had ever gotten.

Arlo Hayes doesn’t do people. A remote software engineer in Rochester, he’s built his life small on purpose — one apartment, one routine, one carefully maintained silence that keeps the world at a safe distance. He eats standing up. He alphabetizes everything. He hasn’t been touched in two years, and he tells himself that’s a choice.

Leo Vance doesn’t do staying. A travel photographer who lives out of a suitcase, he’s warm, magnetic, and constitutionally incapable of being in one place long enough for anyone to notice he’s lonely. He charms every room he walks into and leaves before anyone can ask him to stay.

When a shared freelance project forces them onto a video call, the chemistry is immediate, undeniable, and completely inconvenient. What starts as work banter becomes late-night texts. Then phone calls that stretch past midnight. Then a conversation that crosses every line — and suddenly they’re falling for each other across 4,000 miles, with nothing between them but screens and the devastating discovery that the person you want most is the one you can’t touch.

The digital intimacy builds until it can’t be contained. When Leo finally flies to Rochester, the collision is everything they imagined and nothing they’re prepared for. But wanting someone and building a life with them are different problems — and when distance, careers, and their deepest wounds collide, they’ll have to decide whether love built through a screen can survive the messy, terrifying reality of being in the same room.

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Long-distance romance with real emotional stakes. Digital intimacy — sexting, phone sex, and video calls that escalate. Opposites attract: controlled introvert x restless extrovert. A quiet, dominant top who takes you apart with his voice. “I’m already in love with you and I haven’t said it yet” energy. Grumpy/sunshine with genuine emotional depth. Competence kink (his project call voice is a WEAPON). Touch starved hero who melts the first time he’s held. A 1,847-mile drive across the country for love. Scorching heat that escalates from screens to skin. A guaranteed HEA earned across every mile.

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All the Time We Didn’t Have is a 58,000-word high-heat MM long-distance romance featuring a controlled software engineer, a restless photographer, digital intimacy that detonates into real-world passion, a blue door that means everything, and a love story built one call at a time. Standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.

Content Warning: This book contains explicit MM sexual content, phone sex, video sex, graphic in-person intimate scenes, control/surrender dynamics, praise and command elements, emotional manipulation recovery themes (past relationship), career-related separation anxiety, and intense emotional vulnerability. Intended for readers 18+ only.

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“Blue Door” — A scene too hot for Amazon.

One year later. Leo returns from Portugal with a framed photograph of the original Lisbon blue door — re-shot, same angle, same light. But this time, the door is open. What happens next starts in the kitchen, moves to the couch, and ends in the tilted bed. Anniversary sex with twelve months of mastery behind it. Arlo on his knees. Leo losing his mind. The kind of scene that breaks furniture and rewrites vows.

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