The same time period is covered as in Book One, Coming To. The difference for Aiden, the light of Jim's life is that, Jim in Coming To, the first instalment of the gay bear trilogy was emotionally opening up, but for Aiden the reverse is true for most of his story. Jim assumes wrongly that Aiden is unapproachable, somehow out of reach for him. His perception of Aiden is that he has everything, youth, good looks, success and a great modelling career. If he has all of this why would he look at Jim, the one that Jim perceives as a fat hairy bloke slowly becoming a gay bear icon, as he works through his demons in a variety of ways. What Jim doesn't know is that Aiden's life is not what he supposes it to be, in fact it is obvious what Jim had picked up on when he first saw Aiden at the Bear Event, his pain and his hurt, although it is deeply hidden underneath his model and celebrity exterior.
Throughout Book Two we see Aiden lurching from abusive situation to violent encounter and back again. All may look perfect from the outside but the model and celebrity world is a den of abusers, Svengali types and those who want their pound of flesh. Aiden is trapped in his life as Jim has been in his till now. Their encounter has shaken both men, despite it being only a glance from Jim before Aiden's cronies whisked him off after he won the Mr Bear competition. It was Jim's ardent gaze that set them both off on their individual voyages of discovery, which would lead to their eventual meeting........
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