Desires' Pride E-Book

Tempeste O'Riley

• Herausgeber: Dreamspinner Press
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 30

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

A Companion to Desires' Guardian When Chase Manning wakes up on the first morning of PrideFest, the last thing he expects to find is his lover and life partner, Rhys Sayer, on bended knee. But the news that marriage has been legalized in the state is a game changer for both of them. After a mad dash to the courts, all they want is to find their friends at PrideFest to celebrate. However, what happens when they arrive will bond them together forever—if their friends don't have a collective meltdown about their sudden disappearance first.

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Desires’ Pride

By Tempeste O'Riley

A Companion to Desires’ Guardian

When Chase Manning wakes up on the first morning of PrideFest, the last thing he expects to find is his lover and life partner, Rhys Sayer, on bended knee. But the news that marriage has been legalized in the state is a game changer for both of them.

After a mad dash to the courts, all they want is to find their friends at PrideFest to celebrate. However, what happens when they arrive will bond them together forever—if their friends don’t have a collective meltdown about their sudden disappearance first.

For all those whose hearts have desperately hoped for and waited for love. Love Wins!

Author’s Note

This story takes place on June 6, 2015—the day Love won in Wisconsin.

Chapter One

RHYS CHECKED his smartphone, again, as he scanned the paperwork currently on his desk. He’d locked himself in to make sure no one caught him making preparations for a wedding he wasn’t even sure would happen. Though he hoped the state would say yes. And that Chase would say yes. The bigger concern was the great state of Wisconsin, honestly.

Waiting to see if the Supreme Court would decide in favor of gay marriage was driving Rhys crazy. Of course, he hated the term “gay marriage.” There was no such thing as gay marriage, just marriage. The gender of one’s lover shouldn’t matter. But it did in so many states, including Wisconsin, sadly.

Back in December, when Chase and Rhys had exchanged rings on Christmas Eve, surrounded by their friends, Rhys hadn’t thought Wisconsin would ever grant marriage equality. He didn’t want to be married somewhere else and only have a domestic partnership where they actually lived, like James and Seth had. But now…. He checked the updates again, hoping his preparations would count for something.

Social Security cards? Check. Proof of residency? Check. Birth certificates? Damn! Yes and no. The official copy of Chase’s still hadn’t arrived. Rhys knew that both Milwaukee and Madison were geared up at the courthouse, expecting the judge to rule in favor of marriage for everyone. Most of the people he’d spoken to also thought the ruling would come the next day—Friday, the first day of PrideFest in Milwaukee. The governor was notorious for opposing GLBT rights, so most believed he would fight the court if the Supreme Court judge ruled the way Rhys hoped. If the final decision came down the next day, Rhys was determined to be ready. He was going to make his and Chase’s relationship legal! He also planned to make sure Chase was listed on everything he could be, including Rhys’s patient info at the veterans’ hospital—just in case anything ever happened to him—but first, he needed the judge to rule on the side of love.

Dammit!

It was almost the end of the day, and he still didn’t have Chase’s birth certificate. He’d spent all day jumping at every sound outside the front door, waiting for the courier to deliver the one piece of paper he still needed.

Knowing there was a huge chance of either Mark, his business partner, or Chase, his life partner, stopping by, Rhys collected the small pile of papers and put them into the plastic manila-style envelope on his desk and slipped it back into the top right drawer. Rhys then got up and unlocked his office door, glad no one had knocked while he was fretting.