Total pages in book: 75
Estimated words: 73002 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73002 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Wells’s eyes started to fill with tears, and Matty came undone. He wanted to touch him, but he wouldn’t do it without his permission. Without his affirmation of love.
Damn it. He knew Wells still loved him.
Didn’t he?
He wasn’t sure what was going on beside him, and Matty heard Jensen say something, but then Alex was yelling once more.
“Do what? You better be kicking him out! This is insane. Why are you just standing there? You don’t love him, do you? What kind of best friends are you? This dude hurt him. Kick him out!”
Matty wasn’t sure what Wells saw in this dude, but he was beginning to hate him even more even as Vaughn yelled, “We’re the kind of best friends who want the best for our brother. Let him think!”
Alex went to argue, but then a deep and commanding voice filled the room, “Son, that’s enough. You need to say something.”
It was Wells’s father.
Wells’s eyes widened as he tore them from Matty to his father. He was conflicted; it was all over his face, and it was killing Matty. Had he really hurt this guy that much? He was a fucking cunt. How dare he hurt someone so beautiful, so perfect. Man, he’d really fucked him over.
But then Wells looked back at him. Wells’s eyes focused on Matty’s as he swallowed hard, a lone tear rolling down his chiseled face. “Your family?”
Just two words.
Two words that held the weight of the world.
Commotion broke out, but Matty nodded firmly, hoping Wells could see he meant every single word that was about to leave his mouth. “I’m telling them. Even if you don’t want me, I’m telling them. I promise. I just want you by my side when I do it, because I love… I love you so much, Wells, please.”
Matty hadn’t even realized that was the truth until that moment. He was tired of not being who he was. He wanted to live life as a gay man; he didn’t want to hide anymore. He just wanted Wells beside him while he did it. It wouldn’t be easy, but if he had the love of his life by his side, it could be.
Wells paused, his lips trembling. “Why now?”
Alex yelled something, but Matty wasn’t done. “I wanted to tell you earlier, but I was scared. I’m still fucking scared, but I couldn’t let you do this without you knowing that you changed my life. You make me want to be a good man, and I know I can do it without you, but I don’t want to. You’ve made me want to fix things with my sister because of how much you love yours. I want to tell my brothers and my parents because I want to be myself. I want to be me instead of lying all the time. But, Wells, I want you beside me, with me, loving me. Please, say you will. Take me back, let me love you as you always loved me because, Wells, you own my heart. The whole damn thing and you know I don’t do this kind of thing, but I can’t stand by and watch you marry this guy. I can’t.”
When another tear rolled down Wells’s face, Matty’s own started to fall, but then Wells’s groom was yelling some more. “Then leave!”
The thing was, Matty would never leave Wells’s side again. Without looking at the guy, and with his voice strong and true, Matty said, “I can’t. I’m sorry, Alex, I am. But I love him.”
“Wells, tell him to go!”
It was his chance. Wells could tell Matty to hit the road, and as much as it would kill Matty, he knew Wells had that right. Holding his breath, Matty watched as Wells swallowed hard and looked back at Alex before saying, “I’m sorry, but my heart beats for this man.”
Matty couldn’t wait a moment longer.
He wrapped his arms around Wells, and he did the same as their mouths crashed together with heated eagerness.
Now that Matty had Wells back, he’d never do anything to lose him again.
Six
For the first time in Wells’s life, some people, well, actually just Alex, would call him a selfish man.
But he didn’t care.
Because he would completely agree, even if Alex would never understand. Wells hadn’t talked about Matty with Alex. He couldn’t. It was too hard, and he knew Alex would throw a fit. But now it didn’t matter. After spending nine months without the man he was now holding in his arms, it was easy to say he had been empty. He had tried to fill that emptiness with friends and family, but he had ached. So Wells jumped headfirst into a relationship with a man he had no business being with. It was easy sex—easy, mind-numbing sex that he’d decided kept him from thinking of Matty. But it was a lie. Even when Wells was with Alex, he thought of Matty.