Thirty-four year old Cannon Rake, a wedding photographer for the cyber company Wedding Peeks, is not getting along well with his boss Lori Banter. When she learns through the grapevine that he’s socializing with her nemesis Patrick from Always a Groomsman, Lori decides to terminate Cannon's employment.<br><br>What isn’t there to like about Patrick Brogan? He’s handsome, Spartan-like, and runs his own wedding consultant company, which just happens to compete with Lori’s cyber startup. After Cannon dates the stud, he learns the truth behind Lori’s hatred for Patrick.<br><br>When tempers become heated and kisses sinful, Cannon starts to fall for Patrick and his little brother Jesse, who suffers from autism. But will Cannon forever be a groomsman wanting to be the groom? Or is there a Mr. Right out there for him in a world full of so many Mr. Wrongs? And is that Mr. Right Patrick Brogan?

Always a Groomsman

Jesse stood on one end of the oval table and said, “Time to sit and eat.”


And so we did, enjoying a meal together that Darlene labored over while caring for her son.


It was apparent that Jesse had autism. He slumped in his seat, unsmiling, and looked no one in the eyes. He was quiet, seemed unhappy, and hardly alert to what was going on around him at the dinner table. Conversations included the weather, bridge repair work, ripping down the Tower (an old radio station tower that was abandoned by WPTI in 1998) on the opposite end of Templeton, and recent movies at the box office. I wanted to reach out to the kid in any way that I could. My heart broke for him, and I wasn’t really sure why.


Chapter 26