Wade Dwyer's life is turned upside down when his father dies and he learns he must marry or he and his siblings will lose the ranch. One last jab of the knife from his father. On top of that, his father's only friend knows about the stipulation and is determined to own the property by any means necessary.<br><br>He's facing the very real possibility of being the reason his family loses their home when his brother's best friend, Lance Matthews, offers to walk down the aisle with him. A faux marriage to the man he's loved for years is a torture he isn't sure he can endure.<br><br>Can he keep the ranch ... and the man of his dreams, too?

The Twisted Oak

Lance smiled back, then spied the bottle on the floor behind him. “Shit. Are you bombed?”


Wade shook his head, but the words wouldn’t form.


“Casanova, in there—” he thumbed behind him “—needs some private time to talk with Allyson.” Lance rolled his eyes, which made Wade hoot with laughter. “Can I hang out for a little while?”


Wade stepped back and gaped when Lance entered and closed the door behind him.


Wade glanced around. “What do you want to do? Watch a movie?”


“What do youwant to do?” Lance whispered, moving into his space.


Wade’s heart raced at the close proximity and he was already feeling warm and loose, so he let down his guard. “Like the ocean…”


“Your eyes are like the ocean. Blue and green and then blue again. Like aquamarine.”


“Yeah. I looked up your eyes on Google. Well, I mean, the color. Of your eyes.” The alcohol had him tripping over his words.


Chapter 17