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

“Breathe, Wade,” Lance whispered and squeezed his hand. “We can do this.” 7


If anyone were to ask Lance how the wedding went, he wouldn’t have been able to answer. The last thing he remembered after telling Wade to breathe was looking into his eyes. He had a vague memory of exchanging the rings and a brief panic that Wade would notice the engraving, but Wade didn’t look at them before they slipped each one on. He knew they repeated some words. He looked at their left hands and saw they were both wearing the matching white gold bands on their ring fingers.


What he didremember? The kiss. Holy shit.Lance had never had a kiss affect him like that. Considering they were in front of fifty or more people, he guessed if they were alone and Wade kissed him like that, it would have led to hours of pleasure.


Chapter 27