Kipp Llewellyn, the proverbial poor little rich boy, can have whatever he wants, except the one thing he wants most: his father’s love. When the opportunity arises to obtain it, Kipp jumps at the chance, even though it means breaking a date with “Ham,” the man he’s sure he’s falling in love with. However, the opportunity turns out to be an arranged marriage with his father’s biggest competitor. Even worse, Kipp discovers his proposed groom is Hyde Wyndham, the man of his dreams. Having lived in a gilded cage his entire twenty-one years, Kipp refuses to settle for anything less than love and walks away from both his father and his future husband. Hyde didn’t achieve his position in the financial world by taking no for an answer, however, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make Kipp realize he’s wanted for himself, including wooing the young man he intends to marry, prenuptial agreements be damned. He’s certain he’s succeeded, until Kipp learns something that puts an insurmountable barrier between them. Will Hyde be able to overcome Kipp’s doubts, and will Kipp realize that some things are worth the sacrifice?

Two Lips, Indifferent Red

Mix lemon pudding packages with milk and spread on top.


I’d always wanted children. As an extremely wealthy man, I knew all I had to do was snap my fingers, and within nine months—or nine months after the surrogate I selected became pregnant—I’d have a son or a daughter. I’d had my sperm tested to make sure it was viable, and I’d been pleased with the results, but I wanted a partner to help me raise that child, especially since 2015 had seen the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage. I was forty years old and gay, and while I’d had affairs, they had never been with anyone I could see a future with.


I wasn’t certain I’d ever find him, but then as I was leaving Georg’s, my friend Hunter’s interior design studio, there he was. Kipp Llewellyn. He was blue-eyed and blond, in contrast to my brown eyes and skin, and twenty years younger. In addition, it turned out he was the son of a business rival.


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