Even the nicest of guys can decide to cut loose at some point, especially if he's at college and a frat brother invites him to a party. Unfortunately, that can end quite badly. Luckily for Dante ap Owen, it doesn't -- until he keeps needing to piss every few minutes and he sees blood in his urine. Another stroke of luck for him is the substitute professor, also a medical doctor he’s been crushing on, who happens to be there when he passes out in class and pushes him to come to his clinic.<br><br>But Dante and his beloved, critically ill mother are under the control of his bitter uncle, who also provides health insurance. If his uncle finds out Dante is being treated for anything, let alone what Dante fears is an STD, he's ... Dante doesn't want to think about that. So he flees the clinic before he has to make a follow-up appointment.<br><br>The good doctor shows up at his uncle's farm when phone calls do nothing. And when Dante's uncle invites the doctor to dinner and serves a meal worthy of Medea, the doctor urges Dante and his mother to leave. But will they? And will Dante realize the doctor wants him as much as he wants the doctor?

So Let Us Rejoice

“You’re a wonder,” I whispered in Alexa’s ear as I hugged her. “Would you consider marrying me?”


She gave me a broad grin, then pinched my cheek. “Aren’t you already married, you handsome devil, you?”


I was. I’d finally found the woman I’d been unconsciously searching for all my life.


I glanced toward the front of the chapel where Dante’s mother sat, wearing the rose gold mother of the groom gown embellished with beads and sequins. She was alone for the moment, although I’d join her before the ceremony began. Her brother had been invited but had written a stiffly worded response declining the opportunity to attend his nephew’s nuptials.


Dante insisted on keeping it and had it framed. He hung it on the wall in the study Micajah had given him and from time to time threw spitballs at it.


Chapter 34