OMG the day I have waited all year for. The first
book in my November series is live!!! I am so excited about this. so excited to
see what you guys think, to get you get you guys a little more aware of male
health – which, funny enough, as today marks the first day of Movember.
When everything Paul had
ever known turned upside down, suddenly he needs to man up and fight for the
love he’s always feared.
Paul’s life was set. He had
what he needed and what he was comfortable with. Then a night with one of his
regular lovers pulls him into the drama of sickness, love, and death.
In the end, Paul needs to
work a few things out first: Is he strong enough to fall in love with a man
that may need more than he’s able to give, or will he fall into old habits and
run when the relationship gets too complicated?
Note: though the month of
November 2014 all profits from this book will be donated to the Movember
charity
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You’ll learn more about this book in the month to come
as it’s for a charity event, but for now, here’s the official excerpt
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Early the next morning Paul met
Matt out the front of his apartment block. He’d been lucky to get there early
or he would have missed Matt completely.
They
walked to the doctor’s in a weird sort of silence, emotion dancing around them;
no need for words, or gratitude, or small talk. Shifting his eyes to Matt, they
shared a look and a bump or two of their shoulders as they went towards the
scariest building Paul had ever seen.
The
thing was, he wished more than anything they were not here at all. He wished
they were still both home curled up in bed together, in their morning glory
The
waiting room was like every other one Paul had ever sat in. He tried to appear
perfectly calm as he sat next to Matt, waiting. Waiting. Fucking waiting for a
name, one name in particular, but when Matt’s name was called out, he suddenly
wanted to grab him up and run like crazy. His heart didn’t want to be doing
this, all he wanted was for Matt and him to run so fast none of this could
catch up with them.
The
waiting fear was so consuming he had trouble sitting still. His legs kept
shifting nervously. He couldn’t stop looking at all the other sick people in
the room. Why were they here? What would it be like if he was in Matt's shoes?
Would he be as calm, or would he have started to rant and rave? Hell, knowing
himself, Paul would have been on his deathbed before he came to any doctor.
There
was definitely no beauty pageant happening in this doctor’s surgery. Why were
these people here, what was wrong with them? They didn’t look like they had
been run over by a truck or anything, so what was wrong with them? Were any of
them dying of cancer and you just couldn’t see it?
Leaning
back in his chair, Paul pushed the thought away while fear of the unknown
settled to the bottom of his stomach.
He
tried to pick something to read, finally settling on an old magazine that had
seen better days. Realistically, it probably held more germs than if he’d
decided to lick a handrail. He couldn’t concentrate worth shit. What was wrong
with the minute hand on the clock? It ticked by, slowly—so fucking slowly.
Then
suddenly time was up. Matt walked out.
Paul
didn’t need to ask Matt how it went with the doctor. He could see it in his face
as soon as he walked out from the back of the surgery and up to the counter to
pay. Something was definitely wrong. All Paul could see was his pale-as-shit
face. Everything inside him froze. He took a deep calming breath, stood up, and
unknowingly became Matt’s rock.
Paul
took his time crossing the room as Matt finished paying and making another
appointment. It seemed as if Matt was holding on by the skin of his teeth, and
the last thing he needed was Paul going up to him, standing there, commenting on
something he was clearly trying to hide.
They
met at the door. Paul arrived first, silently opening it for him. Matt smiled,
not saying anything, just fiddling with the papers in his hands, so many
unspoken emotions running across his shocked face.
The
door clicked shut. Paul blinked in surprise at the sounds of the world speeding
by, as if everything was still normal, still working. “So…?”
“So?”
Matt echoed, as if he didn’t know what Paul was talking about. As if Paul
wasn’t dying—pun not intended—to know what was happening, what was wrong.
“What
next?” he asked instead.
Matt
cleared his throat as he looked down at his hands, but Paul saw the sad smile
tilting the side of his mouth. He tried not to see fear in Matt’s eyes and he
defiantly clamped down his jaw and didn’t ask any questions. He couldn’t push,
mostly because he didn’t have any right to know what the doctor had said. If he
had, he would have been in the room with Matt…
“Blood
test,” he said lifting up the paper to emphasise.
“Okay,
do you need an appointment, or can we just go?”
Matt
shrugged. “Doc said if I went right away there shouldn’t be any problems.”
He was
right, of course. This early in the morning, there was only an elderly lady and
a pregnant sheila who had an overly excited toddler she was trying to keep
quiet. The thing was, no one there cared about the rowdy little girl. To him it
was distracting. It took his mind off what they were there for, or rather, what
Matt was there for. She giggled and laughed, asking silly question he could
barely understand, but couldn’t help smiling with the answers.
“Can
you come in with me?” Matt asked unexpectedly, nervously licking his lips. When
Paul got to his eyes he saw a look of pure fear staring back at him, the kind
that was normally reserved to having a spider crawl up your neck.
Paul
swallowed back a laugh. “Sure.”
Matt’s
relief was a little too much to bear. “Thanks,” he sighed, “I really hate
needles.”
“Hate?”
Paul smiled, because the description Matt was looking for was scared as all fuck.
“Yeah,”
Matt nodded, smiled. It lightened the mood for a moment even if it wasn’t
really funny, but more relief at not being left alone while he was being
stabbed with needles.
Paul
felt this weird little lift in his shoulders, a pride at being let in without having to ask.
“He
said that this should tell if it’s cancer or not,” Matt said softly after a
long pause.
“That
it? You don’t have to get cut up or nothing?”
Matt
shrugged. “Apparently a blood test will tell us if it’s cancer or not.”
“Really?”
It was asked as fact more than a question. “So that’s it then, just a blood
test?”
“Well,
for the moment. Because of the amount of swelling, and the fact that it hasn’t
quite stopped me pissing yet—oh, and I’m young. He said it could be an infection,
but…”
Yeah…, He’d never actually known anyone with prostate cancer, but
from what he’d gathered it was the go-to
disease, especially for men with a prostate the size of a plum. He hoped he was
wrong, but his imagination was already running riot, and he couldn’t shake off
the feeling that they were dealing with the worst.
“Yeah,”
Matt sighed, a little calmer from sitting beside Paul, even if the death grip
on Paul’s thigh gave him away…
They
stayed sitting liked that as the elderly woman and then the mother went in and
had their blood taken. They stayed connected that way as other people came and
went. It seemed to take forever for their turn, and yet when Matt’s name
finally got called it was as if only moments had passed.
Matt
tensed up like a plank, and Paul tried not to laugh as he took his baby in to
get his blood taken.
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