Will
& Patrick Meet the Mob by Leta Blake & Alice Griffiths
(Wake
Up Married ep.5)
Published
29th of February 2016 by Leta Blake Books
42K
words ǀ heat 5
Contemporary
Romantic Comedy
Follow
Will & Patrick in this fifth installment of the romantic-comedy serial,
Wake Up Married, by best-selling author Leta Blake and newcomer Alice
Griffiths!
Patrick
has finally accepted that he's in love with Will, but his newfound
determination to do something about that runs up against his father-in-law's
mobster plans. Though just what those plans are have as yet to be determined.
As far as Will and Patrick can tell, they consist of blowing through town,
wreaking small havoc, and turning the Patterson family's lives on end.
Will
must face the truth about his family before he can fully come to terms with his
feelings for Patrick. And Patrick has to decide if this whackadoodle world is
something he truly wants to be part of forever.
Episode 5 of 6 in the Wake Up
Married serial.
LINKS
Others in Series
Will
& Patrick…
Wake
Up Married, Meet the Family, Do the Holidays, Flight Their Feelings & Happy
Endings
Excerpt
The
next morning, Will’s romantic musings feel like the product of overwrought
exhaustion when Patrick wakes up cranky as a cat dunked in water.
“Turn
off the alarm,” he snarls. “Make it stop.” Then, sitting up and glaring at Will
like he’s going to kill him with the power of his mind, he demands, “Did you
test yet? Did you eat? What’s your BG number?”
Will’s
not even out of bed. Only fifteen seconds ago he’d had one hundred and seventy
pounds of Patrick spread out on top of him. Of course he hasn’t tested yet. “I
just woke up.”
“Don’t
make me test you myself.” Patrick flings back the covers and stalks to the
bathroom in his underwear. Will rolls his eyes but grabs his kit and quickly
tests. Over the sound of piss hitting water, Patrick calls out, “Well? What’s
the number?”
“Ninety-eight.
Calm your tits.”
Patrick
comes out, arms crossed over his chest and his hair sticking up everywhere.
“Calm my tits? Calm your tits.”
Will
indicates his nipples. “What? Check ’em out. Not even a little bit pointy.”
Patrick
narrows his gaze but a reluctant smirk tweaks up the corner of his mouth.
“Let
me guess.” Will laughs. “You know how to change that.” The knot of worry
loosens in his chest. “Maybe later. I have to eat first.”
While
they wait for room service, they shower and shave, and Will endures Patrick
making a solid pitch for him to consider a Continuous Glucose Monitoring
System.
“I’ll
ask Dr. Anastasia about it,” Will compromises.
“And
a pump.”
“Don’t
push your luck.”
They
throw on robes to greet Perry and his cart of warm, delicious-smelling goodies.
Conversation is cut dead at that point as Patrick devours his bacon, muffins,
doughnuts, and strawberries with fresh cream. Will’s healthier breakfast of
cottage cheese, whole-wheat toast, and a small slice of quiche Lorraine isn’t
nearly as exciting, but he doesn’t know how Patrick stays so slim eating like
he does. If he tried it, he’d be the size of a house.
Once
they finish breakfast, Will broaches the topic. “We’re going to need to talk
about my dad eventually.”
“What
happened to pretending he’s dead?”
“Unfortunately,
he’s not.”
“Point.”
“And
he’s staying in this building, so we’re bound to run into him sooner rather
than later.”
“Better
point.”
Will
lets a wry grin spread on his lips. “But I’m not going to just sit back and let
him run the show this time. I need find out why he’s in town and then get him
to leave again. As soon as possible.” He stands up and brings the chess set
over to the table, clearing away their plates. “If we can play ahead of his
game, we can at least capture his queen. And then maybe even his king.
Especially since he won’t be expecting us to be playing at all.”
“If
by queen you’re referring to Kimberly, I don’t know about that. She’s a
slippery one.”
“You
think Tony’s back because of my mother?”
“Historically,
her milkshake has brought him to the yard.”
Will
sighs as he sets up the board. “She’s only been dating Jason a few weeks. Tony
usually waits for her to get serious before he drops in to ruin her chance at
happiness.”
“Maybe
Jason proposed.”
“That’d
be on The Hurting Times forums ten minutes after it happened. Have you seen it
there?”
“Nope.”
“And
Caitlin would have called threatening to jump off a bridge or shave her head or
something drastic in protest.”
“So
he hasn’t put a ring on it yet.”
Will
moves his pawn forward. “It’s still a starting place.”
Patrick
shoves one of his pawns out to an empty square. “Before surgery, I have to know
what I’m dealing with. I can’t just cut into someone’s noggin without knowing
if I’m going in to repair damage or to cut out a tumor. Same here. We need more
information. What’s your dad’s sign?”
Will’s
lips flatten. “Seriously?”
Patrick
lifts his brows.
“Sagittarius.”
“I
knew it!” Patrick shakes his head. “Never trust a Sagittarius.”
Will
sighs and ignores this. “Even though the award ceremony isn’t until March, word
is getting around now that I won the Healing Hero Award. I hope to God he’s not
planning to stick around for that.”
“A
congratulatory phone call from Mobster Daddy would have sufficed.”
Will
moves a pawn in front of the right bishop. “You’ve been slapped with that
stupid malpractice suit. That might have raised his hackles too, if he’s not
sure of your intentions toward me.”
“I
have zero honorable intentions toward you. So, he’d be onto something there.”
Will
snorts. “You made an honest man of me.”
“For
now.”
“Yeah.”
Will smiles softly as gentle warmth blooms in his chest. “For now.” He bites
his lip. “Do you think sex will be even dirtier once we’re divorced?”
Patrick
looks up from contemplating the chessboard. “Are you planning on sleeping with
me after we’re divorced?”
Will’s
ears burn. “Would we have to stop?”
Patrick
swallows, his blue eyes shading darker. “Not unless we want to stop.”
Heat
zings in the air between them. Will clears his throat. “That’s a long time from
now. Who knows when we’ll even have to think about it? You’ll probably be tired
of sleeping with me by the time a loophole opens up for us.”
“I’ll
never get tired of fucking you.”
Patrick
sounds so certain that Will’s dick stirs and he has to look away, focusing his
attention back on the chessboard. He’s not sure whose move it is now. “Anyway,
there are plenty of reasons for Tony to make the trip from Minneapolis. I’m
surprised I didn’t see it coming.”
GIVEAWAY
Author(s)
Leta Blake
Author
of the bestselling book Smoky Mountain Dreams and the fan favorite Training
Season, Leta Blake's educational and professional background is in psychology
and finance, respectively. However, her passion has always been for writing.
She enjoys crafting romance stories and exploring the psyches of made up
people. At home in the Southern U.S., Leta works hard at achieving balance
between her day job, her writing, and her family.
Alice Griffiths
A
long-time reader of romance novels, Alice Griffiths finally took the plunge
into writing, teaming up with best-selling author Leta Blake for the 'Woke up
Married' serialized comedy. A lover of tropes, Alice enjoys mining old ideas
and putting a fresh, funny spin on them. Formerly working in the newspaper
industry, Alice is now an art curator. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
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