Author: Leta
Blake & Alice Griffiths
Title: Will & Patrick Meet the Family
Series
Title and Number: Wake Up Married, Episode 2
Publisher: Leta
Blake Books
Release
Date: November 10, 2015
Genre: Romantic Comedy M/M Romance
Tags: gay, woke up married, tropes, rom-com, mafia,
forced marriage, disabled heroes
Heat
Level (1 being no sexual content, 5
being erotica): 2 for this Episode, 5 for entire serial
Pairing: M/M
Length: 32,000
words
Book Blurb
Follow
Will & Patrick as they cope with the fallout from their Vegas wedding in
this second installment of the romantic-comedy serial, Wake Up Married, by best-selling author Leta Blake
and newcomer Alice Griffiths!
Meeting the family is challenging for every new couple. But for Will and
Patrick, the awkward family moments only grow more hilarious—and painful—when
they must hide the truth of their predicament from the people they care about
most.
Throw in the sexual tension flaring between them, uncomfortable run ins with
Will’s all-too-recent ex-boyfriend, an overprotective mobster father, and a
mafia spy tailing them around Healing, South Dakota, and you’ve got a recipe
for madcap laughs and surprisingly heartwarming feels.
Episode 2 of 6 in the Wake
Up Married serial.
Excerpt
Keying open the
door to their hotel room, Will tries to fake some cheer. “Honey, I’m home! And
I brought dinner!” He stops and grips the bags more firmly as his cock rushes
with a sudden influx of blood.
“Just put it
over there.” Patrick’s ass is in the air, his hands flat on the floor, and he’s
wearing nothing but his black boxer-brief underwear. “I’ll eat it when I’m
done.”
Will stares as
Patrick swivels, his body moving fluidly and his legs flexing in strong, limber
movements.
“What are you
doing?”
“This is
downward dog. And this—” Patrick moves down with careful, slow strength. “Is
plank position.” The muscles in
his arms, back, and thighs are like bundles of wires, and Will’s mouth goes
dry, remembering clearly how they felt under his hands.
“Looks hard.”
Patrick doesn’t
answer. Will turns to put the food on the table, because if he keeps watching,
something else is going to be hard too.
He clears his
throat, glancing over his shoulder at the flexing muscles in Patrick’s back.
“When we met, I wouldn’t have pegged you as a yoga kind of guy.”
Patrick grunts.
He’s in a position now that Will can’t even imagine twisting himself into.
“I mean, you
don’t seem like an ‘om’ type.”
“Yoga, and
meditation for that matter, are legitimate, effective, and scientifically
proven means to an end: physical health and reduction of mental stress. In
other words, it helps keep me sane.” Patrick moves into an upright position,
sweeps his arms over his head, and brings them back to a prayerful place at his
chest. “Sanity is something you could stand to try. And none of that spiritual
mumbo jumbo has anything to do with it.”
“So says the
guy who believes in astrology.”
“Sure, be a
Libra about it.”
Will feels heat
in his cheeks. “The yoga doesn’t seem to hurt as far as keeping the rest of you
in shape either.”
Patrick’s lips
turn up into a smirk.
Will clears his
throat, turning to the bags of food. He keeps his back to Patrick as he unpacks
the takeout packages onto the small dining table. “So, do you want the gyros or
the mac ‘n’ joes, because I can go either way.”
Patrick’s
breath is tingly in Will’s ear and his body heat warm along Will’s back. “I go
both ways too. It’s your call.” He reaches around and plucks up one of the
Styrofoam boxes without looking inside.
Will swallows
and gestures at the box still on the table. “This will be fine.”
He doesn’t know
for sure which it is, but it will be
fine, so long as his dick stops acting like a traitor and his mind stops
supplying him with images of Patrick bent over, taking Will’s fingers into his
tight, hot—God!
He shakes
himself.
“Mmm, gyros,”
Patrick murmurs from his perch on the bed. “So good.”
Will’s eyes
flutter closed as he sits at the table and spreads a napkin over his crotch. No
matter how good Patrick looks almost naked, they aren’t doing that again. It
would be wrong. Because Will loves Ryan.
Who
are you trying to convince?
He sighs and
begins to eat. Mac ‘n’ joe is always tasty. Though at the moment it seems hard
to choke down.
Author
Bios
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.
You can find out more about her by following her
online:
On the web: http://letablake.wordpress.com/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/letablake
On
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LetaBlake
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.
You can find out more about her
by following her online:
On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Alice_Author
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alice.griffiths.7169
Review of Will and Patrick Meet the Parents
Part two of this serial picks up right where we left off. Will and Patrick are still married but now they are venturing home to see if Will's grandma can help them out of this marriage. You see there is more on the line than just two people married who don't know each other, yes Will's entire family trust is now dependent on him remaining married. Yes, it seems Will's paternal grandfather put a clause in the trust that no divorces are to be allowed or all the money reverts back to the family, the crime family. Will has plans of doing good with this money so he is desperate to find a way to get out of this marriage with his money. Patrick, well he is a self-absorbed doctor who could careless either way - he just wants his life back.
4 Stars to Episode 2 of this Saga.. Lets see what the authors will bring us next!!
*Review copy provided by author in exchange for an honest review. Reviewed by JLoves2Read from Alpha Book Club and Gay Book Reviews.
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