The Best Men

Freddie
I had it all.
A stable job that paid well, a stunning girlfriend I aimed to marry and two best friends I desperately wanted to be my ‘Best Men’ at the wedding.
But as soon as I ask them, my life changes for the worse.
My job isn’t as secure as I believed, my abusive dad makes a reappearance, and my new fiancée, Keegan, starts to look at me differently.
Worst of all, my best friends, Ryker and Liam, decline being my best men.
They shut me out and won’t tell me why.
I’m angry at them and confused, and when we see each other again, something unexpected ignites between us…
Maybe out of the ashes of the perfect life I thought I had; I can find a better one…

Ryker
It’s not easy being in love with your oblivious best friend. If you don’t believe me, you can ask my brother, Liam.
It gets even harder when they ask you to be one of two ‘Best Men’ at their wedding.
At first, I thought I could handle it; I could stand beside Freddie and watch him declare his love to his fiancée. It’s not like he hasn’t had girlfriends before, not like we haven’t seen him with them.
We’ve outlasted every one of his relationships, but marriage?
For Freddie that’s final.
That’s him unknowingly telling us for certain, we—us three, would never happen.
I deal with it the only way I know how, by partying and keeping my distance, but I can’t ignore him in the bar that night…
And when we go outside, when he’s spitting and cursing my name, I can’t stop myself from pressing against him and kissing his neck…

Liam
Maybe it should’ve been easier for me. I’m the one with the ‘boyfriend’ after all.
But my relationship is toxic, just the way I like it to distract myself from being in love with Freddie Lester.
I can’t be one of his Best Men, I can’t even be his friend anymore. It hurts too much.
But then I get the text from Ryker saying Freddie’s in the pub and not acting like himself.
I drop everything to get there, and we stumble outside, caught in a whirlwind of Freddie’s anger.
I hold Freddie back to stop him from swinging another punch at my brother, then Ryker’s pushing into him, pressing him against me.
Ryker kisses Freddie’s neck, I grind my body into Freddie’s back and Freddie…he lets out the sweetest moan I’ve ever heard…

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