Checkmate Ever After by Lex Chase

Author:Lex Chase [Chase, Lex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63476-462-9
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

PIXEL REMAINED silent and grinning like a jackal the entire time we made our way to the Kenya set. I asked her time and again for clarification, and she said nothing. I realized what usually went down at the Kenya set in Single and Super, and suddenly stopped dead in my tracks.

“Is he going to propose?” I asked Pixel flat-out.

“I can’t tell you that. Come on.” She gently tugged my arm.

“I’m not ready for this,” I blurted out and wrung my hands. “I thought I was ready. I thought I was so ready, but I’m not ready. I don’t know if I can do this. I really think I can’t do this. He called me ‘too intense,’ you know? And that’s what I’m doing right now. I’m being too intense.” I leaned back into Pixel and clutched my head, ready to faint. “What if he grows to hate me? What if I end up hating him? What if he has some disgusting habit that I can’t get past? Like what if he picks his nose? Total deal breaker, right?”

“Garth,” Pixel growled and held out her hand. “Man the fuck up.”

And before I realized it, I did, and in twenty feet, I stood at the gaping maw of the banyan trees.

Pixel clapped me on the shoulder and bowed her head with a smile. “Just hear what he has to say, okay?” she said, then straightened. “And this is as far as I go, as they say.”

I wiped my sweating free hand on my jeans. “Okay…,” I said with a sigh before taking the long walk. The Longest Mile of Love, you know? I concentrated on keeping my breath even and just enjoying the sight of the twisting branches and the leafy canopy. The arid weather of this artificial patch of Kenya sank into me, and my forehead sheened with sweat. The paper lanterns flickered and swayed in the boughs. My mouth ran dry as I knew exactly what was going to happen. When had he had time to pick out a ring? How did he get this all planned? Had he been thinking this the whole time?

I halted again and slapped my forehead. Did I absolutely guilt-trip him into doing this? All because I asked him to in the on-call at Horace’s Hospital of Healing? I had jumped the shark by doing that. Knowing him, he would have asked first. He would have asked first, in his own time and his own way. That’s what I’d done. I had totally prodded him into doing this prematurely. I shuddered with dread. Neither of us were ready for this. We were doing it just to do it. I had to tell him. I had to tamp this down before it got wildly out of control and we couldn’t get out of it.

I tried to form what I was going to tell him as soon as I had made it to the platform. I got about four words in and couldn’t seem to find the right verb.

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