The American Nightmare: An Urban Thriller MM Gay Romance by Jerry Cole

Author:Jerry Cole [Cole, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-02-28T06:00:00+00:00

Bonus Novella: “Forbidden Fruits”

“Forbidden Fruits”

M/M Gay Romance

Jerry Cole

© 2018

Jerry Cole

Chapter One

Thomas Fitzroy awoke and looked around himself wearily as the faint streams of sunlight broke through above and below the window and illuminated the room. He would have felt better if as soon as he awoke he had not remembered what day today was.

It was “courtship day”, as designated by his parents. He had turned twenty-two last month, and despite standing to inherit his father's title and become Baron Fitzroy one day, he was yet unwed. They had been seeking a woman suitable to be his wife since he turned nineteen, and a whole parade of eligible, beautiful, intelligent, talented, blue-blooded young ladies had since paraded in and out of their home. Any hot-blooded heterosexual young man would have fallen head over heels with all of them and struggled to pick from the veritable bounty of buxom young beauties.

Thomas had the opposite problem. None of these women were attractive to him. In fact, no women were attractive to him. The very idea of marrying a woman, touching her, becoming one with her flesh, siring a child... He shivered and sank back under his covers, wondering if his parents would believe him if he claimed to be ill again. He had gotten through much of his start of adulthood by playing the part of the sickly young man who could not go out much. But his parents were tiring of this game and their arranged dates with these women were becoming more aggressively enforced. He sighed. He would have to get up and see them.

Looking into the mirror, he looked a mess. More so than usual. A night of tossing and turning had forced his dark hair into a thousand cowlicks, all pointing different directions. Great purple marks hung under his brown eyes. His usually slim face seemed sallow and gray. He had not been anticipating the day.

After a quick wash, he got dressed, fixed his hair back with a few swipes of wax, and applied cologne liberally all over. He had learned a short while back that many young women coughed uncomfortably and left early if you smelled as obnoxiously pungent as they did.

“Good morning, Mother,” he greeted as he walked into the front room for breakfast. She was, as always, reading. Baroness Fitzroy was a fairly round woman who had, through reading so much she was rarely exposed to daylight, retained much of her youthful looks, only developing a few expression marks in the shape of her usual disapproving scowl.

“Good morning, Thomas,” she replied, not looking up from her book. “I shall get a servant to pour the tea in but a moment. I am not quite ready yet.”

“Delilah is not yet here either,” Thomas mentioned, looking around for his younger sister.

“Oh, she will be here on time I am sure,” Baroness Fitzroy said, still reading.

Thomas sat down at the table and served himself a piece of toast to help him last until it was time for breakfast to officially begin.

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