The President's Husband by Michael Murphy

Author:Michael Murphy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 9781623803896
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

QUITE EARLY on Sunday morning, David received a call from Gray. He answered it on the first ring, since he had been waiting for the call. Not only that, but David smiled broadly when he answered. “Good morning, Mr. President,” he greeted Gray, sounding extremely upbeat and cheerful. “And how are you this morning?”

Gray looked chagrined. “Imagine my surprise last night when fifty people showed up here for dinner and a party.”

“Really?” David asked, smiling. “Whatever for?”

“You might have warned me,” Gray grumbled halfheartedly.

“And you might have considered not locking me in a cell so that I had to miss my own birthday party,” David suddenly snapped at Gray. “And you might have remembered the big day and… I don’t know, maybe said something like ‘Happy Birthday!’ And besides, didn’t your crack staff have you fully briefed about what was happening?”

“All that appeared on my schedule for Saturday night was ‘personal event,’ with no additional explanation. And to be quite honest, I was fairly busy all day Saturday. All right, I’ll say it—I was overcommitted, as usual, and didn’t even have a chance to wonder about what was happening that night until it was time for me to go to the event, and I was late getting there. I didn’t have a clue what was going on.”

“Tell me about it,” David said. “I’ve known that for quite a while now.”

Gray looked down, unable to look toward David. “I’m sorry,” he said at last.

“I hope you all had a wonderful time at my birthday party. Was the food good? While you were enjoying lobster, I was eating standard hospital cuisine. I bet your food was better than mine. What about the conversations? Did people have a good time? Tell me about the cake? Did you save me a piece? I really hope you saved me a piece, although I can’t imagine that it will be any good when I’m finally sprung from hell and get back there to eat it.

“Did anyone notice that I wasn’t there? I sure hope I was missed. I hope everything was good, because it cost me a fortune for the lobsters, the cake, the champagne, and all the other parts of the evening. It all came out of my own pocket.” David knew all about the party, because he’d been in touch with most of the guests beforehand to forewarn them. He’d asked for their advice on what to do, and they’d nearly all told him not to cancel the party, but to use it as a teaching moment for his husband. David had debated long and hard about how to handle the situation before finally deciding to do as his friends advised.

Gray bowed his head, unable to look at the camera for a moment. When he finally spoke, he said softly, “Yes, you were obviously missed. I think it’s safe to say that it was a very awkward evening. People ate… and then left. No one had any cake. The servers cut it, but everyone refused to eat it.

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