Chapter 2 of “Dearly Beloved” has posted!

 

 

Powerful but lonely King Matthias believes his love for his beautiful, kind-hearted arranged fiancé Brian will always be unrequited, but he still risks everything to protect him from those who want to derail the match.

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Matthias tried to imagine it— couldn’t help but imagine it— coming out into the garden after a long day and seeing Brian like this, circlet abandoned somewhere, running about with the attendants and staff. Maybe teaching children how to aim their kicks. Maybe even their own children, heirs they’d adopted, climbing on Brian’s broad shoulders.

It was far too soon to be having such thoughts. Matthias was rather appalled at himself, and a bit surprised. He’d expected this week to either present a solution to his loneliness or make him glad for his solitude, and heavy odds lay with the second. Instead, all of this was making him realize how lonely he actually was. Matthias was friendly with his attendants and staff, but not on the level Brian was. Not where the servants would hand him a baby or include him in their gossip. Matthias was suddenly longing not just for a spouse but a whole family.

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My previous original romance serials are Tollense (M/M vampire/human), My Hero (F/F superhero/human), and You Don’t Say (M/M rival psychic investigators)

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