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    Champagne Kisses
    Champagne Kisses
    Champagne Kisses
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    Champagne Kisses

    By Lynda Aicher

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    The Christmas Eve wedding Evan Cleary pulled together in four weeks is crashing down around him and taking his fledgling event planning business with it. With an empty altar and over a hundred guests arriving soon, he turns to the resistant, gorgeous brother of the runaway groom for help.

    When Richard Patterson’s flamboyant brother storms out hours before he’s scheduled to marry his equally dramatic partner, Richard is left dealing with the fallout. The last thing he wants is more drama, yet he can’t deny his attraction to the effeminate event planner trying to salvage the wedding.

    Evan thinks his crush on Richard is a lost cause, but one steaming kiss later, he learns different. What starts as a night of hot sex turns into a connection neither expected. But Evan knows their relationship is hopeless unless the ultra-conservative Richard can embrace every part of him—both in private and in public.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRiptide Publishing
    Release dateNov 17, 2015
    ISBN9781626493759
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    Lynda Aicher

      LYNDA AICHER is a USA Today Bestselling Author, an RWA RITA award finalist, RT Reviewers’ Choice winner and two-time Golden Flogger award winner who loves to write emotional romances. She spent years traveling weekly as a consultant implementing software into global companies, now her imagination is her only limitation on where she goes. Writing lets her escape the daily duties of being a mom, wife, chauffeur, scheduler, cook, teacher, cleaner and mediator.  

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    Champagne Kisses - Lynda Aicher

    Riptide Publishing

    PO Box 6652

    Hillsborough, NJ 08844

    www.riptidepublishing.com

    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. All person(s) depicted on the cover are model(s) used for illustrative purposes only.

    Champagne Kisses

    Copyright © 2015 by Lynda Aicher

    Smashwords Edition

    Cover art: L.C. Chase, lcchase.com/design.htm

    Editors: Sarah Lyons, May Peterson

    Layout: L.C. Chase, lcchase.com/design.htm

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher, and where permitted by law. Reviewers may quote brief passages in a review. To request permission and all other inquiries, contact Riptide Publishing at the mailing address above, at Riptidepublishing.com, or at marketing@riptidepublishing.com.

    ISBN: 978-1-62649-375-9

    First edition

    December, 2015

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    The Christmas Eve wedding Evan Cleary pulled together in four weeks is crashing down around him and taking his fledgling event planning business with it. With an empty altar and over a hundred guests arriving soon, he turns to the resistant, gorgeous brother of the runaway groom for help.

    When Richard Patterson’s flamboyant brother storms out hours before he’s scheduled to marry his equally dramatic partner, Richard is left dealing with the fallout. The last thing he wants is more drama, yet he can’t deny his attraction to the effeminate event planner trying to salvage the wedding.

    Evan thinks his crush on Richard is a lost cause, but one steaming kiss later, he learns different. What starts as a night of hot sex turns into a connection neither expected. But Evan knows their relationship is hopeless unless the ultra-conservative Richard can embrace every part of him—both in private and in public.

    To every reader who loves a happy ending. And to Sarah Lyons for giving this story a chance.

    About Champagne Kisses

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Chapter 7

    Chapter 8

    Chapter 9

    Chapter 10

    Epilogue

    Dear Reader

    Acknowledgments

    Also by Lynda Aicher

    About the Author

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    Evan Cleary cringed when the fragile vase shattered against the wall and burst into a spray of water, glass, and roses. Damn.

    How could you? The vase-wielding groom cried at his partner, agony ripping through his words.

    I didn’t know!

    Didn’t know? The high squeak threatened to break the crystal champagne flutes arranged around the reception tables. I shouldn’t have had to tell you.

    Honey. Nate. Please. Bryan wrung his hands, his face as twisted and tortured as his appendages appeared to be. It didn’t mean anything. He shot a pleading glance at Evan, distress turning his round face red.

    Evan took a step back, glancing between his two clients. This was not good. Having his first big event degrade into a brawl of outraged hurt would ruin his reputation.

    That couldn’t happen. No, he wouldn’t let it happen.

    Gentlemen, please. He adopted a droll tone, squared his shoulders, and waded into the fray. This can be solved without the hysterics.

    What? Nate’s outrage was backed by a hard glare. Hurt wavered beneath his anger before his face crumpled and he burst into tears.

    Baby, please. Bryan rushed forward before Evan could respond, desperation elevating his voice. I love you. You know that.

    Nate spun out of Bryan’s reach and grabbed another vase from a perfectly set table. Love doesn’t fuck around without consent.

    Oh God. Not another one. Neither the silent plea nor his frantic lunge toward Nate stopped the vase from flying. It zoomed at Nate’s partner—most likely ex-partner—with an accuracy that’d been absent earlier. The dull thwack of the heavy object against Bryan’s skull solidified the sinking ball of doom lodged in Evan’s stomach.

    Water splashed and roses peppered the air with red and white petals. Bryan stumbled back with a grunt, one arm flailing before he slammed into the table behind him, the champagne flutes toppling like dominos. He slid to the floor, wedged between two chairs, bright-red blood oozing from the welt on his forehead.

    This was so fucking bad.

    Evan leaped forward, spurred on by visions of his fledgling event planning business crashing before it’d even taken off.

    Bryan! The cry pierced the shocked silence as Nate shoved past Evan. Baby! What did I do? Nate hovered over his fallen lover, hand moving back and forth in an indecisive dab at the growing trail of blood that’d reached Bryan’s jaw. Oh God. Oh God. Are you okay?

    Bryan flinched, then groaned. He prodded his forehead, the stunned shock slowly morphing to rage. Do I look okay to you?

    Shit. Evan rushed over, nudged a floundering Nate out of the way, and pressed a napkin on Bryan’s wound, spreading the cloth to block his sight. With luck, it’d cut off his rising anger—justified or not. Evan had to shut him down before things got worse.

    Does it hurt? he asked, knowing the answer but scrambling for anything to divert Bryan’s focus away from Nate.

    Yes, it hurts, Bryan grumbled from behind the cloth.

    With a bit of trepidation, Evan peeked at the wound. The gash was split wide under blood that quickly pooled before he pressed the cloth back in place. He swallowed down the bitter rise of his frustration. Why me? Why this event?

    "I’ll get

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