Married Cowboy

By Drew Hunt

Sequel to Calvin’s Cowboy

When John “Brock” Brockwell’s high school class ring goes missing, then later reappears, his boyfriend, Calvin Hamilton, denies all knowledge. Often when Brock walks into a room, Calvin and his guests change the subject.

What’s going on? Brock wonders if Calvin is working up to proposing marriage. But despite several opportunities -- limo rides, drinking champagne in a private jet before retiring to the bedroom at the back of the plane, and vacationing on a gay dude ranch in Texas -- Calvin doesn’t pop the question.

Brock soon finds life as a cowboy on the ranch isn’t what he thought it would be. When he confesses this to Calvin, tempers flare. Where are the wedding bells Brock was expecting? Will love and honor win out over pride and stubbornness?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Feb 28, 2016
• ISBN: 9781634860727

Drew Hunt

Having read all the decent free fiction on the net Drew could find, he set out to try his hand at writing something himself. Fed up reading about characters who were super-wealthy, impossibly handsome, and incredibly well-endowed, Drew determined to make his characters real and believable.Drew lives a quiet life in the north of England with his cat. Someday he hopes to meet the kind of man he writes about. Readers can contact him at [e-mail].

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Married Cowboy

By Drew Hunt

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2016 Drew Hunt

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Married Cowboy

By Drew Hunt

John Brock Brockwell looked on with bemusement as his partner, Calvin Hamilton, wrestled a huge suitcase into the entry hall. Looking over into the kitchen, Brock said, You forgot the kitchen sink.

JJ, Brock’s son, snickered, and Calvin raised his middle finger.

Smirking, Brock continued, You’re worse than a woman with all you’ve packed.

You weren’t calling me a woman last night when—

Too much information, JJ exclaimed, clasping his hands over his ears.

Doofus. Brock patted his twenty-year-old son on the shoulder. Sorry, bud. But it was your idea to come with us.

Wouldn’t miss it for the world.

Brock was surprised his son, and his son’s girlfriend, had wanted to accompany them to a gay dude ranch in Texas. Or gay-friendly dude ranch as Maggie insisted it was advertised.

Calvin shot JJ a look.

A cowboy cain’t turn down the chance of a goin’ home, JJ said, overdoing the Texas accent he’d mostly lost in the years since moving to New York City.

Brock nodded and simply said, Uh huh.

For the past couple of months Brock had grown increasingly suspicious that something was going on. Whenever he asked Calvin about it, the man would look innocent, insist nothing was amiss, then deftly change the subject.

The latest piece in the mystery puzzle was the extra-large suitcase.

You taking your briefcase as well? Brock asked when his partner emerged from their bedroom again, brown leather briefcase in hand. Calvin had never done that before when they’d gone on vacation.

Just paperwork…new account.

Brock shook his head.

The first piece of the puzzle to appear had been the box containing his old class ring suddenly disappearing from his underwear drawer. When Brock had asked Calvin if he’d seen it, various expressions had flitted across Calvin’s face before they’d settled on puzzlement and he’d admitted he hadn’t seen the box. You never wear the ring anyway.

True. I should get it resized or something.

What? Calvin’s reaction was…strange.

Doesn’t fit any more. Too many misses with the hammer I guess. Brock stared down at his work-roughened hands. He was a contractor and hands like his went with the job.

You should be more careful! Calvin said before making an excuse about an early meeting and leaving the condo, cell phone pressed to his ear.

Brock found the ring box a few days later when he was reaching into the back of the drawer for his favorite pair of bikini briefs. The red underwear with its white piping always got Calvin going, saying they showed off Brock’s body. Brock had to admit that although his hands weren’t the best, his job gave him a good body, which was further helped by regular sessions at the gym.

Brock was sure the ring box hadn’t been there before. He’d searched the drawer quite thoroughly. He snapped the lid open and looked down at the garnet and jasper setting, garnet and white being the school’s colors.

The gold band shone on its velvet pillow. Brock remembered working his ass off during the summer before his senior year and then blowing a big chunk of his savings on an eighteen-carat gold band.

The ring held bittersweet memories. He’d given it to Mary Ann, his high school sweetheart, when she’d told Brock she was pregnant. He’d put her ring on a chain around his neck. The chain felt like a millstone when both his dad and Mary Ann’s dad insisted their children do the right thing and get married.

Years later when they got divorced, Mary Ann giving Brock back his ring somehow felt more real than the divorce decree.

Brock tried the ring on once again but couldn’t get it past his first knuckle. Yeah, he really should get