Chapter 1Finn Ransom was getting married. And Matthew Reid’s chest wanted to cave in, to crumple, to collapse.
He read the headline again. And then he put his phone down, with careful precision, on his kitchen counter. And he let himself slump back against granite and wood, and took a deep breath, and let it out.
The morning—pale grey, sharp, December-brittle—hurt like the edges of broken ornaments.
He’d known. Of course he’d already known. There’d been other headlines; this wasn’t the newest. The engagement had happened back in October. Finn and his boyfriend—now fiancé—Wesley Kim had been out on dates, going to bookshops, sharing bites of each other’s food at restaurants, holding hands on hayrides and pumpkin-picking and apple-cider-pressing excursions, both of them wearing visible ri
