Best Man’s Burden

Seamus has built his life like a fortress: measured, dependable, and composed. His wedding to Charlie is supposed to be the final keystone, a picture-perfect future with the man he loves.

Then Garth arrives.

Tall, magnetic, and impossibly confident, Garth is Charlie’s old college roommate and newly named best man. What starts as a minor disruption quickly becomes a destabilizing force. With each passing moment, Garth’s presence chips away at Seamus’ control and ignites something deeper and dangerous.

As the wedding unfolds, so too does a slow unmaking of roles, expectations, and desire. Caught in a triangle he never asked for, but may secretly crave, Seamus must confront what he’s willing to give up to be free in himself and his marriage.

Told with razor-sharp intimacy and aching erotic tension, Best Man’s Burden is a darkly romantic exploration of dominance, submission, cuckoldry, and the strange freedom that comes from surrendering the script.

Best Man’s Burden is a 10,200-word novelette. All content in this story is fictional and depicts activities between consenting, unrelated adults who are 18+.