Best Man’s Curiosity
MM Contemporary Romance
by Jace Wilder
Free with Kindle Unlimited
Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Bi Awakening, Forced Proximity, Best Friend’s Brother, Wedding Romance, Praise Kink, Only One Bed, Secret Hookup, Slow Burn
He came to run the wedding. He left questioning everything.
Ethan Cole is the hyper-competent best man who shows up with a color-coded binder and a plan for everything — except the groom’s younger brother. At thirty-two, he’s the guy who plans everyone else’s life and has never once sat still long enough to plan his own. His ex-fiancée left because he was “performing a relationship, not having one.” He’s never examined why that hit so hard.
Ryan Cole is the groom’s flirty, openly gay younger brother who’s tired of being someone’s beautiful secret. He’s had three exes who wanted him in their bedroom but not on their Instagram. He showed up to make his brother’s wedding amazing, not fall for a straight best man who will inevitably choose comfort over him.
But a hotel booking mix-up forces them into the same room — and the same king bed. Five days of wedding chaos, forced proximity, and relentless chemistry push them from stolen glances to a scorching secret fling that threatens to become terrifyingly real.
Ethan’s never wanted a man before. Ryan’s never been chosen before. And with the wedding clock ticking, they’ll have to decide: keep the secret and lose each other, or risk everything for the chance to be honest — about who they are, who they want, and what happens after the last dance.
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Bi awakening with a praise-kink hero who discovers he loves letting go
✅ Forced proximity — one king bed, five days, zero willpower
✅ Best friend’s brother with wedding-week tension
✅ Secret hookup that becomes “I’m not hiding you”
✅ Slow burn that EXPLODES (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ Found family, dual POV, low angst
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes), strong language, alcohol use, and themes of internalized bi erasure and coming out. Intended for readers 18+.
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Chapter One: The Spreadsheet
I had a binder.
In my defense, it was a good binder. Color-coded tabs, laminated itinerary, emergency contact list with allergies cross-referenced against the catering menu. I’d been working on it since Adam called me six months ago, half-drunk on champagne, yelling she said yes, dude, she said YES into the phone while Sophie laughed in the background.
The binder rode shotgun the whole three-hour drive from the city. It sat in the passenger seat like a co-pilot, which said something about my life that I wasn’t prepared to examine on a Tuesday afternoon.
Lakewood Lodge rose out of the tree line like something from a tourism brochure — old stone and dark wood, wide porches wrapping around both floors, the lake glittering behind it through gaps in the pines. Which was exactly how I wanted it. Contained. Controlled. Five days, one location, forty-seven guests.
“ETHAN!” Adam hit me like a golden retriever who’d just been told the word walk. Six-two, two-twenty, all enthusiasm and no spatial awareness.
I loved them. Genuinely. I was going to give them a perfect wedding if it killed me.
Ryan arrived at seven-fifteen, forty-five minutes late. He didn’t walk in. He materialized. Skinny black jeans. A vintage button-down, olive green, open one button too many. A guitar case in one hand, a duffel in the other.
“So you’re the famous Ethan.” He shook my hand. His eyes moved over me with open, unhurried assessment. “Adam talks about you like you’re Batman. You’re taller than I expected.”
“And you’re later than I expected,” I said, because being an asshole was easier than whatever just happened in my chest.
“Oh, I like you,” he said. “This is going to be fun.”
He let go of my hand. My palm tingled where his fingers had been.
Later, in my room, I lay in clean sheets and stared at the ceiling. Through the wall — thin wall, old building — I could hear Ryan playing guitar. Something acoustic, fingerpicked, warm and a little melancholy.
I listened for longer than was reasonable. I should have put in earplugs. Instead I lay there in the dark with my hand on my chest, feeling my heartbeat, and listened to a man I barely knew play music that made something behind my ribs ache in a way I had no name for.
Stop it, I told myself. You’re here to run a wedding, not to have a crisis.
I did not sleep for a very long time.
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Ethan and Ryan return to Lakewood Lodge for Adam and Sophie’s anniversary. Same boathouse. Same reckless energy. But this time there’s no secret to keep — just two men who know exactly what they want, and a locked door, and a workbench that’s about to get a second christening.
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