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    Finally

    By Amelia Mann

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    Not everyone spends their summers on sandy beaches or in luxurious resorts. World-famous opera singer Philip Jameson has arrived in Munich to perform at the Opera Summer Festival after making the biggest mistake of his life. For years he has been secretly in love with his best friend, Andrew, and believes the shield he has built is bulletproof: Andrew was never to know. But at a boisterous party in London following the most successful live TV broadcast of his career, whatever walls Philip has built crumble, and, in the middle of the dance floor, he can’t resist the urge to kiss Andrew. Painfully he realizes what he did was so very wrong.

    Andrew Greene has traveled more times than he can count during the last four years. To every city in the world where Philip sings, he flies to spend all his spare time with his best friend. At the breakneck speed with which Philip’s career is developing, he is the constant motion. When Philip reveals he intimately cares for Andrew, it is finally time for Andrew to change his life completely―in favor of love.

    Part of "Summer Bigger Than Others - A Summer Anthology" from Beaten Track Publishing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateJun 21, 2015
    ISBN9781910635667
    Finally
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    Amelia Mann

    "Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths." - Alexander PushkinSince author Amelia Mann lives in the cold, dark North, her characters must be warm and bright. The men in her stories live their own lives in her head, sometimes letting her in on their secrets. Amelia believes all things must come to a happy end, or it is not just finished yet.

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      Book preview

      Finally - Amelia Mann

      Finally

      Summer Bigger Than Others

      An Anthology of Short Hot Summer Reads

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Copyright 2015 Amelia Mann at Smashwords.

      Amelia Mann: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ameliamann

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      This novel is a work of fiction and the characters and events in it exist only in its pages and in the author’s imagination.

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      Finally

      Amelia Mann

      Not everyone spends their summers on sandy beaches or in luxurious resorts. World-famous opera singer Philip Jameson has arrived in Munich to perform at the Opera Summer Festival after making the biggest mistake of his life. For years he has been secretly in love with his best friend, Andrew, and believes the shield he has built is bulletproof: Andrew was never to know. But at a boisterous party in London following the most successful live TV broadcast of his career, whatever walls Philip has built crumble, and, in the middle of the dance floor, he can’t resist the urge to kiss Andrew. Painfully he realizes what he did was so very wrong.

      Andrew Greene has traveled more times than he can count during the last four years. To every city in the world where Philip sings, he flies to spend all his spare time with his best friend. At the breakneck speed with which Philip’s career is developing, he is the constant motion. When Philip reveals he intimately cares for Andrew, it is finally time for Andrew to change his life completely―in favor of love.

      Tags: MM Romance, contemporary, friends to lovers, explicit

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      About Amelia Mann

      By Amelia Mann

      Summer Bigger Than Others

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      CHAPTER ONE

      Just one last bow and it would be over for tonight.

      When the curtain was finally down for good and the spotlights turned off, I moved to leave the stage as quickly as possible. I had to get to my dressing room before anyone stopped me or tried to speak to me; I needed to be alone. Dripping with sweat and the heavy stage makeup streaming down my face, I pushed past the crowd standing in the wings applauding. They stared at me. I hoped they didn’t see the panic in my eyes.

      Breathe, breathe. I can’t breathe.

      I’d felt trapped and hot. An August heat wave over southern Germany had turned the stage into Hell’s antechamber with temperatures up to ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit and no escape. I found myself freaking out, right there in the middle of the opening night of La Bohème. Suddenly I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t move. At the same time, I knew very well it wasn’t the heat. If I hadn’t been such an idiot, none of this would have happened, and my life wouldn’t be in such turmoil.

      A kiss. Just one single kiss and it had ruined everything. I had ruined everything.

      How could I have been so completely out of my mind? You don’t kiss your best friend; even if he were the last man on Earth, you just wouldn’t.

      My eyes watered at the thought of my stupidity and losing Andrew because of it. I’d cried enough these last four weeks, goddamnit. Not again. Not here. Not now.

      Someone squeezed my shoulder, making my head-over-heels escape impossible. You were wonderful tonight, Herr Jameson.

      I stopped and grinned in the direction of the man’s voice while I swept my eyes with my thumb. When I could see him clearly, I recognized him as the props manager.

      Thank you, you are most kind. My standard reply. I should have made an effort to be more personal; the man had spent four weeks of rehearsals trying to do his very best to help me.

      Tonight’s performance was the grand opening of the Bavarian Summer Opera Festival in Munich. I’d been on autopilot the whole evening, and it was impossible the audience hadn’t noticed. During the third act, I’d let my thoughts drift for just one second, and my brain had immediately called up an image of Andrew’s guarded, expressionless face the last time I saw him. The prompter had barked my lines at me in order to get me to focus.

      You forgot your flowers. The director’s assistant caught up with me and forced an enormous bunch of flowers, made up of different bouquets, into my arms.

      I reached past the armful of flowers and hugged her awkwardly. Thank you, Christine. Thanking people was also autonomic tonight, apparently.

      She looked up at me, examining my face. Do you feel okay? Is something wrong?

      Wrong? Hell yes. The only man I’ve ever loved is keeping

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