My
newest book BUSINESS OR PLEASURE is now available for early download at Totally
Bound: https://www.totallybound.com/business-or-pleasure#excerpt
Of
course it will be available at Amazon, ARe, and the usual booksellers as of
August 22nd.
But
you don’t have to wait. You can have instant gratification and read it TODAY!
Business
or Pleasure
Tommy Boudreaux is
extremely attracted to Guy Rogers even though he’s a passionate vegetarian and
animal rights activist and Tommy’s family owns the most popular barbecue joint
in town.
Guy Rogers is extremely attracted to his new realtor, Tom
Boudreaux. As a passionate vegetarian and animal rights activist, he’s ecstatic
that Tom is a kindred soul. He could never be with a carnivore. Unfortunately,
Tommy isn’t really a vegetarian or an animal rights activist. He never said he
was, either, he just didn’t eat meat when he was with Guy. And maybe he emptied
his house of all meat and dairy products before inviting Guy over. In fact,
Tommy’s family owns the most popular barbecue restaurant in town and, if his
family has their way, he’ll manage the new location.
When Guy finds out that Tommy eats meat and his family owns a
restaurant that’s a monument to eating meat, he’s livid and doesn’t know if he
wants anything else to do with Tommy.
But then Guy’s life gets crazy—his dad’s paranoia blossoms into
violent dementia, Guy gets arrested for picketing a doggy mill then he winds up
in even more legal trouble. When Tommy sticks by him through all his problems
and does everything he can to help him, Guy wonders if he’s been too militant
and narrow-minded. Perhaps he can learn to live with people who have opposite
views.
Excerpt:
Ready to die to protect the poor, abused animals being murdered
at this slaughter house daily, Guy Rogers held his picket sign high and proud.
He raised his voice and chanted with his animal rights activist group, “This
little piggy won’t go to market.”
The business’ owners shouted at them to leave. Would-be
customers growled at them and tried to cross the line. But every time someone
tried, Guy got in their face, growled and bared his teeth. “What gives you the
right to slaughter innocents?”
A man wearing a baseball cap and chewing on a piece of straw
stomped up to him and thrust an open Bible into his face. With exaggerated
emphasis he stabbed his finger at a passage. “Read the Bible. God gave us
animals to eat. Just look at Deuteronomy. It says ‘Every moving thing that
lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you
everything’.”
He looked pointedly at the man’s protruding belly under his
faded plaid flannel shirt. “I know He told you not to be a glutton, either. Get
out of my face, man. That verse says ‘every moving thing that lives’. Does that
mean you’re gonna start eating your fellow human beings? Huh?”
“Uh, no. It doesn’t mean that! That’s disgusting!” The carnivore
tugged his hat lower over his rheumy eyes and scowled.
“What’s disgusting is eating living creatures that can’t defend
themselves. I tell you what. You go out and fight a lion barehanded, and if you
win, you can eat him. If he wins, he can eat you. Now that’s fair.”
“You’re sick!”
“You’re the pathetic one, eating innocent creatures that can’t
speak up for themselves.” Guy puffed up in pride. Vegetarians like him ate
well-balanced diets with plenty of protein that never had a face or a mother.
He could live with himself just fine.
“Guy! Get back in line before you get yourself arrested.”
Jessica, one of his fellow activists, motioned him back, away from a couple of
policemen inching toward him. She fancied herself a protective little sister
and even looked like it with her fierce bulldog attitude.
Guy grimaced but pulled himself away from the one-on-one
conflict. As much as his adrenaline was flowing, and he did want to deck the
guy, violence wasn’t the answer.
“You’re so brave letting a little girl tell you what to do.”
Mischief danced in the antagonist’s eyes, and he clenched his fists at his
sides.
“You’re not worth wasting my breath.” Guy turned to his fellows
and commanded, “Lay down in front of the entrances. Don’t let anyone through.”
A policeman rushed up and got in his face. The man’s eyes were
mere slits of fire. “Do that and I’m arresting you.”
Backing down wasn’t in Guy’s vocabulary. To make his point he
lay spread-eagled on the ground. Daring him, he sneered at the official. “I do
what I must. You do what you must.”
The policemen rolled him over roughly and handcuffed him.
“You’re coming with us, funny guy.”
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