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Jared is sweating. His hands are clammy and there’s a pool of sweat which has wet his undershirt completely. He hates wearing layers of clothes. Just like currently, he’s wearing a tuxedo; a black tuxedo with white lapels with a matching black waistcoat fastened with white buttons, a white shirt with a black bow tie and pants that have a silk strip down each side. His mom and sister swear that it suits him and he looks handsome, but he knows he’s more eager to get out of this monkey suit. He looks around, to see there are people sitting. Almost everyone he sent an invite to is present as if they were eagerly anticipating this day. His brother is standing just behind him in a grey suit, a pale pink waistcoat, a white bowtie and white shirt. Jared thinks it’s classier than the white and black disaster he’s wearing but he’d been given a warning, “Jared, you better be wearing what I selected for you or this isn’t happening, my man.” And Jared isn’t stupid to rebel against a stern order. He loves life too much, for it to end on a whimsical ground as stupid as the choice of tux. He had initially decided on a plain black tux and white shirt but he’d been told, “It’s too plain. And it’s just boring. I mean I wear that more frequently at meetings and I have like a ten of them. I want something special, something unique. And boy, don’t you dare ruin it for me.” And Jared had learned early on never to take a challenge at face value. So, that’s how he ended up wearing a stupid tux and sweating and feeling nervous waiting for the arrival of his better half.
Today is his wedding day. It still baffles him that he’s getting married. Not only is he getting married, but he’s going to spend the rest of his life with the man of his dreams. He knows he’s damn lucky to get to have this. Because he knows he’s lucky t o share the rest of his life with the only person he’s ever loved, the only person who has captured his heart from the get go, the only person who he’s given his heart to, the only person he can’t fathom his life without, the only person who’s his anchor, his mentor, his best friend and life mate. He’s so in love with his partner that he can’t understand how he lived his life before him. It’s stupid and its dangerous and he’d come this close to being heartbroken but it never had deterred him. His feelings had remained and his love even stronger. He doesn’t know what he would have done had his partner rejected him. But fortunately, his partner had loved him just as much if not more. When he thinks back to the day he met the love of his life, it never fails to amaze him just how fast he’d fallen for the green-eyed man. Jensen.
It had been by luck that he had been allotted to work under Jensen as his junior. Jensen was well known in the world of law as a ruthless attorney. He was a workaholic, at least his image was. And he was just terrific in courtrooms. He was the dark knight of his family. He was the son of Anton Ackles, owner of the big Infra Tech empire, that was into developing software. He was supposed to be the Managing Director of the same but he didn’t have any interest in it, unlike Jason Ackles, his big brother who was going to inherit the position from his father. But Jensen, he went on to become a lawyer instead. There was a bit of a tussle between the father and son, but, they had overcome it in order to stay family. Jensen had always felt bad for the marginalized that that had been an inspiration for him to become a lawyer. He specialized in human rights and constitutional law. Any case that came to him, he was sure to win it hands down. In his glorious eight year career as a lawyer, there’d been very few cases that hadn’t gone his way. He was in a class of his own. He was known for his sharp dressing style, and the confident aura he gave off. His emerald green eyes had the ability to stare deep into your soul, along with his spiked golden blond hair, his plush full pink lips and his cute freckles had been what led to Jared’s downfall.