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Damon Suede
Book ArchiveContemporaryGayMolten
PENT UP: Mix business with pleasure and take cover.
Ruben Oso moves to Manhattan to start his life over as a low-rent bodyguard and stumbles into a gig in a swanky Park Avenue penthouse. What begins as executive protection turns personal working for a debonair zillionaire who makes Ruben question everything about himself.
Watching over financial hotshot Andy Bauer puts Ruben in an impossible position. He knows zero about shady trading and his cocky boss lives barricaded in a glass tower with wall-to-wall secrets and hot-and-cold-running paranoia. Can the danger be real? Is Andy for real?
What's a bullet catcher to do? Ruben knows his emotions are out of control even as he races to untangle a high-priced conspiracy and his crazy feelings before somebody gets dead. If his suspicions are right, Andy will pay a price neither can afford, and Ruben may discover there's no way to guard a heart.
This book is pure fire! The gay-for-you-trope can be tricky, but Damon Suede not only has it down, he spins out a DOUBLE gay-for-you story! There is a slow burn with super hot, dirty-talking payoff. I could totally relate to Ruben trying to navigate through Andy’s super strange and ultra-rich world. Paired with intrigue and a battle with addiction, this a worthwhile and absorbing read!
A taste
SOMETIMES A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen. Ruben”
I have to leave or I’ll cry or I’ll hit him or I’ll lose control and he’ll see exactly what I am: an open drain that leads into a sewer.”
“His brown toes sank into the sixteen thousand dollar Agra rug. His jeans hung like seaweed from the Philippe Starck valet. His stubble scraped the eight-hundred-dollar pillowcase.”
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