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Beautifully Fractured
By Michele Lenard
Front Range University, Book 1
Cruz
Starting over is not what I had planned.
Those stories about magically becoming best friends with the person assigned to live with you… Yeah, that won’t be me. I already have a best friend. Even if I wanted a new one, Liam wouldn’t be it. He’s permanently grouchy, carrying a negative energy I don’t need since I’m finally in a good place. But I’ve never been good at ignoring when people need help, so I paste on a smile and play nice.
Predictably, Liam isn’t much of a talker, but after an unexpected accident he needs my help in other ways. Ways that offer me answers about myself. Ways that raise new questions about the football dreams I’ve been chasing since I was a kid. Ways that make me relive the past I want to ignore.
To say I’m confused is an understatement, but there’s one thing I know for certain…Liam is either the key to one door or the bolt that could prevent another from ever opening. And I have to choose which I want him to be.
Liam
Starting over is exactly what I need.
I can’t get any more invisible than I’ve been for the past few years, and I figure rooming with another person means at least one human on the planet can’t ignore me. Unfortunately, that human is Adonis personified, and not gay, so it’s looking like my invisibility streak might continue.
Then I suffer a minor accident, and Cruz’s hero complex comes out in full force.
I should be grateful to have someone to open my door and carry my books, but when you pair his selfless personality with that body… My mind starts to blur the roommate line, which makes his blur the line of not being gay.
My heart is already battered, and I doubt it can take rejection from the one person who broke down all the walls I’d built around it. That doesn’t mean I won’t try to give it to him anyway.
**Beautifully Fractured is a high-heat MM romance with medium angst that features a grumpy/sunshine relationship, forced proximity, hurt/comfort situations and a bi-awakening. This is book one in a series of interconnected standalones. Though the main characters are athletes, this is not a sports romance. Rather, it’s a romance that happens to feature people who play sports.
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Shower.
That word causes my mind to drift to Liam, and the sounds I hear coming from the bathroom every evening, which are distracting to say the least. More than once I’ve tried to imagine what he’s doing in there since it doesn’t sound anything like my showers, and I’m curious how he gets himself to make those noises.
They’re loud, and low, nothing like what I’ve heard the few times I’ve tried to hook up with women, who might give a little moan, or a gasp, but nothing as rough and raw as what drifts through the door when Liam’s in there. Hell, I’ve never even made those sounds, and we have the same equipment, so either he’s just more vocal, or he’s doing something I’ve never thought to try. A different pace, or pressure, or spot.
Whatever it is, he emerges with flushed skin and sleepy eyes, and promptly passes out on his bed, sleeping through the night like a baby.
I feel like a bit of a creeper for knowing that. I’m not watching him on purpose, it’s just hard not to notice how sated he is when his head hits the pillow. I’ve never felt that myself, and I think part of me wonders what it’s like. I’m almost envious that he can experience arousal so easily.
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