Ruthless Stepbrother
(2027)(The third book in the Stepbrother Obsession series)
A novel by Delilah Drew
ENFORCER. STEPBROTHER. STRAIGHT.
Ryan was always untouchable. The hockey league's most feared enforcer. Straight. And the stepbrother I'd spent ten years training myself not to look at.
Then one cheap shot into the boards shattered his shoulder and put his whole career on the line. The team gave him a single way back. Six months of live-in rehab with the one physical therapist they trusted to rebuild him.
Me.
That’s where it all went wrong.
Because you can't put your hands on a man twice a day, every day, and keep pretending he's nothing to you.
Ryan hated needing anyone. He hated needing me most of all. He ran off every other therapist who came near me, stole my hoodies, showed up at my door at 2 a.m. when the pain wouldn't let him sleep. He said it was the injury. He said it was the meds. He said it was anything but the truth.
He told me he was straight. But the stronger he got, the harder he held on. Because the man who broke bodies for a living was terrified of one thing. Healing enough to walk away from me.
He'd always been my untouchable stepbrother. Now his comeback lives in my hands, and neither of us knows what he'll do the day he doesn't need them anymore.
RUTHLESS STEPBROTHER is a dark, high-angst MM hockey sports romance: a possessive enforcer, a career-ending injury, a forbidden live-in rehab, and a brutal hero who'd rather stay broken than let go of what's his. HEA guaranteed.
Genre: Gay Romance
Ryan was always untouchable. The hockey league's most feared enforcer. Straight. And the stepbrother I'd spent ten years training myself not to look at.
Then one cheap shot into the boards shattered his shoulder and put his whole career on the line. The team gave him a single way back. Six months of live-in rehab with the one physical therapist they trusted to rebuild him.
Me.
That’s where it all went wrong.
Because you can't put your hands on a man twice a day, every day, and keep pretending he's nothing to you.
Ryan hated needing anyone. He hated needing me most of all. He ran off every other therapist who came near me, stole my hoodies, showed up at my door at 2 a.m. when the pain wouldn't let him sleep. He said it was the injury. He said it was the meds. He said it was anything but the truth.
He told me he was straight. But the stronger he got, the harder he held on. Because the man who broke bodies for a living was terrified of one thing. Healing enough to walk away from me.
He'd always been my untouchable stepbrother. Now his comeback lives in my hands, and neither of us knows what he'll do the day he doesn't need them anymore.
RUTHLESS STEPBROTHER is a dark, high-angst MM hockey sports romance: a possessive enforcer, a career-ending injury, a forbidden live-in rehab, and a brutal hero who'd rather stay broken than let go of what's his. HEA guaranteed.
Genre: Gay Romance