Nicki’s Fight
Twin Peeks Bookstore Romance Book 2
Mellanie Rourke
M/M Romance
Release Date 12.09.19
Blurb
KAINE
A lifetime of abandonment leaves its mark on a person. So much so that when Nicki left, it made a twisted sort of sense. After all, everyone else I had loved in this world had left me, why should he be any different?
Six years later and he’s back in my life. He’s still the same Nicki. Still the same sensitive, intelligent, loving and compassionate man he was years ago. Except…there are shadows in his eyes that were never there before. How do I love him again, trust him again? If he disappears now, there’s no way I’d survive.
NICKI
I love Kaine Devereaux. I always have. But sometimes love just isn’t enough. When my family moved thousands of miles away to chase the dream of a cure for my mysterious illness, Kaine and I had no idea that more than distance would end up separating us.
How do I ask Kaine to trust me again when I almost destroyed him? How do I ask him to love me again, when I’m still haunted by the specter of my past?
Nicki’s Fight is a M/M Romance with danger, heat, and a snarky cat who saves a life. This story does include explicit sex scenes and descriptive domestic abuse. Please pay heed to the Trigger Warning: Scenes of domestic violence and abuse
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There are a lot of different tropes in writing M/M romances: fake boyfriend, age gap, secret princes, bodyguards, and so many more.
My favorite, though, is the hurt/comfort trope. I’m not sure what it is that appeals to me so much about reading and writing this trope. Maybe it’s that it gives the reader the opportunity to step into both roles: the person giving comfort, and the person receiving comfort.
Reading hurt/comfort books gives the reader a sense of power. How awesome is it to be the person who can step into a difficult situation (physical, emotional, or financial) and fix it all!? What an amazing sense of control that gives someone!
On the reverse, though, is something I think we all need as well: to be the person who is loved and taken care of. To be held, and comforted, and reassured we don’t have to worry because someone else is going to take care of everything. To be able to relinquish control to someone we trust.
I think hurt/comfort tropes meet both of these needs in all of us, and is why I will keep reading and probably keep writing them as well.
Kaine leaned into me, his hair falling down across his eyes, but he didn’t bother pushing it back this time. I felt the satiny smoothness of his lips brush across my own, and I groaned as desire bubbled up from the core of my being. For so long I’d pushed all my feelings away, not even letting myself think about what life could have been like for us if things had been different. If I’d been able to love Kaine like I’d wanted.
I could feel Kaine’s heartbeat pounding beneath my fingertips as I ran my hands over his chest, then under his shirt. His skin was hot and smooth, the brush of my touch causing goosebumps to rise up on his skin. I opened my mouth, my tongue flicking out to taste his lips, his tongue, caressing his mouth inside and out before nibbling along his jaw to his neck.
It was his turn to groan as I sucked a necklace of love bites along his chest before moving down to his nipples. I vaguely remembered him pulling his shirt off and tossing it aside as I began sucking at the honey-colored nubs. His body rippled under my touch, his defined abs contracting and relaxing as I caressed his body.
He tasted like summer heat and candle wax, like fire and first kisses. His touch was like coming home.
Mellanie Rourke lives in Akron, Ohio with her loving (and long-suffering) husband, snarky children, and furry menagerie.
She has been writing since she was a child but never had the impulse to publish until she was introduced to the world of MM Romance.
Now her husband has to put up with a variety of new ways to say “penis”, and her children aren’t allowed to tell their teachers what she writes.
For more information on Mellanie’s upcoming work, join her Facebook group Misfits & Malcontents at https://www.facebook.com/groups/MisfitsandMalcontents/
