#MM #Contemporary #Romance #Crime #Mercenaries #HurtComfort
Bullied ~ No More
A Legacy Novel
By Rain Carrington
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Finding peace at last, Javier Duran thought he’d hung up his guns and camo from his life as a mercenary to live in a town surrounded by beautiful mountains. Taking jobs that required him to be out of town periodically was perfect for him, except this time, when someone broke into his sanctuary.
Daniel Norman didn’t have an easy life. Abused by his brother and ignored by his father, he only existed. Learning how to get around security systems was the only skill he had that his family gave him credit for, so he did it well.
The house on the edge of town, the mysterious man who owned it, they were different for Daniel. Intrigued, he did his job and got their crew into the house but regretted it, as each room he entered told him a little more about the man who lived there.
When Javier returned home during the break in, everything changed for them both. Attempting to save Javier, Daniel commits murder, and Javier is determined to save him. To a cabin he’d bought the same time he’d bought his beloved house, he whisked Daniel, getting to know the quiet young man and finding more than he bargained for.
The age difference was Javi’s main concern, knowing his feelings for Daniel could only grow. Discarding him like others had, however, could break him. Can Javi chance his own heart to save the heart of the young man, or will his old life creep back in and destroy them both?
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Throwing the keys on the table, Lee Norman scowled at his brother, who had been in charge of cooking the evening meal. “You made that fucking canned chili again? What are you good for, shithead? One fucking thing.”
All the things he could say to that, but none of them would do a thing except get him smacked around or worse, so he bit them all back, letting them die in his gut.
Lee served himself a bowl and sat across from him, shoveling the chili into his mouth while he took out a piece of notebook paper from his pocket.
While Lee was gorgeous, tall, built perfectly, with little effort, and his face was out of the movies, he didn’t read, rarely wrote anything down except for one thing. Plans for a job.
Daniel Norman looked very much like his brother, but watered down, as he thought it. His nose a little bigger, though long and straight, his hair as dark, but never fell right like Lee’s did. It was thicker, so it tended to hang unless he chopped it short, and he didn’t have time for barbers.
Lee’s cheekbones were sharp and cheeks sunken in perfectly, enough to show his great bones, while Daniel’s cheeks did little to show anything but how young he was. In fact, making him look younger than his age of twenty. The stubble Lee kept made him rugged, despite what a pretty man he was, and Daniel hated him for it. Of course, Daniel hated him for everything. Lee was a terrible person and a worse brother, but every time Daniel thought of leaving, Lee would remind him that he’d never make it on his own. Besides, who would take care of their ailing father?
“Got a job. Looks to be a good one. Roger Wells, that guy who lives over there by the reservoir, he saw the moving van a few months ago. Said the guy living there has some nice shit.”
Tommy, Lee’s best friend and partner in crime, literally, came in and grabbed a bowl from the pile of dishes in the sink, rinsing it quickly before serving himself some of the chili. “Roger wants a cut, remember.”
“Yeah, yeah. He’ll get his ten percent of whatever the hell we feel like telling him the haul was worth.”
Tommy, the lanky blond who was as plain as Daniel considered himself, huffed out a laugh and kept eating while he said with a full mouth, “Righth.”
Pushing his empty bowl away, Lee tossed the paper to Daniel. “Find out what his security system is, if any, and plan on getting this started in a week. He takes these trips once a month, and he’s set to be gone for ten days.”
“How do you know how long this time?”
Shrugging one shoulder, Lee explained, “Roger’s been casing for us. He lives right down the street, sees the guy coming and going. Whoever he is that lives there, he doesn’t socialize with the neighbors. The title of the place is under some corporation, so I figure he don’t want nobody to know who he is. That works for us.”
“How?” Tommy asked, and Daniel rolled his eyes, though his head was down, so no one would see the gesture.
“Then he won’t wanna call the cops.”
Perking, Tommy guffawed in that idiotic way he had and kept scooping food down his throat.
“Get all you can find out, shithead.”
That was him. Daniel couldn’t remember the last time Lee had called him by his actual name.
He pushed his chair back, grabbed his bowl and Lee’s, depositing them both on top of the pile in the sink, knowing he’d get bitched at for not doing them, but if he did, Lee would complain he was slacking on the information for the job.
Tommy handed the paper over to him and ordered, “Get to looking up what you can find. Roger says we need to get this job done before the guy who lives there gets back. Tommy and me will go scope it out tonight and the next couple days.”
His beat-up computer that had seen its best days years before, when Lee used it to watch porn half the night, sat with the power off, and it took twenty minutes to boot up. During that time, he stared off at the floor to ceiling crack in the wall behind his bed, showing the white plaster that lay under the faded hunter green paint.
It felt like his life, faded with a crack, nothing new or pretty. Once, long years before, he dreamed of better things. A family that cared about him, new clothes that fit, maybe even a boyfriend. Then, he’d cut himself off from wishes and dreams, letting them die in the back of his heart, where they’d hidden for so long. Those pretty pictures in his head, like a rose in winter, had slowly wilted, the petals falling and turning to dust.
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A mother, a friend and fur-mommy, Rain Carrington lives in Colorado with her boyfriend and their three cats, one dog and two grandpups. She spends her time reading, writing and getting out into the beautiful Rocky Mountains as often as she can.
Writing books had been a lifelong dream but raising three kids left little time to pursue it. When she came to a part of her life when they were grown, and her body was telling her to slow down from physical activities, her daughters pushed her to finally go after her dream of writing books.
Taking advice for possibly the first time in her obstinate life, Rain got onto the computer and let the words start flowing from her. Her first published book was Honky Tonk, released in October of 2013, and from there, she fell more in love with the art and has gone on to write several series.
Rain Carrington is a novelist specializing in the male/male genre. She’s written over thirty books and has topped the charts in the genre several times in multiple countries. Her work can be found on Amazon.
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