Teddy’s Truth by KD Ellis
Book 1 in the Out in Austin series
General Release Date: 12th January 2021
Word Count: 92,509
Book Length: SUPER NOVEL
Pages: 357
Genres: ACTION AND ADVENTURE, CONTEMPORARY, CRIME, EROTIC ROMANCE, GAY, GLBTQI, MEN IN UNIFORM, THRILLERS AND SUSPENSE, TRANSGENDER
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Book Description
Teddy De Luca thought being born into the wrong body was the worst thing that had ever happened to him. Then he met Julian…
All Teddy De Luca wants is for his outside to match his inside—so badly that he takes a loan from a Mexican cartel. It’s not like he can borrow the money from his alcoholic mother. She got him into this mess in the first place when she poured his savings into bottles of Jack. He figures he’ll get his operation, pick up a second job, then pay the debt off quickly and put it all behind him. When the cartel raises the stakes, his plan falls apart and he’s left with a mounting debt and no way out.
Ian Romero is a second generation Hispanic-American whose only goal is to live the American dream—finish college, find the perfect partner and settle down. His inappropriate crush on his brother’s best friend isn’t going to stop him. But when his troubled brother becomes another victim of the local cartel, his plans change. He can’t save his brother, but he can get his revenge.
After years apart, Teddy’s and Ian’s paths cross again, neither expecting the passion between them to re-ignite even hotter than before. Can Ian forgive Teddy’s role in his brother’s death to become the Daddy the younger man needs—or is their relationship destined to fail again?Reader advisory: This book contains scenes of violence, rape, and a live burial. There are BDSM elements including Daddy kink and mild power play. There are scenes of loan-sharking, blackmail, torture, public sex, parental neglect and domestic violence.
Teddy felt like all the air had been pulled from his body and replaced with helium, because surely he was floating. Ian’s hands cradling his face were large but gentle.
A throat cleared beside them and Ian leaned back, freeing Teddy to draw in a breath. “Yes, Mama?” Ian asked. Mama Romero had a straight face, but there was a glint in her eye. Teddy didn’t know whether or not to feel embarrassed.
“Nadine would like to know if Teddy is feeling okay. She said you were performing mouth-to-mouth on your friend.” Mama Romero’s lips twitched, and Teddy flushed. Nadine was one of Ian’s many cousins. She was seven or thereabouts—Teddy couldn’t remember.
“I think I fixed him,” Ian smirked, looking back at Teddy. “What do you think? Is your heart beating fine, or do we need to try again?”
Mama Romero huffed and swatted her son’s arm. “Go mingle with your guests, mijo. Take your pretty friend with you, if you want.” Mama Romero winked at Teddy.
“Yes, Mama.” Ian agreed as his mother walked away.
Teddy couldn’t help his chuckle. Ian lifted an eyebrow. “You laugh, but you’ve never had her chase you with a chancla. She’s a brute of a woman.”
“Your mother is an angel,” Teddy corrected. He stood up and dusted off the seat of his jeans. “Come on. Let’s go mingle. I’d hate to make your mother mad.”
They made it only a handful of feet from the shadowed seats near the back fence before getting swarmed. A half dozen children of varying ages were soon hanging off Ian’s arms and back, while a young boy giggled and sat on his left shoe, arms wrapped around Ian’s calf. A girl in a lacy pink dress tugged on Teddy’s pant leg, talking rapidly in Spanish. Teddy could get by with it, if pressed, but it required a good deal of patience, as well as quite a bit of repetition, from the speaker. The little girl, while adorable, had neither.
“Mas lento, por favor… No entiendo,” Teddy said, crouching down in front of her to try and catch the movements of her lips.
The little girl huffed. “Estabas besando a mi prima. Vas a casarte con el ahora?”
“Um… Si?” He didn’t quite understand what she was asking. He knew besando was kissing, and…prima was cousin. He wasn’t sure about the rest, and he felt stupid asking her to say it again.
In front of him, Ian laughed, looking back at him. His eyes were bright with amusement. “Good to know, sweetheart.”
“Wait! What did I just agree to? Ian!” Teddy protested when Ian mimed locking his lips and throwing away a key. “Come on, no fair!”
“All’s fair in love and war,” Ian called over his shoulder. He set the children down that he held in each arm and they scampered off to play. Then he crouched down in front of the giggling girl by Teddy. “Mayumi, cuando nos casemos, vas a llevar las flores para mi?”
“Si!” Mayumi squealed and ran off to a woman in a brightly colored dress near the fire. “Mama, Mama! El Tio Ian prometio que puedo llevar las flores para su boda!”
The woman smiled and ruffled the little girl’s hair. “English, baby. You need to practice.”
Mayumi huffed, sucking in a breath and rapidly switching over. “Uncle Ian promised that I can carry the flowers for his wedding! Can they be dandelions? I like dandelions. They turn my fingers yellow and yellow is my favorite color!”
Teddy choked on nothing and spun toward Ian. “You told her we were getting married?”
“No, sweetheart, you told her we were getting married. I just agreed. I would never dream of arguing with my pollito.”
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KD Ellis is a professional cat wrangler by day, and an author by night. She moved from a small town to an even smaller village to live with her husband and wife and their two children. She loves reading—anything with men loving men. She writes queer romance in between working her two jobs and cuddling her pets—all six of them, which confuses the turtle.
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