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Whatever He Needs by Mia Kerick
When both lovers have daddy issues, it gets complicated.
Heir to the McAllister Construction fortune, Liam is focused on maintaining the myth that he is exactly the son his father wants. When he falls for Dimmy, a heavily inked go-go dancer, he fears revealing the romance, certain it won’t go over well with his upper-crust family—especially his father, who seems obsessed with building a family legacy.
Dimmy’s father, Gregory, is bent on making Dimmy earn his keep by any means, no matter how unsavory. He puts his barely legal son to work dancing provocatively at the seedy bar he runs and finds Dimmy work on the side providing masseuse services—and more—to club clientele. Gregory has Dimmy twisted into believing he can do no better, and Dimmy does it all in hopes of a pat on the back from dad.
Though Liam is but a few years older, Dimmy sees him as a man who might take care of him as his callous father never has, and reluctantly lets his guard down. But Liam, though he’s falling hard and fast for Dimmy, still hides his blossoming relationship from his family. A crisis ensues when a clash between the two fathers’ business interests puts Dimmy at serious risk.
When the right side of the tracks meets the oh-so-very wrong side, will Liam set his priorities straight in time to keep Dimmy from harm, or will fear shatter their lives?
Trigger warning: Whatever He Needs includes instances of physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault, and kidnapping.
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“Tell me about him, Alva.” I’m usually on the cool side—did I actually just demand Dimmy’s unauthorized bio? Looks like tonight I’m thirsty for more than just a few beers and a meaningless hook-up.
“Dimmy is Gregory Cirillo’s kid. Daddy’s the bar owner and a big deal in this part of town.”
“And his son, you said his name is Dimmy? He’s a hooker?” Father would be displeased to learn that one of his properties is hosting a prostitution ring. For some messed-up reason, though, this isn’t my most pressing concern. The kid’s life is messy, I’m certain; I just don’t want to hear it’s that kind of messy.
“Not yet, that I know of.”
As I puzzle over her vague reply, we both watch Dimmy roll his narrow hips in an absently come-hither manner. He never visually engages with the guys clustered at his feet. Some are reaching for him, and others toss cash into an orange plastic bucket sloppily marked “PAWS OFF MY TIPS!” But it’s as if Dimmy is alone, dancing in front of his bedroom window.
“I thought you said I could pay to, you know, spend time with him,” I say.
She lets loose a twitchy spurt of laughter. “That’s the rumor on the street, but I shouldn’t have opened my mouth. And believe me, I squawked at least a dozen times over at city hall about how Gregory was using free child labor. Cirillo must have some city official in his pocket because nothing was ever done about it.”
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Award-winning gay romance author and mother of four, Mia Kerick, knows that a satisfying romance novel is riddled with challenges. For true love to prevail, the leading men are going to have to put in some effort. But the HEA is oh-so rewarding.
From Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester to Brokeback Mountain’s Ennis and Jack, Mia has a great affinity for the tortured hero in literature. Her contemporary gay romance focuses on such steamy tropes as hurt/comfort, forbidden love, and enemies/friends to lovers. She firmly believes that sometimes you have to break his heart to save him. In Kerick’s books, the course of true love truly never does run smooth.
Mia’s books have been featured in Kirkus Reviews magazine. They have won a 2019 IPPY GOLD award for Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction, a 2018 YA GOLD MOONBEAM Children’s Book Award, a YA Readers’ Favorite Award, several Gold Rainbow Awards in YA and adult categories, a Reader Views’ Book by Book Publicity Literary Award, the Jack Eadon Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama, a YA Indie Fab Award, a First Place Royal Dragonfly Award for Cultural Diversity, a First Place Story Monsters Purple Dragonfly Award, and more. Mia cheers for each and every victory made in the name of human rights. Her only major regret: never having taken typing or computer class in school, destining her to a life consumed with two-fingered pecking and constant prayer to the Gods of Technology.
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