Book Title: Ride or Die (Food Truck Warriors #6)
Author: Beth Bolden
Publisher: Beth Bolden Books
Cover Artist: Cate Ashwood Designs
Release Date: January 20, 2022
Genre: Contemporary gay romance
Tropes: Bad boy, secret admirer, hookups versus relationships
Themes: Overcoming fear, found family, embracing change
Length: 80 000 words
It is not a standalone story.
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Can Ren’s bad boy heart be wooed and won?
Blurb
Ren Moretti likes his life—and his hookups—just the way they are: fast and loose.
He only ever hooks up with someone once, and relationships? Forget it. Never gonna happen. No guy has ever persuaded him to bend, break, or alter his one date and one night rule.
Until Seth Abramson.
Seth has always tempted Ren—but it’s not a secret that Seth won’t settle for just one night. A few dates won’t cut it, and he’s not interested in playing around. He wants it all, and he intends to win Ren’s heart.
But that’s the one thing Ren’s never given up. He guards it closely and fiercely, until one day, when he realizes it’s no longer his to protect, it’s belonged to Seth all along.
“Okay, fine, I’m mad,” Ren said. Hating that Gabe had suckered him into this, but wondering if maybe . . . if maybe Gabe could actually help him.
After all, Gabe was now a man with some real relationship experience.
Ren didn’t want to consider it, but what else could he do? Continuing on this way was fucking futile.
“Good, now tell me why,” Gabe said, a glimmer of a smile on his face.
“Seth fucking Abramson,” Ren said succinctly. “I asked him to have sex with me again, and he turned me down flat.”
Gabe looked astonished. “You asked him to sleep with you again, and he said no, again?”
“That’s exactly what I just said.” Ren picked his knife back up and began cutting through another onion. It didn’t feel too good to hear the shock in Gabriel’s voice, or to hear the evening’s events repeated back at him, incredulously.
At least Ren wasn’t alone. Gabe couldn’t fucking believe it either.
“You don’t do that, though. Like . . . I thought you’d asked and he said no, and you moved on. And wait, you went on a date last night. Did you break up your date so you could proposition Seth again?”
“We agreed mutually that it wasn’t going to work out,” Ren said, close-lipped. “I didn’t break it up to ask Seth or anything.”
“Ah,” Gabriel said. There was a multitude of opinions in that one single sound.
You, Ren reminded himself, love your cousin. He’s your best friend. Your roommate. Your business partner.
“Just say it,” Ren said.
“Well, again, I thought you’d moved past this?” Gabe leaned against the side of the counter that ran along one side of the truck. “It was . . . well it was some time ago, wasn’t it?”
“Six months ago.”
“Right, six months ago. I guess I didn’t realize you were . . .” Gabe paused, clearly trying to search for the right term. “Crushing on him still?”
“It’s not a crush,” Ren said firmly. Except . . . what else could it be? The man was under his skin. He wanted him. Bad. What else was that except for a crush? An inconvenient affliction of lust?
If it was actually a crush, the first thing he wanted to do was get rid of it.
The second thing he wanted to do was totally smash it dead.
The third and most important thing was to completely annihilate it.
He didn’t need this bullshit in his life.
No, thank you, he’d done perfectly fine without it for the first twenty-six years, and he wasn’t intending to change now.
“I really think it might be a crush,” Gabe said thoughtfully. “You’re kinda hung up on him. Obviously. Unless you’re . . . what? Afraid? Afraid you might like him? Afraid he might really like you? Afraid he might get to know what you’re really like, unlike all these other guys who never stick around long enough to find out?”
“That is complete bullshit,” Ren retorted. “Stop it.”
“Fine, fine, fine,” Gabe said, holding his hands up in faux surrender. “It’s complete bullshit that you’re afraid.”
Ren glared at his cousin. Why was he like this?
Unfortunately there had never been a satisfactory answer to that question.
“I just hate this,” Ren said, annoyed by the sulkiness in his own voice.
A lifelong Pacific Northwester, Beth Bolden has just recently moved to North Carolina with her supportive husband. Beth still believes in Keeping Portland Weird, and intends to be just as weird in Raleigh.
Beth has been writing practically since she learned the alphabet. Unfortunately, her first foray into novel writing, titled Big Bear with Sparkly Earrings, wasn’t a bestseller, but hope springs eternal. She’s published twenty-three novels and seven novellas.
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