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Beautifully Fractured by Michele Lenard

Front Range University, Book 1

Ever have someone get you so well it’s like looking in a mirror?

Cruz
Starting over is not what I had planned.

Those stories about magically becoming best friends with the person assigned to live with you… Yeah, that won’t be me. I already have a best friend. Even if I wanted a new one, Liam wouldn’t be it. He’s permanently grouchy, carrying a negative energy I don’t need since I’m finally in a good place. But I’ve never been good at ignoring when people need help, so I paste on a smile and play nice.

Predictably, Liam isn’t much of a talker, but after an unexpected accident he needs my help in other ways. Ways that offer me answers about myself. Ways that raise new questions about the football dreams I’ve been chasing since I was a kid. Ways that make me relive the past I want to ignore.

To say I’m confused is an understatement, but there’s one thing I know for certain…Liam is either the key to one door or the bolt that could prevent another from ever opening. And I have to choose which I want him to be.

Liam
Starting over is exactly what I need.

I can’t get any more invisible than I’ve been for the past few years, and I figure rooming with another person means at least one human on the planet can’t ignore me. Unfortunately, that human is Adonis personified, and not gay, so it’s looking like my invisibility streak might continue.

Then I suffer a minor accident, and Cruz’s hero complex comes out in full force.

I should be grateful to have someone to open my door and carry my books, but when you pair his selfless personality with that body… My mind starts to blur the roommate line, which makes his blur the line of not being gay.

My heart is already battered, and I doubt it can take rejection from the one person who broke down all the walls I’d built around it. That doesn’t mean I won’t try to give it to him anyway.

**Beautifully Fractured is a high-heat MM romance with medium angst that features a grumpy/sunshine relationship, forced proximity, hurt/comfort situations and a bi-awakening. This is book one in a series of interconnected standalones. Though the main characters are athletes, this is not a sports romance. Rather, it’s a romance that happens to feature people who play sports.

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“Did you take your pain pills tonight?” Cruz asks, ever the caregiver.

“Yup.” Don’t turn around and look at him.

“And you’ve got the doctor tomorrow, right? Need me to take you?”

“I’ve got it.” I rummage through my dresser drawer, pretending to look for something. Don’t think about him shirtless.

“What about your laundry? I can do yours with mine tomorrow.”

“All good, thanks.” The drawer bangs shut when I close it harder than intended. Don’t think about how nice he’s being.

“Seriously, it’s no big deal. I’m already doing a load so it’s no trouble, and it’ll save you from having to lift a basket with your bad arm.”

“Really, I’m fine.” Don’t think about loads. Shooting loads, swallowing loads… Ah shit. He’s coming over here.

“Liam, didn’t we agree you were gonna let me help out?” His velvety voice feels like a warm blanket, and I fight the urge to shiver under its timbre.

“Only if I needed it. I don’t need it.” Did my voice just crack?

“How are you going to carry your laundry with a cast?” He’s so close I can feel his body heat at my back, smell the spice of his body wash.

“That’s next week’s problem, hero.” Ohmigod I’m so hard, I literally feel dizzy.

“Hero?” Cruz puts his hand on my shoulder and spins me to face him, and it’s so unexpected I don’t have time to step back. My obnoxiously hard cock smacks him right in the hip, and as my eyes grow wide with embarrassment his Adam’s apple bobs on a thick swallow.

For a minute, neither of us moves. Neither of us speak. We just sort of exist in this weird fragment of time where we can almost pretend that didn’t just happen as long as we don’t acknowledge it.

I’ve heard the expression silence is deafening, but I can honestly say that’s bullshit. Silence is loud. So loud I can’t even hear my own breathing. That, or I’m not breathing at all.

 

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About the Author:

Hi! I’m Michele-or at least that’s the name I write under-because my parents and my kids are not allowed to read my books. Ever. Though sports romance is my guilty pleasure, I like to dabble in all MM tropes. My books are set in my home state of Colorado, because to me the mountains are the only thing that can compete with a good book. My favorite food is Mexican, my favorite shoes are flip-flops, and my drink of choice is whiskey, the same as virtually every character I’ve ever written.

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