I've always played by the rules.
My brother's best friend? Untouchable. The straight-arrow guy who's shared beers and backslaps with him since we were kids, the one who looks at me like I'm just another crew member on this gutted renovation site.
Until that scaffold swing. Bodies colliding mid-air, his sweat-drenched chest pinning mine against rattling beams. Dust clouds our faces, but not the heat exploding between us. Straight, he calls himself. I call b******t.
Daylight, we're collaborators. Hammering nails, mapping blueprints under the small-town sun. Reliable. Professional. But night falls, work lights flicker low, and he's there-fists clenched, eyes feral with what he won't name. I break first. Always do. My hand on his neck, pulling him into shadowed corners where splintered wood digs our knees. Anger boils over into thrusts that shake the frame, breaths heaving like the site's dying groans. He fights it, denies it, but his body betrays him every time-hard, urgent, unraveling into mine.
This craving? It's treachery. Betraying the brotherhood that raised us, torching his reputation if whispers hit the crew. One wrong groan amid the sawdust, one glance too long across the site, and his world's scaffold collapses. Mine too. The man who swore he'd never bend for another guy now begs with his hips. I know the cost. Loyalty's my blood. But tasting his surrender-salty skin, muffled curses-makes rules feel like chains.
What if I push too far? Shatter him for good?
A full-length friends to lovers best friend's sibling bi awakening erotic romance featuring a straight contractor's forbidden awakening and his sibling's controlled obsession.
