Still a slight detour from my most recent reading plans, but at least this book/series is on one of my TBR lists. Here's Charli Meadows's "Bad Boy." It's the second novel in her Loyal Boys series.
["Linc
This small town is stifling, and my parents are overbearing. They only care about how others perceive us and sustaining the family legacy. I’m drowning from the pressure they’ve placed on me to be the perfect son, have perfect grades, and wear perfect, preppy clothes. No parties, no friends, no trouble, and certainly no fun.
But everything changes when chaos storms into town in the form of Remington Michaels. The mysterious and dangerous new kid everyone is whispering about. They say he killed someone at his old school. That he’s a brutal fighter. But I don’t believe it. Not with the way he’s always there—protecting me, watching me, touching me.
I have no idea what’s brewing between us, but I’m helpless to stop it when we find ourselves sharing a cabin and becoming friends with benefitsall in the first week. You see, he really is a bad boy. But maybe, just maybe, I could be good for him.
Remi
After getting arrested and expelled from my old school in Detroit, Mom had no choice but to move us back to her hometown. Somewhere I’ve never even been. And we’re staying with my eccentric grandpa, whom I’ve never even met.
This new neighborhood—this new school—isn’t what I expected for a place tucked deep in the mountains of North Carolina. The elitism, the bullies, the social structures—I want no part of it. But then I meet the shy, stumbling Lincoln Anderson. He ignites something inside of me, and I’m drawn to him—his goodness, his quiet resolution. I can’t leave him alone. Won’t leave him alone. Even when an unknown threat from my past endangers everything.
I’m no stranger to putting my fists up, and it doesn’t take long to decide that I’ll wreck anyone who steps near Linc. The thing is, he doesn’t want me to. They say I’m a bad boy, but I think maybe I could be good for him."]
These two sweet boys are both very broken. They have scars and secrets and shames that the never told anyone about. Until that love-at-first-sight connection-of-all-connections moment where they met and they realized that their damage matched. They were both there for each other as they confronted their pasts, their presents, and their futures. It was hard (see the trigger warnings below), but together, they figured it out.
God, these two were so soft for each other (in the best of ways). They were in love well before they were even beginning to accept that love was possible. Which was maybe 50% in. A lot of shit still had to take place before their happily ever after (trigger warnings). But they did, with each other by their side as well as their new friends and found families.
Trigger Warnings: violence, fighting, bullying, parental neglect, homophobia, brief flashbacks to past parental abuse, past unsupported parents, and more
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