Not sure WHAT I'm really in the mood to read, but I suppose crossing something off an older TBR list is better than nothing? Here is Onley James's "Infuriating." It's the fourth novel in her Elite Protection Services series.
["What he fears is love.
JACKSON AVERY has everything in life, except somebody to share it with. But as the owner of one of the largest private security forces in the country, he’s got plenty to keep him busy until he finds ‘the one.’ After spending the last year dealing with the fallout of his best security agents falling for their clients, the last thing Jackson expects is to take one look at feisty camboy, Dayton Daniels, and almost instantly know that he’s it for him.
DAYTON DANIELS has been on his own since he was just fourteen years old. He’s spent his entire life scraping by, doing whatever’s necessary to survive. A severe learning disability has left Day unable to read and forced him to find creative ways to make a living. Camming allows him to earn money while keeping his clients at a distance, and Day has grown used to keeping everybody at a distance...until he witnesses a murder and Jackson Avery walks into his life.
Guarding Day is supposed to be a favor, a simple off the books job until they find out who killed a prominent attorney, but Jackson quickly realizes there is nothing simple about Day. He’s beautiful, smart, surprising, and Jackson is all in merely ten minutes after they meet. But Day, he can’t imagine a man like Jackson wanting to spend his life with somebody like him, and he is determined to do anything to send Jackson running in the opposite direction, no matter how much it hurts.
When Day starts receiving threatening emails, Jackson enlists his team to hunt down the killer. Day doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life living in fear, but every day he’s with Jackson, he falls a little harder, forming cracks in the walls he’s worked so hard to build up around himself. Can Jackson solve a murder and find a way past Day’s defenses to convince him there is such a thing as love at first sight and that everybody deserves a happily ever after, even him?"]
Like, how can each MC in this series get progressively more traumatized? How can their lives get worse than the last book (objectively speaking--seriously trauma isn't comparable)? Holy. Shit.
I mean, the blurb wasn't wrong. Jackson all but said "yes, sir, I'll take that one" (about, and I QUOTE, "that twinky ball of rage"). And Day tried his fucking damned to make Jackson run (the things he did/said in front of Jackson's mother, wow).
BUT you can only run from fate so far and so hard, because fate doesn't care about your feelings or your trauma or your stalker. No, fate says "you're in love, you twisted fuckers". And then its so. That and the twisted family at Elite Protection Services makes sure you get your happily ever after (with a large side of intrusive but loving found family members).
Trigger Warnings: stalking, past childhood emotional abuse, past childhood sexual trauma, on-page violence, assault, attempted rape, and more.
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