I've been meaning to catch up on (binge-read) the rest of Romeo Alexander's works for a while now. I just realized that most of the Men of Fort Dale novels are relatively short, so here's to binge-ing. "Trust Me, I Hate You" is the second book in the series
["Love and hate are not opposites, but sometimes they’re born from the same fire…
Sean: Soldiers die, that’s just how it goes. It’s different when it’s one of your brothers. Team Maelstrom, my team, was broken when we lost one of our own. And now we have to sit around Stateside while the men in charge figure out what to do with us. When they find a replacement, I immediately know it’s not going to work. I can’t deal with this pain in the ass. I want him gone. It looks like I’m stuck with him, but I don’t have to make it easy…
Aidan: I didn’t ask for this, I don’t want this. I’ve been thrown into this dysfunctional team with a team leader who’s out to get me. The guy’s an ass, and he’s driving me crazy. I can hardly think straight when I’m dealing with him. Then everything changes when he pins me to a wall and kisses me…
Before Sean and Aidan can figure out what to do about that kiss, Team Maelstrom is thrown from the frying pan into the freezer. Fear and peril changes people, but will it change these two hot military men enough to keep the team alive? Can they work things out between them and get everyone back home in one piece? And what about the future?"]
These two. My fucking goodness. Sean obviously was grieving and dealing with his own shit (and ego), and Aidan obviously was reeling from his past choices (done by him and to him) and dealing with new challenges (and his ego). Neither of them wanted to back down or admit they were wrong...until the hate sex happened.
Immediately after, they're sent into a training exercise (spoiler alert--though, now it makes sense why the blurb said "into the freezer") where...well, you'll just have to read it and find out, now, won't you? ;)
Either way, these two went from literally fighting it out (in the sparing ring, to the training grounds, to the infirmary (Doc Dean!!)) to laughing it out with the team (plus a spicy, sex marathon, getting take out instead of cooking, never putting pants on, lust bubble).
Trigger Warnings: PTSD, war-zone, death of a team member, attempt at using rank/station to get sex, and more.
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