Stealing My Father's Lover

By Brendol James

After Chris's father dies, he realizes he has feelings for his father's boyfriend - the one who took him in when his father went off on tour. With college looming and his father's sudden return from the dead - Chris struggles to win over the man he loves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.B. Black
• Release date: Jul 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005597368

Brendol James

M/M with sex and romance. These boys are falling head over heels, and they're doing it in sexy style.

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STEALING MY FATHER’S LOVER

M/M Erotic Romance

Brendol James

Stealing My Father’s Lover by Brendol James

This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and events are fictitious in every regard. Any similarities to actual events and persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental. Any trademarks, service marks, product names, or named features are only for reference. There is no implied endorsement if any of these terms are used.

STEALING MY FATHER’S LOVER

Copyright © 2018 Brendol James

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Chapter One

After the funeral, Sean kept away. More days than not, he only came back to sleep, leaving Chris wondering why his father’s boyfriend had even bothered to take him in. He was already eighteen – fresh out of high school and waffling with indecision, so when his father had gone back overseas on another tour in Afghanistan, Sean had shrugged, offered Chris a place around, and when the men came with a flag, Sean didn’t say anything, so Chris stayed. He didn’t have anywhere else to go after all.

Adam, Sean’s brother, helped. He attended the same university that Chris planned to enter in the fall, but in the height of July, that hardly offered him any comfort. Sean still bought the food Chris liked. Adam helped him get the paperwork in order. Dad wasn’t rich, but his life insurance and everything else meant tuition wouldn’t be a problem, and Sean didn’t seem like he planned to kick him out any time soon.

He’ll come around, Adam promised.

It should have been enough. The awkward tension – the jokes – staring at the face of the man his father loved and measuring the distance between them as shorter than that between Sean and his father. What did a twenty-six-year-old man see in a forty-year-old?

Sean might’ve proven his love. Dedication, sacrifice – they were the backbones of both men. It should have been enough. Sean had taken care of him. Watched out for him, and that had irked him before, but without that care – Chris found himself even more frustrated. It was as if the two year relationship between himself and Sean hadn’t mattered the second his father passed, and maybe not even having a body to bury made it all worse. Still, Adam and Sean kept a roof over his head.

It should have been enough. Love was love after all. When he was little, his mother had loved him. Before the cancer, it had been the two of them, but then Dad came home from war, and Mom got sick. Bit by bit, they fell apart, and then the two of them had to relearn to be a family. When Sean came around, the wounds had been scars between them, but nothing sat right about the two of them together. Adam treated Chris like a little brother, and Chris thought of him like an elder brother in return, but Sean hadn’t been weird – hadn’t tried to be another father – he didn’t force Chris, but as friendly as Sean tried to be, he didn’t feel like a brother either.

Most days, the promise that Sean would one day find a way to exist in a world without Chris’s Dad – without James, most days that was