Unapologetic

By AG Meiers

Pushing everyone away is the perfect solution to keep your heart safe, right? Well, but what if someone slips past the defensive walls...

Even on his best day Darren doesn’t do nice, and he doesn’t like people. His family is the only exception from the rule. So when his shifty brother-in-law steals from them and leaves Darren’s pregnant sister behind—all on Darren’s watch—he blames himself for the fallout. He failed. No need to talk about it. Trespassers beware.

A homeless Carlo stumbles into Darren’s life and the instant attraction catches both men completely by surprise. Carlo has had bad luck galore, but he won’t let it drag him down. He is summer sunshine to Darren’s raging storms.

But when it turns out that Carlo isn’t quite as carefree as he seems, Darren has a decision to make: Take the risk to let Carlo in or lose him completely.

Unapologetic is a hurt/comfort contemporary m/m romance with a twist and the first steamy short story in the “He is the One” series. There’s a soulmate for everyone, but sometimes love takes courage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
• Release date: Aug 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005061142

Book preview

He Is The One:

Unapologetic

AG Meiers

Unapologetic

Copyright © 2021, AG Meiers

Published by Painted Hearts Publishing

Smashwords Edition

About the Book You Have Purchased

All rights reserved. Without reserving the rights under copyright, reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or any other means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. Such action is in violation of the U.S. Copyright Law.

Unauthorized reproduction of distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

Unapologetic

Copyright © 2021 AG Meiers

ISBN: 9781005061142

Author: AG Meiers

Editor: Connie Baker

Publication Date: August 5, 2021

All cover art and logo copyright © 2021 by Painted Hearts Publishing

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

He Is The One:

Unapologetic

Pushing everyone away is the perfect solution to keep your heart safe, right? Well, but what if someone slips past the defensive walls…

Even on his best day Darren doesn’t do nice, and he doesn’t like people. His family is the only exception from the rule. So when his shifty brother-in-law steals from them and leaves Darren’s pregnant sister behind—all on Darren’s watch—he blames himself for the fallout. He failed. No need to talk about it. Trespassers beware.

A homeless Carlo stumbles into Darren’s life and the instant attraction catches both men completely by surprise. Carlo has had bad luck galore, but he won’t let it drag him down. He is summer sunshine to Darren’s raging storms.

But when it turns out that Carlo isn’t quite as carefree as he seems, Darren has a decision to make: Take the risk to let Carlo in or lose him completely.

Unapologetic is a hurt/comfort contemporary m/m romance with a twist and the first steamy short story in the He is the One series. There’s a soulmate for everyone, but sometimes love takes courage.

He Is The One:

Too Thankful For You

A gorgeous guy showing up on your doorstep unexpectedly should be a dream come true, right? Well, not if it’s your boyfriend’s ex…

A home invasion that killed his parents wrecked Xander's sense of security. After a few rough years, he's finally found happiness with his boyfriend, Greyson, in an old farmhouse north of Boston.

On the weekend before Thanksgiving, Greyson's ex from college shows up uninvited. Reminiscing of glory days is tedious at best. But when the ulterior motive for the reunion is exposed, it fuels Xander’s hidden fears. Could Greyson ever get tired of living with Xander’s anxieties?

Suddenly, he finds himself questioning a lot of things he took for granted and realizes that the biggest threat to happily ever after is not the ex at the doorstep, but the secrets both men have been keeping from each other.

Xander and Greyson have a few years of love and happiness on their side, but will it be enough to hold them together?

Too Thankful for You, a contemporary m/m romance, is the second short story in the He is the One series. There’s a soulmate for everyone, but sometimes love needs honesty. Trigger warning: In this story one main character struggles with alcohol addiction.

He Is The One:

Unapologetic

Chapter One

I’d been watching the guy try to select a nutritious breakfast from the grubby choices at the gas station for the last twenty minutes. He seemed to be memorizing the labels of every goddamn candy bar in stock. Watching him was no hardship. He was easy on the eyes, with a mop of sun-kissed light brown curls, nice shoulders, and a v-shaped frame. Lean, but not scrawny.

I don’t like my men fragile. Having inherited my father’s height, and after fifteen years in construction, I bulked up quite a bit. If a guy was too skimpy, I felt like a brute, so I steered clear of fragile or jail bait. Cutie here was neither. I probably had only a few inches on him and I estimated his age to be mid-twenties, so no reason to stop enjoying the show as he bent down and studied another packaged snack from a lower shelf. His jeans rode low, hugging his ass just as they should, but hands down, his best feature was his lips—full, soft, ridiculously lush. Focused on his research project, he’d pulled his lower lip between his teeth to chew on it, and as a result it was flushed red and glistening with spit.

I leaned back in