RELEASE TOUR: Broken Promises by Oliver Takely
The final chapter. The ultimate test. The fight for love. tear them apart?
Length: 65,000
Series: Soho Knights Book 5 (final in the series)
Prior Reading: recommended but not essential
Genre: contemporary
Tropes: hurt/comfort, age gap, second chances, neurodivergent rep, daddy kink
Trigger/Content Warnings: Talk of childhood abuse, acts of violence, talk of bereavement
Designer: Emily's World of Design
Jason is successful, confident, and unlovable. Living in the heart of Soho with his found family brothers, he masks his trauma with more sass than you can throw glitter at. After love burned him once, he vowed never to let it happen again. One night, one time, no attachments. That’s how he survives and protects his heart.
Patrick knows loss too well. His husband’s sudden death shattered his world, and he believes he’ll never feel that kind of connection again. Then Jason storms into his life. A pint-sized spitfire with haunted eyes. Fifteen years younger than him, a boy who he shouldn’t want but can’t resist. Patrick’s daddy instincts are to hold, to heal, to care, but Jason refuses to be saved.
Their undeniable attraction spans a year of push and pull, as all of Jason’s brothers find their happy endings around him, leaving him with the possibility of being alone, as he has been all his life. When Jason gives into his desire for Patrick, his past mistakes come back to bite him. His ex-husband, a ruthless mob boss, wants him back. And he doesn’t care who gets hurt in the process.
In the explosive final chapter of the Soho Knights series, all the questions will finally be answered. Will everyone’s baby brother, Jason, finally get the happily ever after he truly deserves, or will it come at the price of another devastating loss?
“He’s very cute, although he looks different from how you described him. He’s shorter, for one. More my thing than yours.”
That was true. Patrick had a penchant for short blond guys.
“No, that’s his friend who was with him last night. I think he was called Jason.”
“Jason!” shouted Patrick, without thinking. He was doing this for Sebastian.
Jason spun round, looking at them, and Patrick’s breath hitched. Those piercing blue eyes felt like they were looking into his soul. The guy was breathtaking. Patrick could feel himself getting hard at the thought of pinning down that smaller body and taking him apart over several hours . . . or days if he could. That was new. He hadn’t reacted that way to any other man in a long time.
Patrick signalled for him to join them before he changed his mind. Perhaps it was a mistake inviting him over, given his reaction to the cutie.
“What are you doing?” Sebastian hissed.
“Making your dreams come true.” Yes, that’s what he was doing!
Sebastian laughed. Jason sashayed over to them, sipping an extravagant-looking cocktail through a straw.
“Don’t I know you from somewhere?” Jason asked Sebastian. “Have we fucked? Cos I don’t do repeats, although your hot daddy friend is someone I would make an exception for.”
What a little spitfire he was. Patrick had a thing for brats, and he was looking at one right now. Before he could say anything, Jason sat on his lap, draping his arms round his neck.
It was a shock at first. He’d never known a boy to be so forward with him before, and even if he didn’t know it, Jason was pure boy. Patrick had to get Jason off his lap before he did something stupid. He looked at Sebastian, signalling for him to do something, but Sebastian was focussed on his own agenda right now.
“I was here last night with your friend, Charlie,” said Sebastian.
“Charlie isn’t my friend.”
“Oh.”
“He’s my brother.”
Patrick could tell immediately that he was referring to a found family. The way he spoke of Charlie was not sibling love; it was much deeper.
“He came back to my hotel last night, but he left this morning before we could exchange numbers.”
“And?” said Jason.
Patrick was trying hard not to laugh at the mouth on this brat who was wriggling on his lap. It was taking all of Patrick’s willpower to not grind up against him.
Originally from the north, Oliver now resides in the south of England with his husband and their beloved fur baby, who is treated like a princess, living their own happily-ever-after straight out of a romance novel. When not writing or reading, he enjoys holidays and indulging in lots of good food, because who doesn’t love a delicious combination?
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