
Today’s teaser comes from Pride (Single Dads 6)
** 14 days to go ** – https://rjscott.co.uk/read-pride
“Calm down! Calm down!” I repeated and directed it at both of them, but neither of them were listening, and the drill whined as it caught and the next bolt loosened. The whole weight of the barrier shifted, and Grundig stepped back, hands raised. I glanced at my car right under the barrier, and regretted not moving it back, because this barrier was coming down any second now.
“I don’t get paid enough for this!” Grundig yelled and stalked back to the cabin, slamming the door behind him. Tudor was breathing hard, temper and determination in every line of him, and he shoved the drill hard against the last bolt holding everything together.
“No one keeps me prisoner!” he shouted at the cabin. “No on. You hear me?”
“You can stop now,” I shouted over the noise of the drill, but Tudor was in a world of his own.
“They’re stealing everything, destroying it all, my home, my family!”
I tried to grapple the drill from him, but I’d seen him battle against Grundig, and he was stronger than he looked, and in the end there was nothing I could do as the last bolt came away. Tudor stared at it in his hand, holding it as as gentle as he might do a baby bird, his tears slowing, and then he stared up at me, blinking, shocked, as if he couldn’t make sense of what he’d just done. I waited for the barrier to move, but it rested where it was, balanced enough not to fall.
“It’s not a prison! It’s my home! It’s mine, it’s everyone’s…” He blinked at me, I patted his shoulder, not quite knowing what to say. I had all the standard answers, the concern, the understanding, but this was raw, and with every tear that tracked down his weathered face, I doubled down on the promise to myself that I wouldn’t let this story die. At least I didn’t have to worry about the barrier slamming on my car as it rested in the support, rocking in a gentle motion.
“I’m putting it up!” Grundig yelled from the cabin, and the words didn’t make sense, until the barrier groaned, and then everything went to shit.
Pride
A blazing connection between single dads from opposite sides of the tracks is fraught with secrets and lies, and a happily ever after is impossible, unless they take a chance on love.
Saved a long time ago by a man who saw a diamond in the rough, Logan is a single dad and the owner of Redcars Automotive, a haven for those in need. With custody of his daughter under scrutiny, his life is upended when a journalist looking for a story slips into his life without him realizing. Logan doesn’t want Gray more than once, but when sharing the secrets of his past won’t get the journalist to leave, what else can he do?
After blaming himself for missing signs that his son was ill, Gray feels Ben is safer with his ex-wife and her new pediatrician husband. With a heart heavy with guilt, and his documentary company failing to find a story, he’s searching for some spark in his life to fix everything. When a series of arson attempts draws him to Los Angeles, he meets the secretive, scarred, and tattooed Logan, who makes him an offer that Gray knows he should refuse.
This opposites-attract love story features two single dads reaching a crossroads in life, angst, secrets, arson, intimidation, and a found family so tightly connected that nothing can break it apart.
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