Title: Bleeding Like Me
Author: Riley Parks
Release Date: November 21st 2017
Genre: MM Contemporary Dark Romance
Published by: Boroughs Publishing
BLURB
Being gay in their neighborhood is perilous.
Being gay in a street gang is unheard of. Being gay and in love with a man in a
rival gang is a death wish. Through drug addiction, brutality, and seemingly
endless peril, they remain; finding stability within each other that shouldn’t
exist in their volatile world.
BEAUTIFUL
CONTRADICTION
He didn't paint people; the curves of their
bodies and angles of their faces never interested him as much as cityscapes.
The circumstances of his life had compelled him to create new worlds that he
could get lost in rather than reflect the features of the people he ran from.
He constructed buildings from their foundations, making them taller and
stronger than he was. He adorned the edifices with countless windows, always
left open or cracked so hope could pour in and fears could seep out. Tree lined
streets reminded him how to breathe, pumping oxygen through the atmosphere, off
the canvas, and into his lungs.
He didn't paint people until the day he no
longer desired the anonymity of his cities. The streets didn't feel like his
escape anymore, not like him. Cerulean skies gave way to pale blue eyes and bus
routes to pink pouts. Evan didn't paint people until he painted Jackson.
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Exclusive Excerpt
Evan (11:35pm): U around?
Jackson (12:27am): Am now. What?
Evan (12:28am): Finishing up some shit. Fucking horny
Jackson (12:30am): Got 2 hands don’t u? Use 1 of them
Evan (12:32): Wanna C U
Jackson sighed as he stared down at the screen
of his phone, trying to will himself to pull back. Whatever it was between them
couldn’t become a nightly thing. He didn’t want to become wrapped up with a
fucking Klown Killer or, really, any man at all. Men were supposed to be for
fucking, not for anything else, but Jack could feel himself wanting more. He’d
been dealing with massive amounts of bullshit all day, and he found all he had
been able to focus on was the fact that he should have kissed his lover back
when he pecked him good-bye the night before. He should have let him hold his
goddamn hand. He should have allowed himself to get lost in the moment and let
his desires lead his way.
It was too much, too soon. Evan had made
Jackson realize that he could have feelings for a man in a way that didn’t just
center around sex, which was disturbing, to say the least. He didn’t want to be
like this, be gay or whatever. Enjoying getting fucked was one thing, but it
was entirely different to want something more than that from a dude.
No matter how hard he tried to control his
thoughts and emotions, it seemed his mind was intent on going on a journey to
learn what it all meant.
He thought about what could happen if he
denied Evan and played some sort of disingenuous game of hard to get, limiting
himself when he would much rather indulge in the sexy Daywalker. Maybe Evan
would hit up Humboldt to get off, fuck some other dude, and move on. A strange
pang of jealousy made Jackson cringe. He didn’t want Evan with anyone else.
Jack wanted Evan to all to himself.
EXCERPT
He’d never been to Humboldt Park before, but
he heard it had a pretty good scene. When he was unaffiliated, he could get
away with going to the gay spots on the South Side, but now that he was with
the KKz, he had to be more careful. He disembarked and walked the short
distance to the big rock where guys supposedly met. Sitting down on a bench, he
pulled out a cigarette he had bummed off Luis and watched as a couple of queens
made a connection and disappeared into the wooded area a few feet behind the
boulder. He let the filter rest between his lips as he leaned back to stare up
at the moon. It was a waxing crescent that barely glowed against the black
expanse of the sky, making the already poorly lit park even darker.
He peered down at a man who took a seat on the
bench next to him. They sat quietly, Evan’s head still thrown back and the guy
smoking his cigarette as if he hadn’t just propositioned him.
“Nice night,” Evan threw out as if he was
telling the moon rather than the guy beside him.
“Are you looking to chitchat or are you trying
to fuck?” When Evan finally dropped his head, he noticed that the guy was
peering at him with raised eyebrows. They stared for a moment, and without a
doubt, a spark arced between them.
“Depends what you’re into I guess,” Evan
replied, noticing that the man had a perfectly plump pout. He wanted to see what
those lips looked like wrapped around his cock. “I’m not going to bend over.”
“Wouldn’t want you to,” the guy replied with a
sniff, blue eyes dropping to momentarily study the grass before returning to
Evan’s.
“That right?” he questioned, moderately
surprised. Mr. Ready To Hook Up seemed to be tough as fuck, with his sleeve
tattoos and muscular biceps that were perfectly displayed in his gray
sleeveless shirt. Evan knew it was a stereotype that men who exclusively took
cock were soft, but in his experience, more often than not, they had been. He’d
fucked a variety of guys, and there was always some negotiating between him and
a dude who was versatile. This hot motherfucker was clearly a power bottom, a
fact that had Evan’s cock standing up to take notice.
“Need me to spell it out for you, Daywalker?”
he huffed, eyebrows raised in challenge.
Evan shook his head and self-consciously ran
his fingers through his red hair. “So you want to go—” he began.
The guy interrupted by saying, “Show me what
you got.”
Without wasting another second, Evan tossed
his cigarette to the ground and unzipped the fly of his jeans, arching his back
enough to shimmy them, along with his boxer briefs, down his thighs so his hard
cock could spring out. Instinctively, he moved a hand down to the shaft and
started to pump it.
Blue eyes observed every stroke as full lips
smacked subconsciously. “Yeah, I want to fuck,” the guy stated, seemingly
impressed by what Evan was working with. Wordlessly, the hot-as-shit
motherfucker stood up and started walking, leaving Evan scrambling to get his
pants up so he could follow.
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About the Author
Riley has always loved to write, believing that life has the possibility to be its most beautiful when it’s portrayed on the pages of a book. Feeling the need to create and liberate in the midst of the political landscape, Riley writes novels that focus on LGBTQ protagonists, wanting to honor a community that deserves better representation depicting lives, loves and triumphs in all facets of fiction.
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