Stripped by TJ Harding

TREVOR
Stepbrother. Rival. The one person I’ve spent ten years and a war trying to forget.
I came back to Roan for my father’s funeral and stayed because my stepmother asked me to. It’s only temporary.
But Cole is here. Still golden, still closed off, still setting my body on fire just by breathing. And I am losing the twenty-year battle I’ve been fighting with myself.
We survived my father. We survived me leaving. But can we survive the reunion?

COLE
I know what I want. I’ve always known. I just decided, a long time ago, that wanting Trevor was the fastest way to lose him.
Now he’s back, bumping into me, sleeping on the other side of a thin wall, and looking better despite years of battle and battering.
Roan is swallowing girls whole, and the sheriff isn’t lifting his finger. I need someone I can trust. I need someone who won’t flinch.
I need someone who’s hardened by battle.
I need him. I’m just not ready to say it out loud.
Not yet.