Eli Bell is the only son of a police chief inspector and a forensic scientist. He's grown up wonky in a world that only deals with the straight and narrow -- and his new boyfriend isn't helping. Rob Hawkes is six feet of muscle, tattoos, and arrest warrants. A career criminal and a former guest of Her Majesty's Prison Service, he'd rather hit Eli's parents than sit down to dinner with them. One wrong move, and Rob could destroy Eli -- and his family -- without a second thought. But this isn't what it looks like. Rob's not in control here -- and Eli's the one to blame.

What It Looks Like

They didn’t move from the gate for some time. 16


The emotional sledgehammer of Rob’s cheque had thrown him for a loop, so for the first couple of hours after their walk, he was simply a little clingy and wanted nothing more than to be left to process it and think. But then, he also didn’t want Rob to get the wrong idea and think he was upset, so Eli opted for staying wound around Rob’s side, and saying nothing at all.


But once the shock died down, the searing gratitude started to rise up again—and on the heels of it, the overshadowed first part of his present. So when the evening had rolled around, the family gathered in the living room with the telly on and Danny playing with the baby in the middle of the floor and looking even goofier than Rob had that morning, Eli found himself itching to steal Rob away upstairs and…fuck.


Chapter 54