Chapter 4

“Just because I’m engaged to his daughter doesn’t mean I’m the same kind of man as him.” Ryan likes Mr. Anderson most of the time, but they have very different views. There’s a reason why Katie asked him to play boyfriend all those years ago, then fiancé. Her father would never approve of her doing anything other than dating and marrying a hetero white guy with a good job.

“You said he was like a father to you,” Ian points out.

“We don’t always like our fathers, and we don’t always want to be like them.” Ryan certainly doesn’t want to be anything like his own father, who’d not only taken off when Ryan was five with his secretary, but had seriously embezzled funds from his work partners and clients.

“That’s true enough. Stay if you like, little Raven. It’s no skin off my nose, but I think there’s something else you don’t know about this bar that might make you want to take flight.”