Rent Due, Daddy

He's three months behind on rent. His grumpy, silver fox landlord is ready to collect—but he doesn't want his money.

Eli I'm a twenty-four-year-old tattoo artist surviving on dollar store ramen and sheer panic. At four in the morning, I'm sneaking down the stairs to slide a pathetic partial payment under my landlord's door, praying he doesn't kick me out into the freezing winter. I'm broke, anxious, and carrying enough baggage from my past to fill a freight train. I expected an eviction notice. I definitely didn't expect Ronan Hale to pull me inside, wrap me in a blanket, and offer me an entirely different kind of arrangement. He wants to take care of me. But trusting a wealthy, older man who calls me "good boy" feels like the most dangerous thing I could possibly do.

Ronan I'm forty-eight, divorced, and I've spent the last six years guarding my peace in the quiet isolation of my building. I don't get involved. I fix the boiler, I collect the rent, and I keep my distance. But the moment I catch my shivering, exhausted young tenant trying to slip me an envelope of crumpled cash, every protective instinct I possess violently wakes up. Eli is bruised, defensive, and running on empty. He needs a soft place to land. He needs a firm hand, a hot meal, and someone to show him what he's actually worth.

He thinks I'm doing him a favor. He doesn't realize he's the only thing I've been waiting for.

Rent Due, Daddy is a high-heat, deeply emotional MM romance featuring a possessive, fiercely protective older man, a resilient younger man learning to surrender, praise kink, hurt/comfort, and a guaranteed happily ever after.