The Bench Beside Mine — Ebook
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He keeps buying a second coffee for the wife who left. The dad on the bench beside him drinks it. MM romance by Milo Hart. Tropes: Divorced dads · Friends to lovers · Co-coaches · First time with a man · One bed. 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno · EPUB ebook · Adults 18+
Description
He keeps buying a second coffee for the wife who left. The dad on the bench beside him drinks it.
Peter Lyle brings the spare water bottle, the signed forms, Band-Aids in three sizes, and a second coffee he keeps buying for a wife who divorced him fourteen months ago.
Then Dev Malhotra drops onto the bench beside him, drinks it, and saves him a seat every Saturday after.
Dev is everything Peter isn’t. Loud. Easy. Built like he hauls goalposts for fun. A devoted dad so scared of becoming the optional parent that he plans every weekend like a cruise director. When the coach’s knee gives out and they’re both drafted as assistants, Peter gets three practices a week of Dev’s hands, Dev’s laugh, and Dev’s soaked T-shirt in a very small equipment shed.
Peter has known he’s bisexual since he was nineteen. He has never done anything about it.
So he makes a list. It’s ranked.
They have two kid-free nights a week, one king bed at an overnight coaching clinic, and a buttoned-up accountant who turns out to give very precise orders. The sex is the easy part.
The hard part is that two fathers falling in love doesn’t make four people a family. Peter is afraid that wanting a new life betrays the one he lost. Dev is afraid of being left outside the next one, so he starts building it before anyone has said yes.
If they want a future, they’ll have to stop treating love like a seat someone else might take.
The Bench Beside Mine is a high-heat contemporary MM romance with divorced dads, friends to lovers, bisexual leads, a first time with a man at thirty-eight, co-coaches, one bed, a ranked list, real kids, decent exes, no cheating, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Alternating first-person POV. Standalone.
Ebook edition. For readers 18+.
Why you’ll love this book
- Two divorced soccer dads drafted as co-coaches
- A buttoned-up accountant × a loud, warm transit planner
- A first time with a man at thirty-eight, and a ranked list of firsts
- One king bed at an overnight coaching clinic
- Polite, precise orders in bed; both men vers
- Real kids, decent exes, a family worth getting right
- No cheating, HEA guaranteed
Ebook edition
Format: Digital EPUB ebook (not a printed or audio edition). Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno. Audience: 18+.
Content notes
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes, including oral sex, anal sex, rimming, a solo scene, phone sex, a light wrist restraint with a safe word, edging, and a semi-public encounter in an empty equipment shed; all on-page sex is between consenting adults). It also includes past infertility, IVF and pregnancy loss (discussed, not on page), divorce and co-parenting, a third-act separation, a hospital birth, alcohol, and strong language. No cheating, no sexual violence, no dub-con. Intended for readers 18+.
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