ᴋᴀᴅᴇɴ never once thought he would fall in love with his best friend's father. He met Gabriel at his lowest, when bleeding from abandonment, raised by addiction and starving for safety. What began as comfort turned into something he didn't have words for, something he tried to ignore and failed to escape. ɢᴀʙʀɪᴇʟ ᴄᴏꜱᴛᴀ never once thought he would fall in-love with his daughter's best friend. Forty, tattooed and carved from iron and violence, he saw Kaden the night he stumbled black-out drunk into his bed. A mistake Kaden fled from. A memory he buried and a sin neither of them spoke of. Until now. At Gabriel's daughter's twenty-first birthday party, Kaden finds himself under Gabriel's watch. Surrounded by mafia kings, and secrets, he drinks out of spite... only to catch the eye of someone who looks exactly like him. Someone who vanishes before Kaden can ask a single question. As Kaden spirals deeper into alcohol and danger, Gabriel pulls him away from every risk, every stranger, every dare, every chance at forgetting, with a possessiveness he can't explain and Kaden can't resist. But the truth is darker than either of them knows. Because Kaden's past isn't lost. It's hidden. And the man who saved him from one disaster, may be the one dragging him toward another. MM | Dark Romance | Mafia | Age Gap | Long-Lost-Brother #1 in mxm - 05/01/26 #7 in Possessive - 06/01/26 #2 in longlostbrother - 07/01/26 #3 in lgbtlove - 18/01/26 #3 in gayromance - 31/03/26 #4 in bxblove - 10/04/26 A/N: This is very fast paced x

𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙔 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙎𝙀𝙓 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚-𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡. One blooms in sweat-soaked sheets, the other in blood-soaked earth. The difference? One's a whisper, the other, a scream. SPINOFF (Ryder & Carmello) #1 Gayness 11/08/2025 #1 Alphaxomega 11/16/2025