Homework & Aftermath

Jaylen thought he was just helping his friend Tia with college homework. He never expected her older brother.
Kairo is everything dangerous wrapped in one man-tall, dark, tattooed, a dreadhead with a full beard and a quiet intensity that feels like a threat and a promise at the same time. What starts as charged stares and unspoken tension turns into something far more consuming. Kairo doesn't ask for Jaylen. He claims him. Fully. Obsessively. Possessively. Late nights turn into rules, marks, and a relationship built on control that Jaylen doesn't know how to escape... and isn't sure he wants to.
Until the night Kairo crosses a line that forces Jaylen to finally say no.
Three months later, the bruises have faded. The silence from Kairo has held. Jaylen is trying to rebuild something quieter and safer with Marcus-the old crush who came back changed, softer, and still carrying years of unspoken feelings. But healing isn't linear, and the past doesn't always stay where you leave it.
Homework & Aftermath is a dark-to-healing MM romance about obsession, the cost of being claimed, and the slow, fragile work of learning how to belong to yourself again.