CLOSE ENOUGH

Book Three in the Homework & HEAT series
Tagline

He said it was just sex. The hunger said otherwise. Then his twin landed, and the past stopped waiting outside.

Jaylen spent Book Two trying to survive the leftover.
The marks Kairo left faded. The feeling didn't. Marcus was supposed to be the safe choice - until an unlocked phone and a name named Jason turned safety into another secret. Jaylen ended it. Gave his body back to Kairo one rough night and kept his chest locked. Called it sex. Sent him home. Told him not to come unless he was invited.
Kairo heard a beginning.Now Kairo is off his sister's lease, close enough to idle in a parking lot and leave notes in a mailbox. Tia knows too much and still chooses Jaylen. Marcus is trying to be a friend with his hands to himself. And Jaylen is trying to live like a man who learned.
Then the airport doors open.
Malik is Jaylen's twin - same face, bigger body, military since Jaylen started college. Not gay. Tattoos, beard, waves, a fresh cut, and a stare that clocks a lie from across baggage claim. He grew up with their aunt after the family split. Tia and Marcus have never seen him. They don't know the father story lives in two sons at once.
Jaylen goes to pick his brother up thinking blood might be the one thing in his life that doesn't want to own him.He is wrong about how quiet a homecoming can stay.
Because Jason is no longer just a name on a screen.

Because Kairo does not need Tia's hallway anymore.

Because Malik is about to walk into a city already crowded with men who think they know Jaylen.

And because "just sex" only works until somebody new is sleeping on the couch and asking why his brother's eyes keep going to the curb.
Dark MM college romance. Obsession vs blood. Secrets that survive the people who try to bury them.