Maniac (Necessary Evils, #7)

by Onley James

“I hate you sometimes,” Aiden told him, voice raw. “So much I feel like I’m choking on it.”

Because he didn’t just love Aiden. He was in love with him. Had been for longer than he’d ever admit to another soul, even himself.

“Don’t you get it? The only person who haunts my thoughts is you, Aiden. You’re in my head. Every day. A million times a day,” he admitted, taking a step closer. “At any given moment, at any time of day, you’re the ghost standing just out of view.”

That was the man he knew. The man he loved. That was Thomas fucking Mulvaney.

“I’m not leaving you. And I’m not letting you leave me. I can’t,” Aiden said. “I know myself. And I know if you deny me again, it will literally become my villain origin story. I will go full-on scorched earth, Tommy. I’ll become the monster you feared your sons would be.”