Asa
For eight years, I've lived in the shadow of my golden child stepbrother. Dex is everything our parents want in a son, and I'm the weirdo who can't seem to get his life together.
After getting renovicted from my apartment, I'm forced to ask Dex for help. He agrees to let me stay with him while I find a new place, but neither of us is happy about it. Then I accidentally discover that my perfect stepbrother has an online side gig, and I learn how lucrative it can be.
Working together is supposed to be a way to make some extra cash, but it's impossible to keep things in the business zone when I start to realize that maybe Dex is just as misunderstood and lonely as me.
Dex
The only downside to moving home after college is that I can't avoid my stepbrother anymore. Asa is one of the most aggravating people I've ever met, and he's spent the last eight years letting me know exactly what he thinks of me.
After agreeing to let him stay with me so he doesn't end up homeless, he accidentally finds out about my online job. No one else knows my secret, but instead of using it against me, he suggests we work together as a solution to his money problems and my desire to get him out of my apartment as quickly as possible.
I already know this is going to be messy, but I'm not prepared for how difficult it is to keep our arrangement impersonal. And the more I learn about my closed-off stepbrother, the more I realize that maybe we aren't so different after all.
Asa and Dex's story is an opposites-attract stepbrother romance between a jock and a nerd who can't keep things in the business zone. You can expect dislike to friends to lovers, hurt/comfort, found family, online spicy times, reluctant roommates, some snark, lots of heat, and all the feels as these two men realize that sometimes the person you need is someone you shouldn't want. It is book four in the Legacy Mechanics series, but can be enjoyed as a standalone.
Contains mature content. A complete list of content warnings can be found on the author's website.