Twenty years of service. Five deployments. One order his body won’t follow: don’t want this.
Sergeant Major Ray Castillo joined the Army at eighteen to escape a small town where boys who stared too long at the quarterback’s shoulders got beaten or buried. The military gave him structure, purpose, brotherhood, and a very specific rule. DADT was repealed years before he retired, but Ray’s personal policy never changed. Twenty years of showers with men, bunking with men, loving men with a ferocity he called unit cohesion because the other word would have ended him.
Six months retired. The structure is gone. The brotherhood is gone. What’s left is a man in a quiet apartment with a body trained to follow every order except the one it’s been screaming since he was nineteen.
His guide, Kenji, is a former military spouse. Eight years married to a soldier. He knows the language, the cadence, and that “I’m fine” means “I’m dying.” Tonight, Ray gets a new mission.
COM/MANDED is a dark, explicit MM first time romance featuring a straight-to-gay awakening, anonymous guided encounter, and a soldier who finally receives the order his body has been waiting twenty years to follow. Book 16 in The Back Room series. Standalone. 18+.
Content Note: Explicit MM scenes, first-time gay experience, institutional setting, military discipline meeting surrender, and a man who sleeps without dreaming of the desert for the first time. No fade to black.
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