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Tender

The Beginning of Always, Book 4

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Tender

By: E.M. Lindsey
Narrated by: Iggy Toma
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There Miles stood…

Relationship over.

No car.

No place to live.

And no hope for his future.

And then a gorgeous, avenging angel appears. And not just any angel. The father of his ex-girlfriend. But it can't mean what Miles wants it to mean, right? After all, Emmett is married to an equally gorgeous man: a pediatric cardiac surgeon with abs of steel and a glare that could melt diamonds.

There isn't a chance in hell Miles is getting involved with them. Not even when Emmett and Cosimo take him in. Not even when they start flirting.

Not even when he starts realizing their relationship dynamic is not what he thought it was.

Emmett and Cosimo are the actual dream. A fantasy he conjured up once when he was lonely and not sure anyone was going to want him for who he was. But the more he gets to know the pair, the more he starts to have hope.

And hope is a dangerous thing.

As Miles starts to crack and he feels himself start giving in to their attention, he realizes that his own salvation might come at the hands of sharp tongues, tender hands, and the promise of an absolute happily ever after.

Tender is the fourth and final book of the Beginning of Always series. It features a sunshine nerdy scientist with needs he keeps to himself, a grumpy surgeon who just wants the people he loves to be happy, a nervous, deaf grad student who isn't used to getting what he wants, falling for your ex's dads, power dynamics, high spice, high swoon, and a triple happily ever after.

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This performer always hits perfectly. I love the continuation of this series. I did 4 stars because I felt like the book was a little short. The story feels like it was cut off and not enough of the new dynamic and where Miles personally was going with his school stuff.

Amazing audio and great Story

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Iggy Toma does beautifully in bringing these three men to life. You feel their anxiety on trying this new dynamic as well as the hope for something lasting. You never lose who is speaking or whose pov you are in. A well done adaptation to already beautiful story.

Miles has always felt less than and has settled for whatever he can get, not thinking he could ever have true happiness. Cosimo & Emmett are happily married and yet know someone is needed to properly balance their power dynamic. When they realize their daughter is emotionally abusing Miles, they take him in til he finds a place to live. What none of these men are expecting that Miles is that missing piece. EM does a brilliant job in balancing kink along with bringing a third into an established relationship. That is not saying these men do not have their issues with this, but they were done in a beautiful way that you understood why each men was feeling how they were feeling and had open communication whenever the need rose. With any new relationship their will be growing pains, and all three showed the maturity in understanding this and allowing each other the grace to fix the issues before it impacted the relationship to severely. Now, the handling of the ex/daughter was done so well that you felt for each and every one of these characters. You felt the impact of those choices and how it impacted each of them differently. Overall, it is a well balacned story of understanding kink and the new dynamics of adding a third into an established relationship.

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