A Very Good Boy

Fifteen years ago my brother landed in prison. Not the first time… for either of us. It was just a fluke that I happened to be living free when he got sent up. I probably would have been right back there with him before long if not for the fact that the state dumped his four-year-old son on me.

I hadn’t really paid any attention to the boy before the day they handed him over to me, but the moment David became mine, everything fucking changed.

Those big gray eyes and sweet, shy little smiles? There’s nothing on this earth that would be worth losing those, so I went straight, stayed on the right side of the law, and raised my nephew as my own.

But I didn’t raise him soft, with hugs and smiles and all that shit. I wouldn’t even know how since it wasn’t the way I was raised, either. 

But my Davito is a good boy, and he doesn’t need to hear me say it to know it’s true. He doesn’t need me to tell him how important he is to me, because I’m here when I could have walked away, and actions speak louder than words.

But then, thanks to a few private moments caught on a security camera, I find out that maybe he does need to hear that shit after all. I discover that he actually responds very fucking well to a little praise and encouragement. 

So well that giving it to him becomes kinda addicting…

A Very Good Boy is a 33,000-word erotic m/m gay romance and the second book in the Inmates of Pengrass Penitentiary series. You can find more books by Becca Vale on Smashwords and get a free one by subscribing to her newsletter.