This Might Hurt

One second can change everything.

I met him on the worst day of my life—the desperate boy with a gun and the most brilliant smile I’d ever seen. We saved each other’s lives and then walked away, because a hitchhiking criminal and one of the richest men in the world can’t possibly be made for each other.

I’m a void, silenced by my power-hungry family and pushed into an arranged marriage like the obedient pawn I am. I’ve given up hoping for anything more.

He’s an uncontrolled explosion, a lost man with a shattered moral compass who would do anything for redemption. He refuses to give up hope, even if it breaks him.

So when I come up with a wild, impossible revenge plan, there’s only one person I look for. One person unhinged enough to say yes when I ask him to marry me and ruin my family’s business deal. He can teach a good boy how to do bad things. He already owns me, body and soul.

The problem is, we’re both too broken to know when to stop. Our hearts are angry and possessive and foolish. Now that we’re in too deep, I realize we only have one chance to build the kind of love that rewrites the damage they passed down to us.

A dark contemporary M/M romance featuring bratty soulmates, an unhinged grumpy/sunshine couple looking for revenge, found family, and breaking cycles of generational trauma.

Contains difficult subject matter and unhealthy character dynamics. Please visit the author's website for full content warnings.

©2025 Riley Nash (P)2025 Riley Nash

Jude & Andrew 🖤

Riley Nash is so fricking good at writing characters that year you heart out. Jude and Andrew are just the next in his collection of beautiful sad boys. I absolutely love this story and how much safety and comfort they find in each other. The narration was fantastic!

This book did not disappoint!

Incredible writing, angsty characters, mental health rep, broken bbs, and high heat are all things I have come to expect from this author. This book did not disappoint! The scream I scrumpt when I was able to devour another Riley Nash could be heard within a five mile radius, I am sure! I adored getting to know these two MCs, and was made to feel so many feels through the entire story! Anger, frustration, curiosity, heart ache, and so much love! Definitely give this one a shot!

one of my top listens of 2025

Loved it. Such a unique listen. Great narration. highly recommend. Settle into the character development and enjoy the ride.

Riley writes the best broken boys! 🥺

Thank you Riley Nash for providing me a gifted copy of this audiobook. All opinions are my own.

𝙏𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩. 𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙜𝙤. 𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙄 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙.

Oh my heart!

Riley just writes the best broken boys, and I think these two have just become my new favorites. 🥺

After one of the most chaotic meet cutes I’ve ever read 👀, I was immediately all in on these two. Andrew, the heir to billion dollar empire, and Jude, struggling out on his own, with his heart left back at home. Through the pages of the book, they find, and save each other, and I pretty much cried through the last several chapters. 😭 (But, like, in a good way! 🙌)

Their connection is instant, and only made stronger as the book goes on. I loved the marriage of convenience, the found family, and just every interaction between these two.

Their story is chaos, and connection, and learning to love and be accepted, and their HEA was just so beautiful, especially after all that they went through to get to it. 🥹

Audiobook notes: Two new to me narrators but I thought they were both so good. There were several sections where they got me tearing up with their emotional performances. I initially read this story in ebook form, but would absolutely recommend this audio as the narrators really nailed the characters.

What this book is giving:
✅ Contemporary MM Romance
✅ Hurt/Comfort
✅ Unhinged Grumpy/Sunshine
✅ Marriage of Convenience
✅ Found Family
✅ Mental Illness Rep
✅ Chaotic Meet Cute

Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
🌶️🌶️🌶️½ / 5

Performances blew me away

Because you’re written in my DNA. You always have been.”

Jude and Andrew, two broken and lost men with deep family issues, are thrust together by fate on one cataclysmic day. Only to have it be the best thing that neither saw coming. They broke my heart, their stories unique, but their pain relatable, tangible. Both are layered, nuanced, flawed characters who I loved and rooted for from the very first pages. The performances were raw and beautiful. Both narrators had me in a chokehold. Perfectly paced and captivating.

I literally stayed up all night because I couldn’t stop listening. Truly one of the best audios I’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing.