Length12h 57m
About this audiobook
He knows how to keep a man alive. I know how to make a life look like it was never meant to be lived.
Mateo is twenty-three, a doctor with quick hands, a quicker mouth, and absolutely no patience for men who think money can solve everything. When a wounded young man arrives needing treatment away from the hospital, Mateo lays down his rules. No guns in his room. No questions about the family. No lies that put his patients at risk.
Then Rafa walks through the door.
Thirty-five, controlled, and carrying the kind of history that makes people lower their voices, Rafa has spent years learning how to survive without asking anyone for tenderness. Mateo has known him for years, long enough to recognize the small silences, the careful gestures, and the feelings neither of them has been brave enough to name.
But caring for a man like Rafa means stepping into a world where every kindness can become a debt.
When Rafa secretly pays what Mateo's family owes and tries to repair the damage left behind by his own choices, Mateo sees the truth beneath the generosity. Help can be another form of control. A debt is not forgiveness. And loving someone does not mean surrendering the right to choose.
As violence closes in around the Ibarra family, old secrets surface, loyalties turn dangerous, and the past demands an answer. Rafa must face what he has done, including the blood on his hands, while Mateo must decide whether the man he loves can become someone he can trust. Neither can make that decision for the other.
Because some wounds cannot be paid off. Some apologies arrive too late. And sometimes the most dangerous thing a ruthless man can do is tell the truth and leave the choice in someone else's hands.
In a city that keeps its own accounts, love is not a clean slate. It is the choice to stop making the same debt someone else's burden.
Tender Damage is a standalone dark MM mafia romance featuring an age-gap relationship, a guarded older man, a sharp-witted younger doctor, criminal family loyalties, hard-won tenderness, and a love story that makes its characters face the cost of their choices.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length12 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 9, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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