Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #secret relationship(2)

The first story with the mafia boss was interesting. The seme was a 35 year old stylish but intimidating man who was high with the Italian mafia in NY. He fell almost immediately for the uke who strongly reminded him of his first love. He was protective of the uke and ready to defy his clan for him. The uke was a young Japanese guy not having much luck with his college entrance exams. He went to NY for a break only to be robbed of his passport and luggage and running from thugs..right into the arms of a mafia boss. The uke was sweet, a little naive and very much in love with this older man who carries (and uses) a gun. A man who lives an ocean away. There was a second story that started promisingly with 2 doctors who had known each other since middle school. The richer boy always bullied the other and it seemed like it may be a bully to lovers romance. But as adults he raped the uke and there was zero consent or even affection felt by the uke. Even when he realised the seme doctor had always had feelings for him, the story just ended. Tbh I am ok with that because I hate rape to love stories. In my mind the uke guy will never go near him or forgive him. Let it end there.horrible story.

Freshman high school student Ryouichi’s mother is about to get married. Ryouichi has mixed feelings about it, especially about his new step brother. Those feelings become even more tumultuous when he gets formally introduced to the 25yo office worker he went home with when drunk. Now the temperamental teenager has to deal with his confusing feelings for Shintarou; his step brother and the man who took him home thinking he was 19. The story is cute. Ryouichi is all angsty adolescence; a young man who is struggling with his mom’s new happiness and with his feelings for the older brother now in his life