{"id":24931,"date":"2025-09-18T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24931"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:12:04","slug":"for-better-or-worse-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24931","title":{"rendered":"For Better or Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/for-better-or-worse-20?sId=d96c5934-755f-457f-95e2-dcb72e5dceae&#038;ssId=vriS6mMuh4MEV4z2Z15vn&#038;cPos=17\"><em>For Better or Worse<\/em><\/a> (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/Cooper_R.php\">R. Cooper<\/a> (Montgomery Firefighters #2)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/for-better-or-worse-20?sId=d96c5934-755f-457f-95e2-dcb72e5dceae&#038;ssId=vriS6mMuh4MEV4z2Z15vn&#038;cPos=17\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/For-Better-or-Worse.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"For Better or Worse\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/For-Better-or-Worse.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/For-Better-or-Worse.jpg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jimmy had been a boxer during his years of community college, and it showed in his face and how he moved. He was graceful but rarely still, and he watched everything as if a punch might come from any direction at any time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>You should feel safe to be yourself around anyone you love, family or friends or&#8230; anyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Everything looks like friendly teasing if you don\u2019t know what sexual tension is. I get confused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Javier Ramirez, Jimmy Rizzo, Uncle Peyo, Bacio, Elena, Scott Yun, Henry Cole Porter, Tiny \/ Romano, Mary Garcia, Lewis, Roger, Chuck, Don Preston<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Better or Worse (2017) R. Cooper (Montgomery Firefighters #2) Jimmy had been a boxer during his years of community college, and it showed in his face and how he moved. He was graceful but rarely still, and he watched everything as if a punch might come from any direction at any time. You should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,189,897,292,196,148,41,56],"tags":[50,544,200],"class_list":["post-24931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-ace","category-contemporary","category-ebook","category-novella","category-queer","category-reread","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-mm","tag-r-cooper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6u7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14269,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14269","url_meta":{"origin":24931,"position":0},"title":"For Better or Worse","author":"Michelle","date":"May 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"For Better or Worse (2017) R. 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