Red Hot Daddy: An Mpreg Romance

Red Hot Daddy is a mpreg story of old friends, who became enemies after a traumatic event, getting a second chance at love after years apart. It was written by Aiden and Austin Bates, and narrated by Barney Parkwynne.

Before I get started in the actual review I just wanted to confess that this was a tough book for me to listen to. One of the reasons it was tough was purely personal. I was in an abusive relationship with someone from La Junta, Colorado for many years. So, when La Junta was mentioned in the book, it was triggering as hell for me. Despite that, I did my very best to listen to this book without judgment to give an honest review for the authors and the narrator.

Tommy Laurence is an omega tattoo artist living in La Junta, Colorado. He goes back to his childhood hometown of Golden Colorado to see about his family home after his father dies. He would have just left the house and his father to rot, but the home belonged to Tommy’s deceased mom who he loved very much before cancer took her. The MCs run into each other when Tommy comes back to Golden to deal with his mom’s house. A fire starts at the hotel where Tommy is staying and Damien is one of the firefighters to respond.

Tommy has a lot of painful history in Golden that he’d rather not face ever again.
A huge part of that painful history is his alpha ex-best friend/ex-boyfriend, Damien King. They were inseparable until Damien was attacked as a teenager. Damien didn’t want anything to do with Tommy after that because of a misunderstanding. The misunderstanding caused their friendship to dissolved in a bad way. Damien had to go to California for medical treatment after the attack and Tommy fled Golden to settle in La Junta. For ten years they didn’t see or speak to each other. Damien eventually returned to Golden and became a firefighter. Meanwhile, Tommy opened a tattoo shop and settled into life on his own.

Things are bad between them. At first, I thought Red Hot Daddy was going to be about Damien pining after his omega ex. I thought he’d be the forgiving alpha that didn’t want his omega boyfriend to leave him. I was so wrong! The miscommunication and misunderstandings between the MCs basically ruined everything for them. Because of that, Damien holds what happened in the past against Tommy. It was Tommy who wanted to apologize for what happened and make amends.

I don’t want to go into too much detail about what happened because it’s obvious that the authors wanted to leave what happened until later in the book. I’ll just say that if the two men had talked, they could have saved themselves ten years of pain and suffering. I was frustrated that information was kept from Damien which caused him to hold a grudge. I was also irritated by the fact that Tommy could have just spoken up before and after the attack but he held his tongue. Yes, I understand why he didn’t say anything. I just didn’t like it.

Them coming back together was a little iffy for me. It hurt my heart to see Tommy being used as a repeated one night stand, especially the first time! It felt like Damien was just using Tommy because he was a warm hole even though Damien still had so much anger toward Tommy. I hate people using others, so that was just crappy in my opinion. What hurt, even more, was Tommy becoming pregnant and Damien saying he couldn’t trust Tommy that the baby was his because of the past. Seriously?

I don’t know! This was just an alright story for me. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible either. I was mostly able to listen and enjoy the book, but I won’t read or listen to it again. If you’re into Aiden and Austin Bates, I’d say go ahead a give this a read. You guys might enjoy it more if you can see past the problems I had.