The enemies-to-lovers queer Victorian romance follow-up to Don't Want You Like a Best Friend, in which a young lord and a second son clash, but find themselves thrust together again and again by their meddling cousins. That man is, without a doubt, the absolute most obnoxious Bobby Mason is sick of being second best born the spare, never trusted with family responsibility, never expected to amount to much. He's hungry to contribute something that matters, while all around him his peers are squandering their political and financial power, coasting through life. Which is exactly why he can't stand the new Viscount Demeroven. insufferable James Demeroven, just come of age and into the Viscountcy, knows that he is a disappointment. Keeping his head down and never raising anyone's expectations is how he is survived life with his stepfather. To quiet, careful James, Bobby Mason is a blazing comet in his endless night, even more alive than he was at Oxford when James crushed on him from afar. But Mason is also brash and recklessly unapologetic, destined to shatter the fragile safety of James s world. Worst of all, he keeps rubbing James s failures in his face, hottest man to ever walk the ton. They can barely get through a single conversation without tensions boiling over.