Fish Out of Water by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63477-379-9
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2016-07-28T22:00:00+00:00

MAIL DONE, and it was nearly seven o’clock. Ellery checked his e-mail, determined there wasn’t anything he couldn’t work on from Jackson’s kitchen, and headed off down J Street. Instead of making the snaking left at Elvas, though, he kept going to Power Inn and got off on American River Drive.

Jackson looked around at the Better Homes and Gardens–style suburbs, clearly uncomfortable. “You live here?”

“Yup.” Ellery loved his house. It was about the size of Jackson’s duplex, both halves put together—both bedrooms and the living room were vast and spacious. His mother had flown out to decorate, and she had exquisite taste. She also, for all her overbearing nightmare social skills, loved her baby boy.

It looked like a tasteful showplace, with dark burgundy walls, oxblood paneling on the floors and olive throw rugs. Masculine and understated, the furniture all matched—Italian leather in black, with ebony coffee table and end tables, it was all top-of-the-line and comfortable. If Ellery had actually had enough of a social life to have people over, they’d have been suitably impressed.

Hell, his last boyfriend had offered to live in the guest bedroom even after they broke up, but since Ellery suspected Clint had cheated on him in there, he’d declined.

Ellery wanted Jackson to see his house. He didn’t think the elegance would impress him, but maybe the permanence would. This was not where you took one-night stands. The bedrooms were too far apart for anyone to hear you if you called out in your dreams—you’d have to sleep in the same bed for comfort.

Ellery really wanted them to sleep in the same bed.

With a certain reluctance, Jackson followed him in through the front door.

“You should have just dropped me off at my place,” he said, prowling into the sunken living room and sniffing reluctantly at the potpourri the housekeeper left out. “We both have work to do tonight—”

“And it will be easier if we’re in the same room,” Ellery said cheerfully. “C’mon. I’ll let you pick out my suit for tomorrow.”

Jackson sent him a glare that could have boiled diamonds, and Ellery smiled pleasantly into the face of it.

“Besides,” Ellery continued like that glare had been an actual sentence, “I like your company.”

Jackson gave a short bark of disbelief. “My company could get you killed.”

Oh yeah. That. Ellery had managed to forget for an entire fifteen minutes that they’d had a near miss not two hours ago. Apparently Jackson wasn’t going to let him forget for a longer stretch.

“What did Jade say?” he asked soberly, gesturing for Jackson to follow him at the same time.

Jackson sighed and followed, but Ellery could swear he heard a rumble on the way up the stairs. “She said the plates belonged to an SUV that was supposedly junked two years ago after a collision—so they stole them from the trashed vehicle, which is pretty canny, actually, but starting to piss me off. Damn. You really do need more traffic in here, Ellery. It’s pretty swank.”

Ellery preened. “See? Yeah, my mother decorated.

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