Game Changer (Vancouver Orcas Book 2) by Amy Aislin

Author:Amy Aislin [Aislin, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-17T18:30:00+00:00

Charlie had no idea what he was doing, but he was going with it.

Blair was still his boss.

And Charlie still had feelings for him.

Those things were still true, but he wasn’t going to obsess over them any longer. Whatever happened, happened.

“Make yourself at home,” Blair said as they stepped into his house. “I’m just going to take a quick shower. I probably smell like bologna.”

Charlie leaned towards him and sniffed. “Bologna and pickles.”

“Ugh.” Grimacing, Blair headed for the stairs, crutches squeaking on the floor. “Five minutes max.” He shot a teasing grin over his shoulder. “There’s wine in the fridge if you want some.”

Shaking his head, Charlie went into the kitchen, passing a fort made out of bedsheets on the way, washed his hands, and got the food out of the fridge. He’d already prepped the ground beef and rice mixture, so he sliced the tops off the peppers and got them ready to boil before he stuffed them.

It was a little odd cooking for the two of them in Blair’s kitchen. Charlie was used to prepping meals for Blair or using the oven for his baked goods. Making something for the two of them felt intimate in a way that simple food prep didn’t. They’d had eggs together that one time, of course, but that had been different. Simply two friends having a meal together.

This . . . this was something else, though Charlie couldn’t explain what that something was.

A gust of wind rattled the windowpanes, and he moved to Blair’s back door. The door was solid wood, but there was a slim window to its left that looked out onto a shared courtyard that was essentially a twenty-foot-wide alley between Blair’s row of townhouses and the one behind him. Each house had a concrete-enclosed garden plot that was barely three feet by three feet. In the middle of the alley, a walkway done in alternating rose and grey pavers went from one end to the other. Right now, it was empty, but Blair had once told him that everyone set out patio furniture in the summer, and there were frequent neighbourhood barbecues and socials.

It sounded fun and lively. By contrast, the most interesting thing that happened at Charlie’s apartment building was the Robbin kid’s pet lizard getting loose at least once a week.

Across the alley, the house facing Blair’s had planted some kind of bonsai tree-type thing in their little garden, and it swayed dangerously in the wind. Above, clouds broiled, dark and threatening. Weather forecasters had been warning the South Coast about this storm for three days, although from what Charlie had read, it wasn’t supposed to hit until sometime overnight.

Seemed it was getting an early start. The turbulent weather pattern matched the turbulence in Charlie’s belly. Rain drops pelted the ground for only a few seconds before the skies opened up, bucketing down in a loud gush, the wind slamming it against the windows.

“Is that freezing rain?” Blair asked, coming up behind him and making Charlie’s belly churn faster.

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