Hook, Line, and Sinker (Flirting with the Zodiac Book 1) by Cherry Pickett

Author:Cherry Pickett [Pickett, Cherry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: science fiction, lgbtq fiction, gay romance
Publisher: Ink & Bleed
Published: 2020-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Lawrence was waiting for them at a booth at the sushi place, and they slid in across from him. He grinned broadly at them. “’Bout time you guys got here,” he said.

“Sorry,” Ty said, and Val followed up with, “Ty was trying on bras.”

“Bras?” Lawrence sounded confused, even as Ty elbowed his supposed best friend. “What for?”

Val gestured to her chest, and Lawrence colored.

“Do you mind?!” Ty snapped.

“Oh, c’mon, Laz’s seen ’em, right?”

“Seen what?” If Ty’s crimson face didn’t answer the question, Lawrence’s confusion certainly did.

Val frowned, gesturing with her chopsticks in boredom. “What, does he keep his shirt on while you’re banging?”

Lawrence turned pink, and Ty scowled at her. She frowned. “You … do have sex, right?”

“It’s none of your business, Val.”

She groaned. “Please tell me you banged the night of the reception.”

“Valerie.”

“You two got married! What’s the point of being married if you aren’t gonna screw each other?”

“Menus,” the waitress said, sliding the paper across the table at them, along with a sidelong look at Val.

Lawrence laughed and broke his chopsticks. “I thought you thought we were married anyway?”

“We didn’t screw then,” Ty huffed.

“Are you telling me you two fucked once and made a baby and that’s it?”

“It was more than once,” Lawrence murmured into his plate.

Val groaned in frustration. “Okay, no, you two aren’t allowed to do this. You can’t be friend-married, then get actual-married and not upgrade to regular boning!”

“Why are you so obsessed with my sex life?” Ty asked. Lawrence nodded, even as he was scribbling down their usual order.

Val eyed them both, her look calculating. “You both know you can’t make another baby until this one is born, right?”

“Val.”

“I get it, it was an accident, but you don’t need to be scared of screwing because—”

“It wasn’t an accident,” Lawrence said very quietly, very firmly.

Val blinked a couple of times and lowered her chopsticks. “But … Ty said …”

“I didn’t say anything,” Ty gritted out.

Val glanced between the two of them, clearly trying to calculate something. She rolled her tongue around, twiddled her chopsticks. “Not an accident,” she murmured.

“Completely intentional,” Lawrence said, and Ty wanted to sink through the floor when he said it.

Val nodded a couple of times, then looked at the table. “Well,” she said, “that doesn’t fix anything.”

“Huh?”

“If you both wanted each other bad enough to have a baby, then why the hell aren’t you two still boning?!” She looked ready to murder Lawrence with a chopstick, when the waitress conveniently swung by again, yelling, “Rainbow roll!”

She stared at them, then left the dish on the table and walked away muttering something under her breath. Val melted back into her seat. Lawrence relaxed. “Ty’s, uh, helping … with something.”

The silver-haired man shot him a nervous look. Ty glared at him. Great cover. Lawrence was going to be shit at business if he couldn’t learn to at least halfway lie.

Val scoffed. “Seems like he’s doing more than helping,” she sneered, and Ty smacked her, barking, “What’s that supposed to mean?!” before Lawrence could say anything more.

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