It's Simple, Simon by Lee Brazil

Author:Lee Brazil [Brazil, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781771011297
Publisher: Dragon Moon Press
Published: 2012-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

PI 2 at the mall was a smaller scale version of The Pieman bakery-style restaurants. It was more of a fast food place, and it really wasn’t the place that Simon had planned to have this conversation, but Chase had just asked him something that shocked him into silence and made the conversation imperative. He pushed the plate with the half-eaten piece of pie away. Not that the blueberry and custard pie wasn’t melt-in-your-mouth amazing, it was. It was just that the sudden lurch of his stomach made eating impossible. He lifted his cup of Dr. Pepper to his lips and took a long draw on the straw, trying to gather his thoughts. Only one thing was clear.

“Chase, I can’t move in with you.” He hadn’t had a clue that Chase was even considering such a thing. They’d been together a lot this week, but this was out of the blue. Nice as it sounded, as appealing as the idea of waking up in bed with Chase every day was, playing and fucking and laughing together, it wasn’t possible.

“Why not? You’re still staying with your parents. You can just as easily stay with me while you look for work, and we’ll be able to spend more time together. I’m not going to begrudge you the expenses for a few months while you look for work.” Chase swapped pie plates with him, and Simon found himself looking at a thick creamy chocolate silk pie. He didn’t want it either, so he shoved it back to Chase, who raised a brow but continued eating the blueberry pie.

Whoa. He sat back in the wrought iron chair in the food court and stared blankly at Chase. He liked Chase, maybe even still loved him. He’d certainly enjoyed the week he’d spent hanging out with Chase, meeting his friends, his employees, seeing his six restaurants. But the assumption that he’d give up his extremely lucrative high-ranking position with Bank of SoCal and move back to Denver was a bit much. “Chase, I can’t quit my job. I just got a promotion.”

Chase scowled, bite of blueberry pie halfway to his mouth. “I thought we’d put this pretense behind us, Simon. You’re back here, out of work, and I want you to stay. You can find work here as easily as you can in California.”

“I don’t need to find work.” The awkwardness of this moment was his just desserts for thinking he could just accept Chase’s declaration that he “knew all about it”. Confession time was upon him.

Chase beamed. Now what had he said to put that joy on the man’s face? “You’re right. You don’t have to. I won’t lie. It would make me perfectly happy for you to just stay home. I like the idea of getting home to find you waiting there for me, you know?”

“I never said that!” Where the fuck had Chase gotten the idea he was unemployed? They’d covered all this ground a week ago. “I’m not a leech, to live off my friends and family.

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