Lover Unexpected: Manlove Edition by Brochu Rebecca & Williams K. & Rivers Penelope & Lane Shawn & Renarde Giselle & Lee Chrissie & Michael Sean & Bowman Alex & Day Xondra & Leaf Erin M

Author:Brochu, Rebecca & Williams, K. & Rivers, Penelope & Lane, Shawn & Renarde, Giselle & Lee, Chrissie & Michael, Sean & Bowman, Alex & Day, Xondra & Leaf, Erin M. [Brochu, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 2012-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

The strange thing is that it’s like Dylan flipped some kind of switch because after he makes one playful jab at Tyler about them being married suddenly it’s everywhere. Literally everywhere. Over the next couple of days they get a coupon in the mail for a honeymoon suite in Waikiki that they can’t use because they’re not actually married, the diner they normally have lunch at together gives them a meal on the house in congratulations, and even Tyler’s mailman takes the time to invite them to a gay friendly couples retreat.

Dylan and Tyler can only stare in bemusement as each new situation pops up, both of them too stunned to actually deny the change to their relationship status. It dies down after another week or so, a week in which Dylan doesn’t move back into his now fixed apartment and both of them studiously ignore that fact for a while longer. They have a routine that they’re both comfortable with and they’re loathe to break it over a silly little thing like Dylan moving back into his own place.

Dylan comes back to the house one day from a rare errand that he’s actually run on his own to find the living room filled with boxes and totes and various bits of odds and ends that look suspiciously familiar. Like familiar in the sense that they belong to him, belong in his apartment, the apartment that’s explicitly not here, the one he’s not been back to in days now.

He keeps his mouth closed as he wanders towards the spare room, the room that’s normally filled to the brim with boxes with the door firmly shut. The door is open now, and Tyler’s lean form can be easily spotted in the middle of the amazingly clean floor, standing beside the bed that had previously been packed away in Dylan’s storage closet because of a serious lack of space, a broom in one hand and a dust pan in the other.

“So I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that you were feeling industrious today and decided to do some spring cleaning and that there’s a perfectly good explanation as to why everything I own is currently sitting in your living room.”

Tyler jumps and spins around, his expression sheepish and his smile overly innocent in a way that instantly puts Dylan on guard. His suspicions aren’t helped by the way Tyler immediately starts talking a million miles an hour like he does sometimes when he’s nervous.

“Yeah, about that … well, I figured it’d make more sense like this, you know? I mean you already live here and you hate that apartment anyways and we get along just fine so I figured, yeah, this would work out alright.”

Dylan has a pretty good idea about what he’s going on about, but he likes it when he gets the rare chance to make Tyler sweat so he decides to draw the moment out.

“What exactly will work out alright, Tyler Wilky?”

He doesn’t